CDC - October Meeting - Healthcare

[Abby Hendrix]

Columbia Democratic Club ~ October News

National to Local ~ A Discussion About Healthcare

Please join other Democrats in Howard County for a discussion on
health care with

Congressman Jon Sarbanes and Glenn Schneider

Congressman Jon Sarbanes has served in the U.S. Congress since 2007.
Congressman Sarbanes has nearly two decades of experience working in
the private, public and non-profit sectors. He has been appointed to
the Energy and Commerce Committee where he serves on the Health
Subcommittee and the Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection
Subcommittee and and he is also a member of the Natural Resources
Committee with a special focus on parks and federal lands. He has
represented non-profit hospitals and senior living providers in their
mission to deliver high quality care to the people of Maryland. He has
a firsthand understanding of the pressures that rising costs and the
persistent shortage of qualified care-givers are placing on these
providers and the families they serve.


Glenn E. Schneider, MPH is the Director of Health Policy and Planning
for the Howard County Health Department. Mr. Schneider is an advocate
for affordable health insurance coverage for all Marylanders.
Schneider has been a guest speaker at many universities and
institutions across the country on the topics of community organizing,
implementing health policy, and strategic planning and is currently a
health systems adjunct professor at the University of Baltimore. Glenn
was awarded the 2008 James W. Rouse Community Builder Award from the
Howard County Democratic Party.
Canned Food Drive

Columbia Democratic Club would like to thank all members and guests
for collecting 100 pounds of canned goods for the Howard County Food
Bank.
We have made it our goal to collect 1000 pounds and we are 10% of the
way there.
Help us by bringing canned foods and toiletries to support Howard
County Residents in need.

Bring your canned goods to the October Meeting

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Young Democrats of Howard County invite you to a

Meet and Greet with District 9A Candidates
Jim Adams - State Senate
Rich Corkran - State Delegate
Maryann Maher - State Delegate
Jon Weinstein - State Delegate

Wednesday, September 30, 2009
6:00 - 8:00 pm

The Diamondback Tavern
3733 Old Columbia Pike
Ellicott City, MD
410-418-5696

$20 donation apprecited

For more information, contact Kristin Neville at Nev...@aol.com or
410-418-5696

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You Are Invited to the 3rd Annual Family Picnic

Honoring County Executive Ken Ulman

Hosted by Friends of Ken Ulman

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Nixon's Farm
2800 Route 32
West Friendship, MD 21794
410-442-2151

Children - 10 or younger - No Charge!
$25 per person for folks over 10

RSVP to monica...@verizon.net. For more Info contact Susan Smith-
Bauk 301-570-1034

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Free Drive-Thru Seasonal Flu Clinic

Get your FREE seasonal flu shot or FluMist.
Stay in your car! We'll come to you!

When: Sunday, October 4, 2009
10:am to 2pm

Where: Columbia Gateway Drive
Enter from Rt. 175
Columbia, MD

Adults, please wear short sleeves!
Children less than 3 yrs of age should wear short pants.

Get your seasonal flu shot early this year.
Get your H1N1 flu shot(s) when they become available.

Need updated flu guidance, visit www.hchealth.org or call 410-313-6503
for recorded info.

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Volunteers Needed

The Howard County Office on Aging will host its 11th annual 50+ EXPO
at Wilde Lake High School, 5460 Trumpeter Road, Columbia

October 16, 2009 from 9am to 4pm.

Volunteers are needed to help the Howard County Democratic Party staff
it's booth from 10am to 4pm.

Please call 410-290-9791 and indicate what time would be best for you
to help.

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You are invited to Support the Work of

Senator Jim Robey

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at

Elkridge Furnace Inn
5745 Furnace Avenue,
Elkridge, MD

6 to 8pm
Buffet

Contribution: $75 per person

RSVP to TeamRo...@verizon.net or call 443-820-3346 by October 15th

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It is with pleasure that we continue to provide a service to Democrats
in Howard County and Beyond. Our October program is an attempt to
provide our local community with information first hand. Hope to see
you on October 14, 2009 at 7:00 pm.

Sincerely,


Abby Hendrix
Columbia Democratic Club

[Ann Geddes]

Hi Abby:

About one month ago I emailed the CDC with my concerns about the Columbia gyms airing Fox news.  As you may know, Larry Carson from the Sun contacted me to write an article on the subject.  Between the totally frivolous way Larry wrote the article (with inaccuracies), and his editors removed all the context of my arguments from the article (according to Larry), I ended up looking like a complete moron.  Larry encouraged me to pursue the topic with a letter to the editor - I do not want to waste my time any longer with the Sun.

At any rate, I will be out of town and unable to attend the CDC October meeting as I had hoped.  I had wanted to make the following points:

• The Columbia gyms are private facilities
• Fox "News" is deeply offensive to many club members - not because it has a conservative bias (I read the Wall Street Journal), but because Fox consistently reports things that simply are not true; because it organizes, promotes and funds conservative political activities; and because it has sunk the political dialogue to a level of outrageously vitriolic rhetoric that is totally absent of meaningful content.  No other news station operates in this way.
• Because Fox "News" is so offensively politicized, many club members find it objectionable.  Therefore CA should stop airing Fox in the large public area of each of its three athletic facilities (where it now runs)
• If CA wants to continue to run Fox News because some patrons like it, then they should air the liberally biassed (but still no where near as outrageous) MSNBC News alongside the TVs that are running Fox.

When I made this argument to Bob Bellamy and Phil Nelson at CA, I was told that I was the only person who had complained.  They would continue to air Fox and refused to air MSNBC.

At the same time that I contacted CA, I contacted my CA Board member, Alex Hekimian, who supported my position and wrote Phil Nelson telling him so.  Mr. Nelson did not reply to Mr. Hekimian.

I am not asking that CDC to take a position.  I request that CDC ask its members (and its members ask their friends) who object to CA gyms airing Fox News (especially without the counter presence of MSNBC) to contact their CA board members and say so.

Thanks for your time.

Ann Geddes

[Abby Hendrix]

Ann,

 

I was actually hoping you could be there.  Why don't you write a letter and I will gladly make copies and in my comments to the membership I will give a breif overveiw and encourage them to write letters.  If you need anything else, please call me at 240-461-9803 or email me.

 

Abby