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CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR NEW DNC POWER TEAM OF CHAIR, TOM PEREZ, AND DEPUTY CHAIR, KEITH ELLISON. THIS IS PROGRESS.

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March 3, 2017

Congressman and Deputy DNC Chair Keith Ellison Keynotes our 2017 Gala on Sunday, April 23

RESIST, RECLAIM, REVITALIZE

Greetings!

Now that the Perez/Ellison Team is in power at the DNC, we look forward to the roll-out of the resist, reclaim and revitalize movement within our party. WE, TOO, must continue to keep up the pace, not easing on our support, en masse, of a people-centered and progressive agenda. Please refer to our recent blog post on the "10 things" by Michael Moore (found here) and watch for future posts on our site and in our other social media outlets about immediate actions to resist, reclaim and revitalize right here in DuPage. Ask your friends to join the DPDC and get involved in an action group (see below). Arm-chair quarterbacking WILL NOT DO this time around.

Our great good fortune continues as we move within two months of our amazing annual gala this year featuring our new Deputy Chair of the DNC, Congressman Keith Ellison. Additionally, Action Groups, under the direction of our new Program Director, Dawnn Basaraba (see a piece from her below) are taking DuPage by storm doing everything from making a peace wall around an Islamic center to holding special events like "Behind the Veil" last Friday, from creating amazing media strategies to align our message and support our three 2018 goals to reaching out through weekly phone banks. PLEASE get involved. Did we mention that arm-chair quarterbacking will not do this time around?

We hope you will support both our, and the new DNC chairs', progressive agenda by joining us on April 23rd at the Carlisle in Lombard.

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AND NOW A WORD FROM OUR NEW

PROGRAM DIRECTOR, DAWNN BASARABA

My friends, I cannot tell you how thrilled and honored I am

to have been appointed Program

Director especially at this energized restart point of the Democratic Party of DuPage County. The tireless dedicated efforts of our past and present seasoned volunteers under Bob Peickert's, The Executive Committee's and Amy Rohrer's phenomenal and strategic leadership, have led us to this huge leap in growth and talent. Programs and systems are rolling out everyday and we are building bonds and partnerships with Action for a Better Tomorrow,Indivisible and other groups. Will Illinois Go Red? Not on our watch! 2017 is our year to build, grow and lay infrastructure. It hurts so good,knowing we are feeling the growing pains to win 2018 and beyond. We are the Protectors of this land and our fellow humans. I am delighted to introduce to you some new, and seasoned, leaders who have stepped up to share their time, talents, and treasure with us:

College & High School Youth Team: Derek Miller and Samantha Wilson

CommunicationsTeam: Dan Bailey, Amanda Recupio, Walt Zlotow

Country Board Team: Arlene Kendorski and Liz Chaplin

Data Analysis Team: Paul Farber

Elected Officials Liaison Team: Erin Crilly and Sana Singh

Election Protection Team: Janet Wagner and Justin Major

Executive Team: Bob Peickert, Dawnn Basaraba, Amy Rohrer, and Karen Hoffman

Gala Team: Michelle Gale and Eileen Steed

General Events Team: Paul Adams and Liz Ward

Google Suites Support Team: Cathy Clarkin, Trevor Torrence and Patrick Caruso

Graphics: Joe Costa, Tina Tyson-Dunne

Ground Team: Alex Franklin and Ben McAdams

Membership and Sponsorship: Bob Peickert

Office Volunteers Team: Carol Gabert, Susan Kasprowicz, and Laura Font

Phone Banking: Donna Conrad and Melina Kline

Strategy Team for PR: Suzanne Magnuson, Sara Kurganov and the leaders of the Communications, Graphics Social Media Teams

Social Media: Carrie Brasser and Kathy Errera

Votebuilder: Alfonso Gutierrez
CORRECTION FROM LAST WEEK!

Last week, we accidentally left out an important link in our chain of Action Groups: the people behind the Google Suites Tech support which has propelled us even farther than we imagined twice as quickly. Many thanks to Therese Jilek, Jessica Buttimer and Cathy Clarkin, who is the leader of the Tech group with Trevor Torrence and Patrick Caruso.

Here is what the Tech Team is up to and you can join them by writing to gsuitesupport@dupagedemocrats.com with JOIN TECH in the subject line:

The newly formed Tech Support team set up G-Suite for the Affinity Groups to help them collaborate and communicate. Tech Support continues to train volunteers in the implementation of G-Suite and is working toward assigning at least one Tech Support volunteer to each Affinity Group. The assignedTech Support volunteer will maintain online files, troubleshoot issues, and help craft technical solutions for affinity group leaders and members. Long term, we are working toward a more efficient way to gather and maintain volunteer contact information.

STILL HAVEN'T SIGNED UP TO BE A PART OF THIS AMAZING MOVEMENT?

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If you have not yet made a contribution to the Democratic Party of DuPage--$5/month is delightful--please do so now. If you have recently given, you should have or will be receiving your membership card in the mail soon and may use it to claim a discount on your ticket for our April Gala with Keith Ellison. We thank you for helping us grow our organization.