As the caucus and convention season approaches more dates are being set. The CD4/Ramsey County Convention for 2010 will be on 17 April at Roseville Area Senior High. Keep your eyes peeled for further details and for more exciting caucus and convention announcements.

Representative Erin Murphy would like you to join her on December 9th to rehab a home in Columbia Heights that has been foreclosed upon. At the completion of the rehab it will be matched with a qualified Habitat for Humanity Homeowner.

The Volunteer day will begin at 8:30 am and end at 4pm at 4951 Madison St NE, Columbia Heights.

If you are interested in volunteering please contact Mary Ellen Jaspers by phone at 612-305-7117 or e-mail at maryellen.jaspers@tchabitat.org.

President Obama will hold a rally at the Target Center to discuss what’s at stake for the American people in the health care debate – why we need reform and why we need to act now.

The rally will be free and open to the public. Space is available on a first come, first serve basis. No ticket is required. Doors open at 9:30am, program starts at approximately 12:30pm.

All attendees will go through airport-like security and should bring as few personal items as possible. No bags, no sharp objects, no umbrellas, no liquids, no strollers, and no signs will be allowed into the venue.

The St. Paul DFL invites all of us in SD64 to get active in this Fall’s city races. They are having their first big GOTV “door-knock” event this Sunday.

GOTV Door Knock Kick-off
Sunday, September 13, 3pm
at the New St. Paul DFL Office
2446 University Ave W. (Just West of Jimmy John’s)

Come join us at we get out the vote for the September 15th primary. RSVP and questions to Libby Kantner, field staff for the Saint Paul DFL, libbykantner28@gmail.com, 651-485-3431

Congresswoman Betty McCollum invites us to a community conversation about reforming our nation’s broken health care system. Join her for this important dialogue.

Monday, August 31
7:00 to 8:30pm
Weyerhaeuser Chapel
Macalester College
1600 Grand Avenue

The August recess is almost over. As Congress
heads back to Washington, let’s show our
support for action on health care this fall.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Gathering begins at 6pm, program starts at 6:30pm

Mt. Zion Temple
1300 Summit Ave

Join State Rep. Erin Murphy, State Rep. Tom Huntley,
U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum (invited) and Dr. Lynn Blewett,
State Heath Access Data Assistance Center, with other
health care and community leaders.

Get the facts on the proposals and impact on Minnesota.

Engage in a civil dialogue about health care
and the health of the nation.

Express your support for federal health insurance reform.

Please join your St. Paul DFL friends and neighbors
for a B.Y.O.Picnic

Sunday, July 12th from 11am to 2:30pm
Newell Park, on Pierce Butler Road at Fairview

Mingle with some of your elected officials and candidates for races like Mayor, School Board, Governor, etc. Catch up with your neighbors who share your vision of electing progressive leaders to all levels. This is one event this summer not to miss!

The following candidates and elected officials have confirmed their attendance (listed in random order): Russ Stark, Paul Thissen, Susan Gaertner, Alice Hausman, Tom Bakk, John Choi, Margaret Anderson-Kelliher, Dave Pinto, Elona Street-Stewart, John Brodrick, David Schultz, Keith Hardy, Matt Entenza, Steve Kelley, and staff members from John Marty’s and Mark Dayton’s campaigns.

Questions? Contact either Darren Tobolt at 651-470-7690 darrentobolt@yahoo.com or Beth Commers at 651-227-3922 bethcommers@donjek.com.

Please join us to bid farewell to the Political Contribution Refund Program, also fondly referred to as “PCR” and the “Get Your Money Back Program”. As of July 1, it will become yet another victim of the Governor’s agenda.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009
5:30pm – 7:30pm
The Groveland Tap
1834 St Clair Ave

Suggested donation: $50, $100, or whatever you can give. The PCR program will refund your political contribution up to $50 per individual or $100 per family per year.

If you cannot attend the event, please consider clicking the donate button above to learn how to donate online or by mail.

Join your SD64 Legislators Senator Dick Cohen, Representative Erin
Murphy and Representative Michael Paymar for a non-partisan forum to
discuss this year’s legislative results. Co-sponsored by Mount Zion Temple.

Tuesday, June 16, 7pm
Mount Zion Temple
1300 Summit Avenue

As you might have heard, Governor Pawlenty held a news conference this afternoon at the State Capitol. In his remarks, he declared that there would be no special session and that he would balance the budget “on his own if he has to.”

Unfortunately, Governor Pawlenty has been unwilling to compromise with the DFL leadership to find a sensible solution to our state’s budget crisis.

We need your help to make sure that he receives a strong message in the coming days — he will not decide the future of this state by himself.

Instead of taking a balanced approach, Pawlenty borrows, shifts and cuts so deeply that it results in the loss of thousands of private-sector jobs, negatively affecting Minnesota’s working families.

This weekend in neighborhoods throughout Minnesota, we’ll be going door-to-door encouraging folks to call Governor Pawlenty. With so much at stake, we need as many Minnesotans as possible to call the governor and ask him to stop being so stubborn and come to the table.

We’ll be handing out a flyer that encourages Minnesotans to call Governor Pawlenty to tell him that we want a balanced approach to a balanced budget. Click here to download a copy for yourself to distribute.

DFLers will gather on Saturday in Saint Paul to talk to their neighbors to encourage them to call Governor Pawlenty…

Saturday, May 17 at 9:30 am
A Fine Grind Coffee Shop
2038 Marshall Ave
St. Paul, MN 55104

Contact: Beth Commers, bethcommers@donjek.com, 651-227-3922

If you’d like to organize a group to walk in your area, please contact Jaime Tincher, (651) 251-6310 or jtincher@dfl.org.

Regardless of if you can make it Saturday, please consider taking the very important step of calling the Governor right now.

By making just one phone call in the coming days, you can help save 10,000 private sector jobs, keep 110,000 Minnesotans from losing health insurance and cut wasteful government spending. Will you do that?

Call Governor Pawlenty right now at (651) 296-3391 or 1-800-657-3717.

Tell him you want a balanced approach to a balanced budget.