Enjoy the memories!

A big Thank You to all who came out to the Pageant for our Presidential Inauguration Celebration on Tuesday night! We collected over 990 pounds of food for Operation Food Search and drank almost 8 kegs of Schlafly InaugurALE!!

Check out the event pictures and videos:

http://stltoday.mycapture.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=675985&CategoryID=38925

http://toastedrav.com/post/6181/trav_video#0

http://stlouis.metromix.com/events/photogallery/inauguration-for-the-people/906428/content

We would love to post your pictures of the event! Please send them to citydemsparty@sbcglobal.net.

There are still event t-shirts available. These are one-of-a-kind-historic-memorabilia-kinda shirts with the Schlafly “InaugurALE” logo on the front and the event details on the back.

Shirts are $20 and sizes range from S to 3XL

A limited supply of logo bottles are also available with each t-shirt order – when they are gone, they are gone!!

Please email citydemsparty@sbcglobal.net with your order.

Special thanks:

The Pageant

Operation Food Search

Schlafly Brewery

Joe Dryer & Rosemary Watts

The Sean Holland Band

Paul Brown and the Killing Devils

DJ Tossin’ Ted

Thurman Grill & Provisions

Donna Brooks, City Cable Channel 10

Gerald Palmer

Our volunteers

By all accounts the Party for the People held Tuesday night at the Pageant was a memorable night.  Nearly 800 proud Americans gathered to dance and celebrate the inauguration of Barack Obama as POTUS! In addition, almost a pick-up truck load of canned goods were gathered for the less fortunate in our community.  see links below for video and images from the event.  The City Dems give a big Shout Out to Cara Jenson, 8th Ward Committeewoman and Joe Palm, 26th Ward Committeeman for putting together such a great party!

http://stltoday.mycapture.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=675985&CategoryID=38925

http://toastedrav.com/post/6181/trav_video#0

http://stlouis.metromix.com/events/photogallery/inauguration-for-the-people/906428/content

You are Cordially Invited to the
2009 Presidential Inauguration Celebration
Hosted by the St. Louis Democratic City Central Committee
Party for the People

Tuesday, January 20, 2009
7:00 p.m. – 1:00 a.m.

The Pageant – 6161 Delmar St. Louis, MO

Reservations – $10 plus a canned food donation

Space is limited so click here to RSVP now

For more information, contact citydemsparty@sbcglobal.net or 314-667-3785

• Historic Inauguration Address

• Schlafly Inaugural Brew

• Non-Smoking

• Commemorative Items – one of a kind Schlafly InaugurALE shirts and event bottles, Obama/Biden signs, stickers, etc.

• Live Music – Joe Dryer & Rosemary Watts, The Sean Holland Band, Paul Brown and the Killing Devils, DJ Tossin’ Ted

•  Catered Buffet and Cash Bar

•  Come As You Are

Paid for by the St. Louis City Federal Campaign Committee, Joe P.
Keaveny, Treasurer

Join the City Democrats and St. Louis Elected Officials for the Election Night Watch Party at the Khorassan Room in the Chase Park Plaza.  Come down, bring a friend to watch the results come in.

Date: November 4th

Time: 7:30-until we have a new President

Location: Chase Park Plaza Hotel

at the corner of Lindell and Kingshighway Blvds.

Proposition C – The Missouri Clean Energy Initiative

www.missouricleanenergy.org

Last week, the St. Louis City Democratic Central Committee endorsed Proposition C – The Missouri Clean Energy Initiative.  

Proposition C requires that Missouri’s investor owned utilities get 15% percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2021.  Renewable energy is power generated from wind, solar, landfill gas, biomass, and small hydroelectric projects.

We now have an opportunity to make Missouri a national leader in clean, alternative energy - recharging our economy, creating good jobs and reducing energy costs. 

Join the Proposition C effort by going to their website and signing up your support at www.missouricleanenergy.org. 

Currently, 82% of Missouri’s electricity comes from coal at a cost of $9 billion a year, while only .01% comes from renewable sources. 

Additionally, the emergence of clean renewable energy in Missouri is expected to create tens of thousands of jobs across the state and lead to billions of dollars in economic development while addressing climate change.  In fact, by 2021 the Clean Energy Initiative will have the same effect as permanently removing 2 million cars from the road. 

Not only is this initiative going to start creating more jobs and jumpstart our economy in Missouri, this initiative is going to save Missouri energy consumers $331 million over a 20-year period.

Vote YES on Proposition C on November 4^th! 

Go to www.missouricleanenergy.org to find out how you can help bring renewable energy to Missouri.   clean-energh-logo

Join us at our 3rd Annual Halloween Costume Party!

Friday, October 24, 7:30 to 10:30 PM

Glazers Union Hall, 5916 Wilson Avenue

$10 in advance, $15 at the door, $5 for College Dems

Free Beer and Food compliments of Anheuser-Busch

Prizes for best costume

Co-sponsored with The Young Democrats of Greater St. Louis

For more information, email ydstlouis@gmail.com or call 314.809.5083

Channel 73 on the Dish Network is now The Obama Channel.

Obama’s media buying strategy has been marked by a willingness to work the angles, and to try to pick up a few votes at the margins. The decision to go to everything from extensive radio buys to odd-hour infomercials reflects the fact that the campaign media buyers spend a lot of time thinking about how much persuasion any given dollar can buy, and given a very cheap format — late night cable channels that need filler, for instance — will settle for a thimblefull of persuasion.

The satellite channel is the latest of these marginal gambits: Three readers from different parts of the country email that Channel 073-00 on the Dish Network is now labeled OBAMA. (”What is up with Sen. Obama having his own channel?” asks a St. Louis reader.) The channel plays his two-minute ad laying out his economic plan on a loop, over and over.

The only explanation: The media buyers think they can reach enough people per dollar to make it worth the odd buy.

The channel’s appearance has provoked scorn and alarm on conservative blogs, though, and some discussion on a forum for Satellite TV aficionados, where one user writes that a Dish Network executive emailed to reassure the user that  it “is paid advertising by the Obama campaign and is not an endorsement of Senator Obama by DISH Network” and will broadcast through November 4.

A spokeswoman for EchoStar, the Dish Network’s parent company, didn’t respond immediately to phone and email inquiries abotut the channel.

We are looking for letters from City Democrats expressing why this election is so important and why they intend to vote for Barack Obama and Jay Nixon on Novemeber 4th.  Some of these letters will be published in the election edition of the St. Louis Democrat Press which will be published in late October. 

So if you want to share your thoughts on the importance of voting and voting Democrat this year, please send us an email at brian@citydems.org

YD 1st Debate Watch Party
JOIN MEMBERS OF THE YOUNG DEMOCRAT OF ST. LOUIS AND THE ST. LOUIS AREA YOUNG REPUBLICANS FOR THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE

Friday September 26, 2008 7pm – 10:00 PM

Harris Stowe State University Emerson Performance Center

3026 Laclede Ave St. Louis MO 63103

Help the Yound Dems, Help the Senior Dems. Donate to the Life Essentials Drive,  charity drive for needy Seniors. DONATE Food Personal Care Hygiene Items Clothing Linens Donations are being taken from 10:00 AM – 10:00 PM Harris Stowe State University Emerson Performance Center front entrance. After you donate stay for the debate.