Carroll County Democratic Central Committee Meeting Minutes

January 11, 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, Anita Riley, Frank
Rammes, Charles Harrison, Tom Scanlan, Dorothy Scanlan

Other attendees
Kara Adamcik, Lily Gavin (interns)

Guest: 
Eva Lewis from State Party- time to gear up for 2018
elections. Want to win all 24 jurisdictions. Recruit,
canvass, phone banking. Tracking program to follow Hogan and
others. Website: traindemocrats.org  elewis@mddems.org,
443-603-5669
Christian Orr
Jesse Colvin, candidate for CD1- spoke and gave his
background and answered questions.

Chair's Report
Carroll Can meets this Sunday at 1:30 at the Eldersburg
library. Don is presenting about the 2018 elections.
Executive meeting was November 20th. Candidate filing is
February 27. 

Secretary's Report
Motion to approve report by Frank R., 2nd by Mitch E.; vote
unanimous.  
                                                            
                                                            
          
Treasurer's Report
Treasurer's report was sent out via email to the members and
shows a current balance of $7,826.89.  Bill to host website
is $700. Motion to approve report by Anita R., 2nd by Frank
R.; vote unanimous.  

Club Reports
Carroll County Democratic Club: next meeting is in March.
Thinking of inviting filed candidates. April's speaker is
Tim Hickman who is coming with copies of his book. May not
have a May meeting in lieu of a potential candidate forum.

South Carroll Democratic Club: No report

Young Dems: No report

Committee Reports
VOCAL: hosted an opioid session which was very successful.
They are also still focused on the ethics issue.    
Carroll CAN:
Local Politics: 
Communications: We are over 1,000 ''likes'' on FB. Fabian will
give us messages to post on Twitter.
VAN:  No update.

Old Business
Western MD PAC: 
No update. The summit is still on schedule for April 20th
and 21st. they are asking that we will be table sponsors.
$700-full page ad and eight tickets. Motion made and carried
to purchase a table.

Victory dinner: 
May 10, 2018. Time to start publicizing.

Holiday dinner:  
profits to go to club. Hopefully we can give another
scholarship this year. Motion made and approved unanimously.

New Business
Candidate filings: should every spot have a candidate? We
still need to fill some slots, especially commissioner and
state legislature. The chair and treasurer of a central
committee cannot run for another office. We cannot share VAN
with candidates. They must purchase access to it themselves.
The cost is $2,500.

Martin Luther King event: NAACP breakfast Saturday January
27.

Resistance and Renewal outreach: only our interns did the
work. Very few contacts were made. Many of the phone numbers
in VAN did not work.

Candidate Recruitment & Training:  Date is Saturday February
17th from 9-1 in the large room of the Westminster library. 
Corynne, Anita, Frank, and Tom are the sub-committee.
Campaign finance, existing candidates, VAN preview,
marketing & social media, fundraising, demographics & voter
turnout, dealing with endorsements, platforms to help
candidates.  Perhaps do two workshops, one pre-filing
deadline and another more nuts and bolts for declared
candidates. We should get refreshments. 

CD 1 Forum: Tentative plans: Finksburg library. Invite
Baltimore County voters.

Announcements
The next regular meeting for the CCDCC will be Thursday,
February 8, starting at 7:00 pm, at the Finksburg Library.

Meeting adjourned at 8:35pm.

Respectfully submitted,
Dorothy Scanlan, Recording Secretary 
CCDCC