Congratulations to our local candidates, especially Linda Eilenfeldt, on winning big in the 2013 municipal elections. Mid-Cities Democrats was 100% in the candidates we endorsed/supported, compare this to the NE Tarrant Tea Party which went 1-7. Great wins, and a great direction for the Mid Cities area!
MCD April Meeting
April 20th, 2013 
MCD MID-CITIES DEMOCRATS MEETING NEXT THURSDAY NIGHT
Mid-Cities Democrats Monthly Meeting
Thursday, April 25th – 7:00PM
Los Jimadores Tequila Factory
3314 Harwood Road, Bedford TX 76021 (map)
Guest Speaker: Dr. Jerry Burkett
Dr. Burkett is currently working with a documentary filmmaker who is producing a film about Texas public schools and the school finance crisis. Dr. Burkett and his wife are featured in the film, and his film crew wanted to take footage of his speech with our group. This is a great opportunity to hear of an important issue, plus get some great press for MCD!
TCDP Chair Election This Saturday, April 20th @ 9:30 am
TCDP Precinct Chairs are meeting at the UNT Science Bldg. off Montgomery St. and Camp Bowie Blvd. in Ft. Worth to vote on an Interim TCDP Chairperson.
Current MCD members were polled regarding an official endorsement for this election. A majority of our voting members opted to not have MCD give an official endorsement for a candidate. Thank you for your participation!
By the time of our meeting on April 25th, we’ll have the winner of this interim election.
Closing Nominations for Vice President
We’ll be closing the nominations for the Vice President role within MCD. The election is scheduled for our May meeting.
H-E-B Democrats City Group Update
New H-E-B City Group Facebook page, please “Like” it – http://www.facebook.com/MCDHEB
At our H-E-B City Group kick off event on April 16, we raised $2k (including donations and matching funds) for Linda Eilenfeldt, a candidate for Euless city council. The event and funds will help propel Linda to victory over Tea Party challengers to the Euless seats.
Next H-E-B City Group meeting is May 21st, 6:30 pm at the Pizza Garden in Bedford. Details are on the Facebook page. HEB will be on a 3rd Tuesday of each month schedule with speakers and other local organizing activities.
Arbor Daze city festival in Euless is April 27-28. We will have a Democratic booth, promoting MCD, HEB City Group, and ReadyForHillary. The Right to Life and Tea Party people will also be there, so we need to REPRESENT. If you want to help work the booth, please contact John Schleeter at johnschleeter@gmail.com
CGS Democrats City Group Update
Wanted: Someone with energy, determination, and a willingness to make a difference! We need someone to take the reigns of the CGS Democrats group and lead it to success in those cities! Contact Clancy Cummings or Mike Patino
for more information.
Adopt-A-Highway Cleanup
On Saturday, April 6th, a group of MCD members met to collect trash inside our MCD section of Highway 26. We collected nearly 15 bags of trash from our beautiful Texas roads! We’ll keep everyone apprised of our next cleanup event, and we hope to see you all there for some fun, well-appreciated work.
WELCOME PRECINCT CHAIRS!
A big Mid-Cities Welcome to all our Precinct Chairs, and to our NEW Precinct Chairs a BIG Thank You as well!
Let’s kick into spring with a another GREAT MCD meeting!
Democratically yours,
Mike Patino, President
Mid-Cities Democrats
CGS Presents Term Limits for a Better Grapevine Phone Banking Event
April 8th, 2013 MCD Term Limits for a Better Grapevine Phone Banking Event
Where: Bessie Mitchell House (411 Ball St. Grapevine)
When: Thursday, April 11, 6 – 8 PM
Contact: Kathleen Thompson (kathleen@ktnote.com) or Clancy Cummings (clancifer@gmail.com) to sign up.
Details: Last year, a bipartisan group of Grapevine residents collected nearly 2,000 signatures to call a City Charter Amendment Election for the City of Grapevine. Residents aged 18-88 signed in support of term limits, the signatures were verified and the election date is set. Join us for a briefing on the term limits initiative and take action to support term limits. Bring your mobile phone and bring a friend.
(This event is hosted by Kathleen Thompson and the Better Grapevine PAC, and supported by the Colleyville, Grapevine, Southlake Democrats city group of the Mid-Cities Democrats.)
MCD Meeting March 28 @ Los Jimadores
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MCD Meeting This Thursday, Feb 28 @ 7 PM
February 26th, 2013 MCD
Mid-Cities Democrats Monthly Meeting
Thursday, February 28th – 7:00PM
Los Jimadores Tequila Factory
3314 Harwood Road, Bedford TX 76021
Welcome Candidates for Tarrant County Democratic Party Chair!
We wish to welcome all candidates running for Chair of the Tarrant County Democratic Party to come by and introduce yourselves to our members and guests…many who are Precinct Chairs!
Please RSVP with Mike Patino.
FEATURED GUEST SPEAKER: BUD KENNEDY
Our featured guest speaker for February is Bud Kennedy.
Mr Kennedy is a homegrown Fort Worth guy who started out covering high school football here when he was 16. He went away to the Fort Worth Press, and newspapers in Austin and Dallas before returning to Fort Worth in 1981.
Since 1987, he has written more than 1,000 weekly dining columns and more than 3,000 news and politics columns.
If you don’t like what he says about politics, read him on barbecue!
E-mail: bud@budkennedy.com Follow @budkennedy on Twitter
During our meeting, we’ll also focus on projects aligned to the TCDP as well as Wendell Dorsey’s Neighborhood Outreach Group (NOG) project.
Nominations for MCD President
As a reminder, nominations for the March MCD President election will close this Thursday during our meeting.
WELCOME PRECINCT CHAIRS!
A big Mid-Cities Welcome to all our Precinct Chairs and to our NEW Precinct Chairs a BIG Thank You as well!
We’re looking forward to another awesome meeting with our many like-minded Democrats!
Democratically yours,
Mike Patino
Mid-Cities Democrats
Mid-Cities Democrats January 24 Meeting
January 15th, 2013 MCD Mid-Cities Democrats January meeting
When: 7:00PM, Thursday, January 24th
Where: Los Jimadores Tequila Factory
3314 Harwood Road
Bedford TX 76021 (map)
At this meeting, we will pay tribute to our group president, Byron Sibbett, who passed away from us suddenly last week. We will miss Byron’s gentle spirit, his dedication to our cause, and his commitment to Mid-Cities. Please join us in remembering Byron.
We will also feature a guest speaker, John Woods. If you watched the news in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, you may have seen coverage of John Woods, a University of Texas at Austin PhD student along with other friends and family of gun violence victims at Capitol Hill speaking to national leaders.
Woods is a 2007 Virginia Tech alum turned campus safety activist after campus carry bills were introduced in the Texas Legislature shortly after his move to Austin. Steering the small and tireless group at Students for Gun-Free Schools (Austin Chronicle’s “Best of Austin” 2009 award), Woods succeeded in stopping campus carry.
The 83rd Legislative Session is underway and a number of bills concerning firearms have been filed. To date, none dealing with campus carry or campus safety, though the issue is expected to be revisited.
Woods won the reader-decided Austin Chronicle’s “Best Activist” 2011 award (http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Awards/BestOfAustin?Award=1250813) and is the subject of the short documentary “Her Name was Max” (http://vimeo.com/37680779).
So join us on the 24th at Los Jimadores. Come early to eat; the meeting starts at 7 PM.
Democratically yours,
Mike Patino
Vice President
Mid-Cities Democrats
