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PRESS
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LAKE
TRAVIS DEMOCRATS
February 2012
The Lake Travis Democrats will welcome five law enforcement and judicial candidates at its’ Tuesday, February 7th Meeting.
The
Democrats' February meeting will be held Tuesday, February 7 at the
Lakeway Activity Center, located at 105 Cross Creek in Lakeway. The
meeting will begin at 6:30 pm with wine, non-alcoholic beverages, and
appetizers served as part of a social time. The business and speakers' part of the
meeting will begin at 7 pm.
The
following candidates with speak at the meeting beginning promptly at 7
pm: The Honorable Greg Hamilton, Travis County Sheriff; The Honorable
Richard McCain, Travis County Constable for District 2; The Honorable
Adan Ballesteros, Travis County Constable for District 3; C. Byron Case,
Judicial Candidate for 167th District; Efrain DeLaFuentes, Judicial
Candidate for 167th District. At this meeting, the club will also
continue their drive to raise money for the Lake Travis Library's
Pathway of Friends.
Lake Travis Democrats meetings are open to both non-members and members. Annual memberships are $ 20; couples memberships are $ 35. Lake Travis Democrats memberships for 2012 can be renewed or purchased at the February 7th meeting.or online at our website
www.laketravisdemocrats.org
The Lake Travis Democratic Club meets monthly on the second Tuesday. (except for December and the Summer months) The club is made up of precincts from Lakeway, Bee Cave, Spicewood, Hudson Bend, Lake Wind, and Steiner Ranch.
For more information about the club and their monthly meetings, please contact Judy Donohue, Lake Travis Democrats President, president@laketravisdemocrats.org, 214 228-1532, or visit our website at ww.laketravisdemocrats.org.
Submitted by Lucy Cooper Oglesby
512 326 9902
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PRESS
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LAKE
TRAVIS DEMOCRATS
October 2011
Diane
Holloway, blogger for “On the Record” (published on the Travis
County Democrats Website), will be the featured speaker for the Lake
Travis Democrats meeting on Tuesday, October 11. The Honorable
Rosemary Lehmberg, Travis County District Attorney, will also speak
at the meeting. Rosemary recently announced her intention to run
for re-election to a second term.
Steve
Harvey, President of the Lake Travis Education Foundation, will close
the meeting with an informative talk about the upcoming School Bond
Election on November 8th.
The
Democrats' October meeting will be held Tuesday, October 11th at the
Lakeway Activity Center, located at 105 Cross Creek in Lakeway. The
meeting will begin at 6:30 pm with wine, non-alcoholic beverages, and
appetizers served as part of a social time. The business and
presentation part of the meeting will begin promptly at 7 pm.
After
a long career as TV critic and feature reporter for the Austin
American-Statesman, Diane Holloway joined the Travis County
Democratic’s Party’s web communication efforts as reporter/writer
of ‘ On The Record with Diane Holloway,’ the Travis County
Democratic Party’s Blog published on their website. For the Blog,
Diane interviews elected officials, candidates and regular people
about the issues that affect our lives. Diane had the good fortune of
working as a student vote coordinator for Sen. Robert Kennedy’s
presidential campaign. After graduating from college in Virginia, she
lived in Washington, D.C., working for the Library of Congress, the
American Film Institute and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Diane moved to Austin to work for the daily newspaper as a reporter,
columnist, critic and blogger. She is married to a Ben Sargent, a
Pulitzer Prize Winning Cartoonist.
Rosemary
Lehmberg, also a speaker at the October meeting, is a native of
Taylor, Texas. She received a BA degree in Natural Sciences from the
University of Texas at Austin and her Juris Doctor degree from St.
Mary’s University School of Law.
She
maintained a private law practice before joining the staff of the
Travis County District Attorney in 1976. Rosemary began her career
with the District Attorney working with the Grand Jury and then as a
trial attorney in the 167th District Court, presided over by Judge
Tom Blackwell. She later became chief of that court and then the
chief of the Trial Division. Rosemary has served as the chief of the
Career Criminal, Major Crimes and Public Integrity Divisions of the
Travis County District Attorney.
In
1988, Rosemary became director of the Family Justice Division. While
director, she was a founder of the Travis County Children's Advocacy
Center, now the Center for Child Protection, which opened its new
campus in September, 2008. The Center provides state-of-the-art,
collaborative investigations of child abuse cases in a child-friendly
environment. During her tenure with the Family Justice Division, the
Austin Chronicle named Rosemary the Best Lawyer for Children's
Issues.
Rosemary
then served as First Assistant District Attorney from 1997 until
2009, when she was elected District Attorney. She took office in
January, 2009, the first woman District Attorney in Travis County
history. In July 2011, Rosemary announced her intention to run for
re-election to a second term.
Following
Diane’s and Rosemary’s presentations at the meeting, Steve
Harvey, the Lake Travis Education Foundation President, will give a
talk to
help provide voters with information about the November bond
election. In May, a 27-member citizens’ advisory committee
comprised of men and women representing each elementary and secondary
school attendance zone recommended to the LTISD Board of Trustees
that a $158.5 million bond package be brought before District voters.
Two weeks later, in a unanimous 7-0 vote, the Board approved an
order calling a bond election to be held November 8, 2011. Residents
who have received an Over-65 Exemption or ‘freeze’ from the
Travis County Appraisal District will incur no tax impact as a
result of the approved bond election.
The
Lake Travis Democratic Club meets monthly on the second Tuesday.
(except for December and the Summer months) The club is made up of
precincts from Lakeway, Bee Cave, Spicewood, Hudson Bend, Lake Wind,
and Steiner Ranch.
Lake Travis
Democrats meetings are open to both non-members and members. Annual
memberships are $ 20; couples memberships are $ 35. Lake Travis
Democrats memberships can be renewed or purchased at their meetings
or by visiting www.laketravisdemocrats.org.
For
more information about the club and their monthly meetings, please
contact Judy Donohue, Lake Travis Democrats President,
president@laketravisdemocrats.org, 214 228-1532, or visit our website
at www.laketravisdemocrats.org.
Submitted
by Lucy Cooper Oglesby
512
326 9902
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PRESS RELEASE
LAKE TRAVIS DEMOCRATS
March 2011
Vince Leibowitz , the Publisher of Capitol Annex, will speak to the Lake Travis Democrats on Tuesday, March 8.
Capitol Annex-www.capitolannex.com-is
a news website dedicated to Texas news and politics. Vince Leibowitz's
presentation will be preceded by a short performance by the Wildflowers
Choral Group. The Wildflowers are a local women's barbershop-style
singing group.
The Democrats' March meeting will be held
on March 8 at the Lakeway Activity Center, located at 105 Cross Creek
in Lakeway. The meeting will begin at 6:30 pm with wine, non-alcoholic
beverages, and appetizers served as part of a social time. The business
and presentation part of the meeting will begin promptly at 7 pm.
Vince Leibowitz is an award winning journalist and newspaper editor. He is a frequent contributor to Burnt Orange Reporthe Political State Report. He also contributes occasionally to The Red State,
another Texas political web blog. While editor of the Van Zandt News
and Canton Herald, he received the Nancy Monson Award from the Freedom
of Information Foundation of Texas and the Texas Press Association.
The award was for his reporting on open government issues.
As a
journalist, Vince has covered Texas politics since 2000, and has
interviewed dozens of candidates for state and local office on both
sides of the aisle. Through his company, Free State Communications,
Vince consulted for county, city and district-level Democratic
candidates across East Texas and around the state. Vince is a longtime
Democratic activist and the former County Chairman of the Democratic
Party of Van Zandt County.
The
Lake Travis Democratic Club meets monthly on the second Tuesday.
(except for December and the Summer months) The club is made up of
precincts from Lakeway, Bee Cave, Spicewood, Hudson Bend, Lake Wind,
and Steiner Ranch.
Lake Travis Democrats meetings are open
to both non-members and members. January started the new membership
year. Annual memberships are $ 20; couples memberships are $ 35. Lake
Travis Democrats memberships can be renewed or purchased at the March 8
meeting or by visiting www.laketravisdemocrats.org.
For
more information about the club and their monthly meetings, please
contact Judy Donohue, Lake Travis Democrats President,
president@laketravisdemocrats.org, 214 228-1532, or visit our website
at www.laketravisdemocrats.org.
Submitted by Lucy Cooper Oglesby
512 326 9902 and t
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PRESS RELEASE
LAKE TRAVIS DEMOCRATS
February 2011
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Becky Moeller, the newly elected
president of the Texas AFL-CIO, will speak to the Lake Travis Democrats on Tuesday, February
8. Moeller, 58, is the first woman to hold statewide
elected office in
the Texas AFL-CIO, having broken that barrier in 2003 when she became
secretary-treasurer.
The
Democrats' meeting will be held at the Lakeway Activity Center, located at 105 Cross Creek in
Lakeway. The meeting will begin at 6:30 pm with wine, non-alcoholic
beverages, and appetizers served as part of a social time. The business
and presentation part of the meeting will begin promptly at 7 pm.
Prior
to being elected Texas AFL-CIO President, Becky Moeller served as the
organization's secretary-treasurer. During her four-year term in that
office, Moeller
brought efficiencies and oversight to the state federation budget that
kept programs going even after the departure of a substantial chunk of
membership from the AFL-CIO umbrella. She also worked with past AFL-CIO
President,
Emmett Sheppard, to build new revenue sources.
In addition, Moeller and Sheppard introduced a new political education
program that enabled organized labor in Texas to contact union members
in get-out-the-vote campaigns more effectively. The program helped
produce substantial gains for labor-backed candidates in the
Legislature and Congress.
Before coming to the Texas AFL-CIO, Becky Moeller was president of the
Communications Workers of America Local 6137, the Corpus Christi local
representing workers at SBC (now AT&T). Among her public service activities, she also served, under
an appointment by Gov. Ann Richards, as Chair of the commission that
oversees the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. Moeller is the mother of Kristie Moeller Veit and stepmother of Misty Moeller. She has five granddaughters.
The Lake Travis Democratic Club meets monthly on the second Tuesday. (except for December and the Summer months) The club is made up of
precincts from Lakeway, Bee Cave,
Spicewood, Hudson Bend, Lake Wind, and Steiner Ranch.
Lake Travis Democrats meetings
are open to both non-members and members. January started the new
membership year. Annual memberships are $ 20; couples memberships are
$ 35. Lake Travis Democrats memberships can be renewed or purchased at the February 8 meeting or by visiting www.laketravisdemocrats.org.
For more
information about the club and their monthly meetings, please contact Judy Donohue, Lake Travis Democrats President, president@laketravisdemocrats.org, 214 228-1532, or visit
our website at www.laketravisdemocrats.org
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PRESS RELEASE
LAKE TRAVIS DEMOCRATS
January 4, 2011
The Lake Travis Democrats will welcome The Honorable Dave DeOme, Lakeway Mayor, as the featured speaker for their January
Meeting.
Mayor
DeOme will give a "state of the community" address to the Lake Travis Democrats at
their Tuesday, January 11th
meeting at the Lakeway Activity Center, located at 105 Cross Creek in
Lakeway. The meeting will begin at 6:30 pm with wine, non-alcoholic
beverages, and appetizers served as part of a social time. The business
and presentation part of the meeting will begin promptly at 7 pm. Other community leaders have been invited to this meeting to share their 2010 issues/accomplishments including Bee Cave, Briarcliff and The Hills.
Prior
to being elected Mayor of Lakeway in May 2009 , Mayor DeOme had been
involved in numerous volunteer activities for the City of Lakeway . These included being a member on the City Building Commission as well as the Economic Development Committee. He also acted as council liaison to the Arts and Beautification
Committee, the Finance Evaluation Committee, the Parks and Recreation
Commission, and the Zoning and Planning Commission. Mayor DeOme also volunteered as
as a
board member of the Newcomers Club
and Friends of the Park. He is retired Exxon Mobil financial executive
and was the President of the Exxon Mobil Retirees Club of Austin in
2006.
The Lake Travis Democratic Club is made up of precincts from Lakeway, Bee Cave, Spicewood, Hudson Bend, Lake Wind, and Steiner Ranch.
Lake Travis Democrats meetings are
open to both non-members and members. Annual memberships are $ 20; couples memberships are $
35. Lake Travis Democrats yearly memberships
can be renewed or purchased at the January 11th meeting or by visiting
www.laketravisdemocrats.org. Additional questions about membership, can
be directed to Jo Ann Richmond, Membership Co-Chair, membershipchair@laketravisdemocrats.org or call 627-9451.
For
more information about the club and their monthly meetings, please contact Judy Donohue, Lake Travis Democrats President, president@laketravisdemocrats.org, 214 228-1532, or visit our website at www.laketravisdemocrats.org.
Submitted by
Lucy Oglesby, Public Relations Chair
phone – 326-9902
e-mail – luckcoo@yahoo.com
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PRESS
RELEASE
LAKE
TRAVIS DEMOCRATS
November 2010
The
Lake Travis Democrats will welcome Karen Huber, Travis County
Commissioner for Precinct Three, as their featured speaker for the
Lake Travis Democrats November Meeting.
Commissioner Huber
will address the Lake Travis Democrats at their Tuesday, November 9
meeting at the Lakeway Activity Center, located at 105 Cross Creek in
Lakeway. The meeting will begin at 6:30 pm with wine, non-alcoholic
beverages, and appetizers served as part of a social time. The
business and presentation part of the meeting will begin promptly at
7 pm.
Our
Travis County Commissioners and the County Judge are the chief
policy-making and administrative branch of our county government.
Among their many functions, the commissioners court sets the tax
rate, determines fees for many county services, and determines how
the collected revenues will be distributed among different county
departments to provide services to the community.
Commissioner
Huber was elected to the Travis County Commissioner’s Court in
November 2008. She took office in January 2009. She
brings over 20 years of professional experience in economic
development, real estate development, business management and
electric and water utilities management consulting. Karen has lived
in the western part of Precinct 3 since 1995. In her capacity as
County Commissioner for Precinct 3, Karen serves on numerous boards
and committees. They include the Austin-San Antonio Commuter Rail
District, Austin-San Antonio Growth Corridor, EMS Subcommittee,
Balcones Canyonlands Preserve Coordinating Committee, CAMPO, and
CAPCOG to name just a few. Karen also works with state legislators
to obtain more land-use authority for counties that would help
protect our quality of life and long-term economic vitality. She
strives to address the real problems that our community faces every
day, and to build a responsible plan for growth that ensures that
Travis County remains a great place to live and work.
The Lake
Travis Democratic Club is made up of precincts from Lakeway, Bee
Cave, Spicewood, Hudson Bend, Lake Wind, and Steiner Ranch.
For more
information about the club and their monthly meetings, (second
Tuesday of each month, except for December and the Summer months),
please contact, Judy Donohue, Lake Travis Democrats President,
president@laketravisdemocrats.org, 214 228-1532, or visit our website
at www.laketravisdemocrats.org.
Lake Travis Democrats meetings
are open to both non-members and members. Annual memberships are $
20; couples memberships are $ 35. Lake Travis Democrats memberships
can be renewed or purchased at meetings or by visiting
www.laketravisdemocrats.org. Additional questions about membership,
can be directed to Jo Ann Richmond, Membership Co-Chair,
membershipchair@laketravisdemocrats.org or call 627-9451.
Submitted
by
Lucy
Oglesby, Public Relations Chair
phone
– 326-9902
e-mail
– luckcoo@yahoo.com
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