Congratulations to the new E-board:
6:40 – The battery is dying, so we’re going to limit future blogging to the winners of each race
6:14 – Andrew White was nominated from the floor and is the new Treasurer of the Cornell Democrats! Congrats!
6:08 – Congratulations to Hallie Mitnick, the new Vice President of the Cornell Democrats!
6:04 - Hallie talks about going abroad and how it hasn’t interfered with performance in the past (Ethan was only president for one semester, for example)
6:00 – Will asked about expanding the Dems’ demographics. Andrew says we should go and do things like to go to Ujamaa unity hour, go to the LLC, going to these things and going to these events and promoting the organization. Hallie mentions reaching out to Women’s Resource Center, Kevin Glover Situation, feminist groups, fraternities, etc. Hallie emphasizes that we need to go to each other’s events.
5:58 - Andrew talks about the role of VP being based on necessity: (VP should always be focused on membership drives, etc.) in the first semester, planning of trips, fund raisers, working with campaigns, have open lines of communication with other groups; in the second semester, most important job is membership
5:54 – Hallie talked about doing more fundraising (e.g. two date auctions); need to focus on membership, find alternatives to Drinking Liberally. Work on an intellectual project with Professor Sanders. Would like to see more professors speak (e.g. Kramnick & Brann). For recruitment, need to be at any and every orientation activity. We need to “annoy them just a tad.”
5:50 – Paul withdrew from the VP race
5:47 - Congratulations to the new president of the Cornell Democrats, Terry Moynihan!
5:33 – Max says that the scope of our involvement in campus politics should be limited, both because of our constitution and because of our mission. Terry wants to work with Kyoto Now, discuss Resolution 44 and general LGTBQ right, etc.
5:23 – Terry and Max both said that they would like to take a number of campaign trips, place a high importance on 2010 elections
5:15 – Asked to name one good thing about the other presidential candidate, Max talked about Terry’s extensive knowledge of politics and Terry talked about Max’s great beard.
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