Executive Committee Meeting Weds April 16, 7pm at Historic Courthouse
 
There will be a meeting of the Party Executive committee at 7pm on Wednesday April 16 in the Elevator Room, in the Historic Courthouse on Rockwall Square, 101 E. Rusk St.  The meeting will canvass the vote from the Primary runoff election on April 8, 2008 and discuss the county convention held on March 29, 2008.  If you are on the Executive Committee please plan to attend. 

Breakfast Meeting - Saturday April 19, 9am

Our monthly Breakfast Meeting is this Saturday April19.  It will begin at 9am, a complimentary continental breakfast is served.  The meeting is held at the Community Center at Harry Myers Park, 815 E. Washington, Rockwall (Map to Community Center).

This month we will hold a Candidate Forum for all candidates to municipal offices in Rockwall County.

WOW! What a great turnout at the Rockwall Convention!

Rockwall County elected 9 Barak Obama delegates and 6 Hilary Clinton delegates to the State Convention in Austin. The delegation chair is Harold Partain, Harold can be reached at StateDelegation@rockwalldems.com.  Our delegates to state are:

Delegation Chair:     Harold Partain
Philip Borawski, Ginger Heard, Carol, Wallace, David Korman, Brandi Richard-Tilley, Patrick Adams, Harold High, Shawn Gary, Edward Bremer, Robert Duckworth, Wally Wadsworth, Miguel Mendez, Christina Arriaga, Rafael Gutierrez

Alternates: Allen Asberry, Debra Conger, Margaret Baker, James Hummingbird, David Johnson, Nigel Hanrahan, Mary Allen, Milton Whitley, Glyn Boyles, Jenny Davis, Roberta Hanson, David Berrera, Susan Gomez, Doris Cooks, Wiliam slayton

 

"So after our election today I hope you will leave here not as a Clinton or Obama Democrat but as a Democrat period. Let’s join together after today to save our country, it needs a united Democratic Party."

Full text of speech of Dr. Stephen Taylor's Convention Speech

NEW.... Check out the Rockwall County Chair's blog


Many Thanks to the great volunteers who worked so hard to make the convention happen.

Thanks to:

  • Nancy for all the volunteer co-ordination and decoration
  • Stephen for the facility and co-ordination
  • Barbara as our Parliamentarian
  • Bick as our Temporary and Convention Chair
  • Miguel for the catering
  • Tim for the audio-visuals.
  • Brenda, Roberta, Jay & Christina on the credentials committee

    Know someone else who should be added here? Send me an email     webmaster@rockwalldems.com
 

Things to know about the convention process (the first 4 are pdf documents so you will need Acrobat Reader):

Rockwall Election Results:   Democratic      (Republican)

Texas Election Results:       Democratic      (Republican)

For analysis and discussion of the Texas results here are some useful links:
New York Times analysis and current status of the Texas Delegation, scroll down to see the county by county color-coded maps.
Austin Chronicle summary and status.

Congratulations to Glenn Melancon, Rick Noriega, Sam Houston, Linda Reyna Yanez and Mark Thompson .

Texas State Convention June 5-7 in Austin

National Convention August 25-28 in Denver, CO

 

Explanation of the Texas Primary Rules
Explanation of the Texas Delegate Allocation Rule & Timeline
Below are some documents with useful information for election day and the precinct conventions
Precinct Convention 101
Precinct Convention with Provisional Voters
Standardized Resolution Form

Am I Registered to vote (This site will tell you where you are registered to vote IF you gave your drivers license when you registered.  People who registered many years ago will not necessarily show up in this search)

 

Presidential Candidate Campaign Updates

Barack Obama -   Contact the Rockwall County Organizer, Maggie for more information and future training and volunteer opportunities.

Hilary Clinton - The Hilary Clinton Dallas campaign office is at 807 Fletcher St, Dallas,: phone 214-826-2008.  Contact Connie for volunteer opportunities, yard signs, bumper stickers and buttons.

The Democratic Party Presidential Primary
 

Delegates, Caucuses and Primaries... The current status and how it all works.

This site will give you the current number of delegates each candidate has won so far, with an explanation of the process in each state. Click Here

Voters, Pledged Delegates and Super Delegates, (with a short history on how we got here). Click Here

Also the Texas Democrats website has an explanation of the delegate selection process in Texas.  Rockwall is in Senate District #2 which has 4 delegates to the National Convention.
 


 

Check out the State Party Site for more candidate information


Candidate's Guide to the Primary and General Election by the Texas Secretary of State