Greetings, all.

Our annual Truman-Kennedy dinner will be held on Saturday, May 22, 2010 at the Jaycees in Waldorf from 6-10 pm.

This dinner is our largest fundraiser of the year, and attracts over 300 attendees.  Now is the time to consider a sponsorship or an ad in our program.  For details, please go to http://www.charlesdems.org.  Tickets are $55; you can reserve/purchase tickets now. 

We will be presenting our annual awards to three outstanding Democrats.  There will be a notice published in the Independent asking for the public to submit nominations for these awards.

There will also be a silent auction with many interesting and fun items.

I’ll be posting details and speaker information once our agenda is firm.

Please join us!

Each year, the Charles County Democratic Central Committee honors three outstanding Democrats.  The three awards that are presented are the John Thomas Parran Award (also known as “Democrat of the Year”), the Truman Award and the Kennedy Award. 

This year, the committee is soliciting nominations from the community.  Nominations may be submitted via the committee website (http://www.charlesdems.org) or by U.S. Mail.

A description of each award as well as more detailed instructions for submitting a nomination may be found on our website.

The results will be determined at our April meeting and results will be posted on the website.

Deadline for nominations is 2 April.  Please consider submitting a name for consideration!

After receiving and evaluating a number of excellent nominations for this year’s awards, the Democratic Central Committee has selected the following honorees for 2010:

John Thomas Parran Award
Delegate Murray D. Levy

Truman Award
James A. Lowery, Jr.

Kennedy Award
Joan V. Jones

In addition, wanted to let people know that our key note speaker is Governor Martin O’Malley; attendees will include the Lieutenant Governor, Congressman Hoyer, the Maryland Democratic Chair, Susan Turnbull, Senator Middleton and we expect all of our Delegates and County Commissioners.

In addition, we expect all of our Delegate and local candidates to attend, so there will be opportunity to meet and mingle.

Please join us on May 22nd.

For anyone interested, photos of the Truman-Kennedy Dinner have been posted on our website.  Our “official” event photographer is Dani Kautz.

Photos may be viewed on http://www.charlesdems.org under photos.

Where is the photo of Vinnie stealing KR’s sign?  I heard your “official” photographer captured the moment.  Did the DCC forbid you from posting it?

Julia Charles - 31 May 2010 01:22 PM

Where is the photo of Vinnie stealing KR’s sign?  I heard your “official” photographer captured the moment.  Did the DCC forbid you from posting it?

If there is a photo, the photographer has not yet shared it with us. 

And I don’t do ‘forbid’ very well.

Where is the photo of Vinnie stealing KR’s sign?

Oh, yeah, please post that photo.  Vinnie is a DCC member; Vinnie rips off a KR campaign sign at the Truman-Kennedy Dinner; Vinnie gets caught red-handed by KR and a hired photographer….heh, Vinnie, not the sharpest tack in the box!

A photo is worth a thousand words.  Vinnie might enjoy seeing a photo of himself skulking around the T-K Dinner parking lot….heeeeheeeee…..