[img]2383|exact|||no_popup[/img]
New Dem, Club President Lee Sanders, second from right, is joined, from left, by Brandon Hanner, Sylvia Moore, Outgoing President Bill Wynn, Tom Camarella and, in front, Lee Welinsky.
No drama was attached to the Culver City Democratic Club’s election of officers last evening.
In the venerable club’s 62nd year, Lee Sanders, the lone candidate, was voted president by acclamation.
Known for his insightful study of issues, Mr. Sanders published a thoughtful 227-word platform that is reproduced below.
[img]2382|right|Ms. Moore, First VP||no_popup[/img]The balance of the slate, unanimously chosen, included Sylvia Moore as first vice president, David Bromberg as second vice president, and Stephen Murray as corresponding secretary. Pat Levinson returns as recording secretary, Eric Fine as treasurer and Diane Rosenberg as membership chair.
Here is President Sanders’s statement:
I would like to make a brief statement on the purposes and usefulness of our club.
1. Like most clubs of any kind, we encourage the growth of long-term friendships and networks of activists with common interests. These can be personally rewarding, and lead to electing to local offices our friends and those we know we can trust to represent us.
2. We can educate our members, the public, and especially the young Democrats, about important issues: healthcare, human rights, environment, economics, and taxes, as well as demonstrating how to engage in practical politics. Our meetings will allow contacts with other political speakers. We will offer copies of significant political articles, and show some documentary films.
We will be open to our members' ideas for political activism at our meetings and elsewhere. I was fortunate to have parents, aunts, and uncles who were active in the Young Democrats and FDR Club of Pasadena. So I was educated, mentored and volunteering, beginning when I was six years old.
3. We are the grassroots of a large and powerful Democratic Party of America. The club movement in
California (California Democratic Council) was most influential in the 1950s and ‘60s. Politicians appreciated us as the experienced volunteers who did the work that got them elected. We must restore that movement as the democratic alternative to the Wall Street Party.
