[Peace] Tonight's the night: CC Dems to vote on endorsing Keith Ellison for DNC

[Robert Naiman]

At tonight's meeting of the Champaign County Democratic Central Committee,
we'll vote on whether to endorse Keith Ellison to be the next chair of the
Democratic Central Committee. The meeting is at 7pm, at the CCDems office
in downtown Champaign.



The list of Central Committee members eligible to vote - that is,
Democratic precinct captains - is here:



https://www.champaigncountyclerk.com/elections/docs/committeemen_democratic.pdf



Of those folks, my understanding is that the following have indicated that
they support Keith and plan to attend the meeting:



Faruq R.A. Nelson

Danis R Pelmore

Charlene Stevens

Josh Hartke

Aaron O. Ammons

Eric Jakobsson

Ruth Wyman

Christopher Stohr

Jared Miller

Robert Naiman

Sandra Hansen

Maryam Ar-Raheem (party chair.)



(David Brayfield supports Keith but he is out of town; Evan Keller supports
Keith but he has moved.)



If someone is not on that sub-list, it doesn't necessarily mean they
oppose; it may just mean we haven't reached them yet in the last few days.



Check the list of other folks and see whom you know. If you don't have a
phone number for them, maybe you have an email address or can message them
on Facebook.



https://www.champaigncountyclerk.com/elections/docs/committeemen_democratic.pdf



The following link may be useful. It's the endorsement of Keith by the
Illinois Democratic County Chairmen’s Association. The link includes a list
of Illinois Democrats who have endorsed Keith, including Senator Tammy
Duckworth and Rep. Carol Ammons.



http://ildcca.org/2017/01/idcca-endorses-congressman-keith-ellison-dnc-chairman/



Here's the national endorsement list:



https://keithfordnc.org/endorsements/

I'm hoping for an overwhelming yes vote tonight. I'm looking forward to
calling Emily in the state Dems office tomorrow morning and telling her
that Champaign County Democrats have voted overwhelmingly to endorse Keith
to lead the DNC. Emily reports to Mike Madigan and his deputy, the state
party chair, both of whom will be voting in February on the next DNC chair.


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Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
(202) 448-2898 x1
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