Hello Fellow Democrats of Lee County,

December 27, 2011

Season's Greetings.
Everyone really seemed to enjoy celebrating the Holiday Season on December 20, at the Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre seeing Irving Berlin's White Christmas. The donations provided a wonderful dinner show and the proceeds will help fill the coffers of the Democratic Party of Lee County.

On November 20th, everyone really seemed to enjoy the Wildlife Sunset Cruise on the Lady Chadwick out of Captiva. Rod Smith, chairman of the Florida Democratic Party, was our guest and gave a good talk about the state of politics and what we need to do to win in 2012. Paul McCarthy, boat owner, talked about the environment and how we need to preserve our way of life in the beautiful state of Florida. The weather was perfect and we enjoyed the cocktails, hors d'ourves and keyboard playing. It was a moderately successful fundraiser.

We had a good turnout at the Florida State Convention. We had about 40 qualified delegates. We are still glowing from the 2011 FDP Golden Gavel award we received at the convention as one of the ten top DECs in the state. Our gavel made history by pounding in the FDP party vote for Barack Obama as our nominee for President. This was due to the chairman leaving his gavel at home.
Meaghan Hardy was hired as OFA Regional Field Director for Lee, Collier and Western Broward counties. She has given classes in Lee County on Voter Registration and gotten people certified as third party agents. Michelle Guerin has been trained and will be offering some classes too. Now that people have been trained, the DEC is registering people to vote. They will be working in the local colleges to get students elected, as well as other targeted areas.

Geoffrey Springer was appointed chair for the Campaign Committee. The committee has met to start planning the strategy for rest of 2011 and 2012. Dr. Arol I. Buntzman was appointed chair for the for the Fundraising and Finance Committee. The committee has been meeting and planning 2011 - 2012 events. To fill vacancies, we have elected a husband and wife team as our new state committee people , Lydia Lowell-Sherman as state committeewoman and Steve Sherman as state committeeman.

After our cruise, I can confidently say that our ship is moving smoothly through the waters on a chartered course with a strong crew aboard.

Blue Skies!
Sandra "Sandy" McClinton, Chairwoman