Carroll County Democratic Central Committee Meeting Minutes

April 12, 2018

Meeting was held in the large Meeting Room of the
Westminster Branch of the CCPL and was called to order by
Don West, Chair, at 7:00 pm.

Committee members in attendance
Don West, Mitch Edelman, Corynne Courpas, Frank Rammes,
Charles Harrison, Tom Scanlan, Dorothy Scanlan, Anita Riley,
Zach Hands

Other attendees
Guests: Circuit Court Judge Candidates: Maria Oesterreicher,
Richard Titus (Incumbent)

Pamela Zappardino, Christian Orr, Paul Johnson, Raquel
Walsh, Kate Sanner, Katherine Shaw, Judy Milliken, Paul
Johnson

Chair's Report
Executive meeting on March 19; lengthy, not much to report.
A lot of talk about rules. Candidate filings closed. We did
not add anyone new. State meeting on May 31, 2018; Central
Committee candidates should attend as guests; should be a
number of elected officials and candidates there.  Meeting
at Community Media Center with new head, Richard Turner and
head of Republican RCC. Thinking of attempting an LTE-style
commentary where anyone could come in and speak for three
minutes on camera. Will not provide coverage for the CD1
forum. Do we want to have Katherine Berry (head of CC Board
of Elections) attend a meeting? Yes-after the primary. A
Central Committee member should attend the public meetings
of the CC Board of Elections.

Brief speeches by the two Circuit Court Judge candidates

Secretary's Report
Motion to approve report by Anita R., 2nd by Corynne C.;
vote unanimous.  
                                                            
                                                            
          
Treasurer's Report
Treasurer's report was sent out via email to the members and
shows a current balance of $6,547.96.  Motion to approve
report by Frank R., 2nd by Zach H.; vote unanimous.  

Club Reports
Carroll County Democratic Club: At the April meeting the
guest was Tim Hickman who has written a book on how to win
elections. Gave a good talk; book seems to have some good
hints. Judge Titus has been invited to the May 9th meeting.
The two District 3 commissioner candidates, Maria Warburton
and Doug Mathias, have been invited to the May meeting and
have accepted. Annual picnic will be July 29 at the Union
Mills/Silver Run Lions Club park. Candidates will be
invited.

South Carroll Democratic Club: No report

Young Dems: Zach and Emily will be speaking to the
Democratic Club at Westminster High School on April 24th.
Make a pitch for interns.

Intern Report: Lily has a job and her time to intern for the
Central Committee has ended. Kara will continue.

VOCAL: Ted Zaleski spoke about the county budget.
    
Carroll CAN: starting a sub group that will focus on
education. Meeting Sunday at the Westminster branch of the
CCPL. Jesse Colvin, candidate for CD1, will speak.

Committee Reports

Local Politics: Conservative Parent Alliance.

Annapolis: No report

Bylaws: amending the state bylaws to address gender
equality; fine tune the language. 

All other discussions tabled; no new updates

Events

Western MD Democratic Summit: is sold out. If you are going
you will need to pay $35. 

Victory dinner: Have 22 ads so far. Deadline for ads is
April 30th. Keynote speaker is Brian Frosh. Need silent
auction donations. Entertainment?? Lifetime award to John
and Jean Lewis for their service to the NAACP.

CD1 Forum: May 17 at the Finksburg library. All candidates
will be in attendance. Talk about live-streaming it.

Fall Breakfast: October 6

Old Business

Candidate Training:  It has been decided that we do not need
to have a second candidate training.

MDP Resistance and Renewal: moving on to Phase 2 of reaching
out to voters. Targeting registered voters who did not vote
in 2014. Issues focus is education and health care. If we
make 86 contacts by June 3rd, we will receive a $500
stipend.

Host a day of action where central committee members come
together and phone bank or knock on doors.

New Business

Emails to CCDCC candidates: selected emails going to CCDCC
candidates
Use of our email list by candidates: we are not giving out
our list
Frederick Democratic Party Gala: Event is May 14. Ad has
been sent. Also need to send one to Washington County when
requested.
Voter Registration: follow up with CCC. Talk to progressive
student union at McDaniel. Easy training to be able to do
voter registration.
Headquarters: need to start looking for a space. Old Mission
store is vacant.

Announcements
The next regular meeting for the CCDCC will be Thursday,
June 12, starting at 7:00pm, at the Westminster library.

Meeting adjourned at 9:05pm.

Respectfully submitted,
Dorothy Scanlan, Recording Secretary 
CCDCC