Your faithful organizers didn't stay still long enough to collect dust this week. We have made significant progress and the excitement is growing. A meet-up date and location has been set as well as a meet-up venue that you are sure to love. We have compiled a list of "Attending" and "Maybees" and hope to grow the former list tonight. There are other updates and observations and the suggestion box is available for your input. Sooo, scroll on down in a southerly direction and get this thing started.
Drawing from the responses in last week's diary as well as kosmail replies and the votes from the organizers -- JaxDem, Gordon20024 and Vetwife -- the meet-up location is Valdosta, Georgia and the date will be on Saturday, November 14th.
Wishing we could have sampled offerings from each of the restaurants with banquet rooms, we finally settled on one that held high reviews and was a regular meeting spot for several area organizations: Ole Times Country Buffet. Having a venue conveniently located a half mile off of I-75 was another factor that weighed heavily in our choice along with a buffet menu that offers something for every taste. The room will be available to us from 11:00 - 3:00 and possibly later.
If the cost of a meal will tax anyone's budget, please notify me by kosmail. Likewise if anyone would like to join us and hasn't because of a lack of funds. We may be able to help, but we can't help if you don't tell us. All names will be kept completely confidential.
We will issue an invitation to the Lowndes County Democratic Party club, which is headquartered in Valdota, to be our guests since we will be meeting right in their backyard and you can never have too many democrats as friends and contacts.
Below is our RSVP listing. We hope some of the "Maybees" are ready to move over to the "Attending" list and that more folks are ready to commit tonight.
Attending
- JaxDem
- Gordon 20024
- Vetwife
- Vet
- kay3295
- Lily O Lady
- PHScott
- Nannyberry
- nancyjones
- susanala
Maybees
- soaglow
- pajoly
- Josiah Bartlett
- Randallt
- Joieau
- OPOL - One Pissed Off Liberal
- foresterbob
* Special Note: orlbucfan lives in downtown Orlando, she is seeking a ride to the meet-up. She will contribute towards driving expenses.
The Agenda is just beginning to take shape. We've agreed on no more than two speakers to allow for ample Q & A and discussion time. The focus will be all or in part on Voter Registration, Voter Suppression, Voters' Rights, Voter Discrimination/Jim Crow, and Black Lives Matter. I have a lead on a local speaker that I will invite by week's end and hope to have a positive response to report in next week's update. We have some possibilities for the second speaker, if we choose to offer one, but no decision has been made as yet.
Now we need to hear from you!
If you need a ride or have a ride to offer, let us know and I will add the info to this diary and subsequent diaries. Tell us if you plan on staying overnight and want to book into a hotel that other attendees plan on using. If you know other kossacks that may be interested in attending or might want to join the group let us know.
Final Notes and Odds & Ends:
- Name badges will be provided and we will have more info about them in a few weeks
- There will be a discussion on future meet-up(s) at the conclusion of the program in Valdosta
- We must insist on no discussion on individual candidates. Friends, they serve real pies there and things could get messy.
- Weekly update dairies will be posted on Thursday evenings at 7:45pm eastern time
- If you have any petitions, action items, etc. that can be shared at the meet-up let us know and we will print them out and place them on our handout table
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Florida Georgia Line Kossacks welcomes everyone to join our group; let us know in the comments if you are interested in joining or send a kosmail to either the group or to me, JaxDem. We appreciate any and all help in turning our states a more pleasing shade -- Blue! |