PROUD TO BE DEMOCRATS
UMKC College Democrats
Minutes
11.10.2004
7:00: DISCUSSION TOPIC TONIGHT: The influence of morality and religious principles in Tuesday’s election
7:10: President:
- Are meetings on Wednesday’s at this time still ok?
- Making our voices heard on campus (i.e. U. News articles, activities, etc.)
- Our posters are being ripped down.
- Letter writing campaigns
- On-campus documentary (possibly making it into a DVD and giving it away
with our shirts)
Different speakers
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After winter break: Whitney Brown, Gamer, Women’s Issues speaker- Selling stuff on campus (Bullshit shirts are a huge hit!) We need more funny
shirts so we can sell them in Royal next Friday!
Other things to sell- car window logos?
7:20 Secretaries:
- Please sign in if you haven’t.
KICK submissions are greatly appreciated. We will have an online version soon!
New website, blog?
7:22 Treasurer:
- Pay your dues if you have them
Update on finances
Currently $550 in shirt orders
7:25 Philanthropy:
Non/Partisan oriented philanthropy activities
St Jude card fronts- campus event idea (St. Jude collects card fronts and resells them
7:30 Events:
HRC activities (walk), letter-writing fundraising, stuff with Republicans (open challenge), NPR (possibly interview someone with one from the KU republicans), and ACLU
Game night?
7:35 Historian:
- Shannon is our new historian
- Campaign stuff for this year’s scrapbook.
7: 38 Webmaster:
Adrienne is our new webmaster
7:40: TONIGHT’S PRESENTATION: The Roo Party! – Marcus Leach
This was a request that we sign a petition to initiate a new organization. The organizations goals would be to represent an organized party with the intention of representing student issues to the Student Government and proposing nominating and sponsoring candidates.