Anyone know when the Jerome (Grassroots) Project will be working?

For those of you who are attending the
Washoe County Democratic Convention
on Feb 23rd, here is some important info:


New Location is the Reno Events Center in Downtown Reno. 4th and Center Street.MAP

PLEASE PREREGISTER for this event! You can do so HERE. You can also Register at the County Party Office(1465 Terminal) or Web Site (washoedems.org) if you are planning to attend at a Delegate, an Alternate Delegate or Guest.

PLEASE PICK UP your credentials AHEAD of time. On Thursday and Friday( 21st and 22nd), Pre- Registered Convention attendees can pick up their Credentials and info at the County Party HQ. Early Pick up will save YOU from waiting in a HUGE line on Saturday morning, and will help the Party tremendously. Check Washoedems.org for times

Cheers and see you there!

As requested, here is the link to the Iowa Dem's Web page that will show the Results Thursday night, live, as they come in:
Iowa Results

Nevada will have a similar site on our big day, January 19th

And it has lots of good videos, too!
Check it out at:
Youtube.com

Check out this PBS website covering the Nevada Caucus
Caucus Countdown

A friend sent me this great link that will remind our President exactly what he swore to uphold:
Xmas Present for W

10. "Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?" --Florence, South Carolina, Jan. 11, 2000

9. "As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured." --on the No Child Left Behind Act, Washington, D.C., Sept. 26, 2007

8. "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." --Washington, D.C., Dec. 19, 2000

7. "I'm the decider, and I decide what is best. And what's best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the Secretary of Defense." --Washington, D.C.
April 18, 2006

6. "There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on --shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again." --Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002

5. "Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country." --Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004

4. "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." --Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004

3. "You work three jobs? ... Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." --to a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005

2. "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." --to FEMA director Michael Brown, who resigned 10 days later amid criticism over his handling of the Hurricane Katrina debacle, Mobile, Ala., Sept. 2, 2005

1. "My answer is bring them on." --on Iraqi insurgents attacking U.S. forces, Washington, D.C., July 3, 2003

Knowing the many questions about "How can I go to Denver as a delegate?", Ithought I'd post this NY Times item:

January 19, 2008
evada Democratic Party
Caucus (Closed)
33 delegates at stake
On Jan. 19, party caucuses meet in each precinct to choose delegates to county conventions. The delegates selected are not bound to any candidate. At the county conventions on Feb. 23, delegates to the state convention are chosen. They are not bound to any candidate. The state convention is April 18-20, during which delegates choose 25 of the 33 delegates to the national convention. Sixteen of the 25 delegates are allocated proportionally to presidential candidates based on the support for the candidates in each of the state�s three Congressional districts. Nine delegates are allocated to candidates based on the support among all of the delegates attending the convention. The remaining eight unpledged delegates are chosen from party leaders.

Source:New York Times 11/21/2007

The Nevada GOP has announced their plan to use Voting Machines at the Jan 19th Caucus. That seems rather strange to me.
Does anyone know if other Caucusing States use voting Machines ?

I will take the answer "off the air"

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Scary man. Scary.

And you should be paying attention!








Why Nevada is better then your "Busted old State"

*Fastest Growing State in the USA
*Most racially representive of 4 early State of US population
*Pro-Union Western State
*Ahead of Iowa in caucus preparation
*Nevada not made up of Cranky New Englanders
*As of 2 months ago, DEMS ountnumber GOP!
*Strong and newly developed Grassroots
*State GOP is broke and begging for spare change on Flamingo Ave
*Harry Reid is from here
And on the lighter side
*Legal Gambling(including sports betting
*No State personal income tax(thank you American Gamblers)
*Area 51 and the Exterestreal Highway
*Burning Man
*Lake Tahoe
*The Loneliest Highway in America
*Real Top Gun Acadamy is here(NAS Fallon
*Did I mention Reno and Las Vegas?

I guess the best thing about Nevada, as compaired to the other "early States" is that we have OTHER things going on here, besides politics

and stephen Colbert is not running in nv either

Happpy Nevada Day!

How to Pronounce NEVADA

Fascinating Facts about the U.S. Constitution


The U.S. Constitution has 4,400 words. It is the oldest and shortest written Constitution of any major government in the world."



Of the typographical errors in the Constitution, the misspelling of the word Pensylvania above the signers names is probably the most glaring.



Thomas Jefferson did not sign the Constitution. He was in France during the Convention, where he served as the U.S. minister. John Adams was serving as the U.S. minister to Great Britain during the Constitutional Convention and did not attend either.



The Constitution was penned by Jacob Shallus, a Pennsylvania General Assembly clerk, for a fee of $30 ($325.29 today). It was stored in various cities until 1952, when it was placed in the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C. During the daytime, pages one and four of the document are displayed in a bullet-proof case. The case contains helium and water vapor to preserve the papers quality. At night, the pages are lowered into a vault, behind five-ton doors that are designed to withstand a nuclear explosion. The entire Constitution is displayed only one day a year "September 17, the anniversary of the day the framers signed the document.



The Constitution does not set forth requirements for the right to vote. As a result, at the outset of the Union, only male property-owners could vote. African Americans were not considered citizens, and women were excluded from the electoral process. Native Americans were not given the right to vote until 1924.



James Madison, the father of the Constitution, was the first to arrive in Philadelphia for the Constitutional Convention. He arrived in February, three months before the convention began, bearing the blueprint for the new Constitution.



Of the forty-two delegates who attended most of the meetings, thirty-nine actually signed the Constitution. Edmund Randolph and George Mason of Virginia and Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts refused to sign due in part to the lack of a bill of rights.

When it came time for the states to ratify the Constitution, the lack of any bill of rights was the primary sticking point.

The Great Compromise saved the Constitutional Convention, and, probably, the Union. Authored by Connecticut delegate Roger Sherman, it called for proportional representation in the House, and one representative per state in the Senate (this was later changed to two.) The compromise passed 5-to-4, with one state, Massachusetts, divided.

Patrick Henry was elected as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, but declined, because he smelt a rat.

Because of his poor health, Benjamin Franklin needed help to sign the Constitution. As he did so, tears streamed down his face.

Gouverneur Morris was largely responsible for the wording of the Constitution, although there was a Committee of Style formed in September 1787.

The oldest person to sign the Constitution was Benjamin Franklin (81). The youngest was Jonathan Dayton of New Jersey (26).

When the Constitution was signed, the United States population was 4 million. It is now more than 300 million. Philadelphia was the nation largest city, with 40,000 inhabitants.

A proclamation by President George Washington and a congressional resolution established the first national Thanksgiving Day on November 26, 1789. The reason for the holiday was to give for the new Constitution.

The first time the formal term The United States of America was used was in the Declaration of Independence.

It took one hundred days to actually frame the Constitution.

There was initially a question as to how to address the President. The Senate proposed that he be addressed as Highness the President of the United States of America and Protector of their Liberties. Both the House of Representatives and the Senate compromised on the use of ���¢�¯�¿�½�¯�¿�½President of the United States.���¢�¯�¿�½�¯�¿�½

James Wilson originally proposed the President be chosen by popular vote, but the delegates agreed (after 60 ballots) on a system known as the Electoral College. Although there have been 500 proposed amendments to change it, this direct system of electing the president is still intact.

George Washington and James Madison were the only presidents who signed the Constitution.

In November of 1788 the Congress of the Confederation adjourned and left the United States without a central government until April 1789. That is when the first Congress under the new Constitution convened with its first quorum.

James Madison was the only delegate to attend every meeting. He took detailed notes of the various discussions and debates that took place during the convention. The journal that he kept during the Constitutional Convention was kept secret until after he died. It (along with other papers) was purchased by the government in 1837 at a price of $30,000 (that would be $503,675.99 today). The journal was published in 1840.

Although Benjamin Franklins mind remained active, his body was deteriorating. He was in constant pain because of gout and having a stone in his bladder, and he could barely walk. He would enter the convention hall in a sedan chair carried by four prisoners from the Walnut Street jail in Philadelphia.

As Benjamin Franklin left the Pennsylvania State House after the final meeting of the Constitutional Convention on September 17, 1787, he was approached by the wife of the mayor of Philadelphia. She was curious as to what the new government would be. Franklin replied, A republic, madam. If you can keep it.

On March 24, 1788, a popular election was held in Rhode Island to determine the ratification status of the new Constitution. The vote was 237 in favor and 2,945 opposed!

The members of the first Congress of the United States included 54 who were delegates to the Constitutional Convention or delegates to the various state-ratifying conventions. The number also included 7 delegates who opposed ratification.

Benjamin Franklin died on April 17, 1790, at the age of 84. The 20,000 mourners at his funeral on April 21, 1790, constituted the largest public gathering up to that time.

Vermont ratified the Constitution on January 10, 1791, even though it had not yet become a state.

The word democracy does not appear once in the Constitution.

There was a proposal at the Constitutional Convention to limit the standing army for the country to 5,000 men. George Washington sarcastically agreed with this proposal as long as a stipulation was added that no invading army could number more than 3,000 troops!

John Adams referred to the Constitution as the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen and George Washington wrote to the Marquis de Lafayette that It (the Constitution) appears to me, then, little short of a miracle.

The Pennsylvania State House (where the Constitutional Convention took place) was where George Washington was appointed the commander of the Continental Army in 1775 and where the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776. It was also where the Articles of Confederation were adopted as our first constitution in 1781.

During an event to celebrate the Constitutions Sesquicentennial in 1937, Harry F. Wilhelm recited the entire document through the newly added 21st Amendment from memory. He then obtained a job in the Sesquicentennial mailroom!

"...and probably just after giving a speech on the decline of Morality in America...

Zac Moyle, executive director of the Nevada Republican Party, was arrested over the weekend while returning to Las Vegas from the Conservative Leadership Conference in Sparks. He remained in the Nye County Jail in Beatty this morning waiting for bail, according to an official there. Looks like he never paid some speeding tickets in Fernley and had two warrants out for his arrest. He was picked up by Nevada Highway Patrol on Saturday.

source-RGJ:Inside Nevada Politics

A funny bit from a cool Reno Blogger...
Reno and It's Discontents

The new numbers are out-you can now find out how many Delegates your Precinct will be voting on at the Caucus! Your District Coordinator will have the number-or send me a message-I will tell you!
Also some Precint bounderies have moved recently, and some numbers changed-If you live in Washoe, please check your own address to see if your Precinct has changed.

WashoeVoterReg

Nevada Democrats will elect 10,446 delegates representing their preferred presidential candidates â�" and Nevada's choice to be the next Democratic presidential nominee â�" when they meet in precinct caucuses around the state January.

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