Seems like the Cass Dems
always have the hottest day to be in the Democratic booth at the
Missouri State Fair! Thanks to Barb & JC Davis, Mary Jo Hackett,
Kevin Rusnak, Patty & Jerry Johnson, Cindy Voss, and Denise Wiskur
for weathering the heat and representing Cass County on Saturday, and
thanks to the whole crew who joined in the parade on the 10th with the
Pettis County Democrats!
NOTE TIME
& LOCATION - Join us at 6:30 pm to visit and/or eat pizza in the Van Buren Room at the
Harrisonville Recreation Center
At 7:00 pm we'll
have our committee meeting which will include a discussion of our
candidate recruitment program "Talk to 4 for 2024, an update on the
petition to return Abortion Rights in Missouri, and a look at the
upcoming events where we still need volunteers.
We'll provide the pizza, water, and lemonade. If you'd like to
bring a dessert, that would be great!
Sept 8 and 9th: Belton Fall
Festival Booth. No parade
Sept 14, 15, and 16th:
Raymore Festival in the Park Booth
Sept 16th: Raymore Parade
Oct 6 and 7th: Harrisonville
Log Cabin Days Booth
Oct 7th: Harrisonville Log
Cabin Days Parade
Oct 14th: CassRocks!
Shoot
ALSO
-
Please bring your donation for the August Community Service
project. The Belton Educational Foundation Shoe Pantry is low and
school is about to start. BEF supplies shoes for students in need so
they can participate in PE and other activities. Something so simple
can make a big difference.
Last year we collected 52 pairs of shoes. Please Donate and help
us beat last year's record 
See you Thursday night, August
24th!
Update on the ongoing attacks on our
Cass County Public Library!
For those who don't know the story, the Cass County Commissioners
have been steadily replacing qualified library board members with
completely unqualified political appointments! This led to some pretty
public fights, and publicity last year when they tried to have a book
removed from one section of the library to another, this failed.
However, with the appointment of a 3rd highly unqualified member, this
is now back on their agenda and worse.
- At the August 16 meeting, three of the five-member Board
voted to roll back the tax rate in opposition to the maximum certified
by the state auditor and the recommendation of the library director.
In addition, the actions of these three members included setting aside
the 59.96% vote in favor of Prop L in favor of the 40.04% opposed to
Proposition L and portrayed their overturning of the election and the
majority vote of the voters as respecting and looking out for the
taxpayers! These series of actions will result in a loss of $203,00
for the 2024 budget. If these three members had followed the
recommendations of the state auditor and the library director as well
as honored the vote of Cass Countians there would have been a $412,213
increase in the 2024 budget.
- In addition, at the August 16th meeting, one member
attempted to push through a policy to shelve/move to a “special”
location within the library any number of materials based on “sexual
content.” The categories listed in her proposed policy included books
on puberty and menstruation. This proposal was accompanied by remarks
that appeared to express outrage by this member that her personal
parental oversight beliefs were not being enforced by the current
library policy. By the Board president’s own words, these three
members had already seen the proposal. The other two members had only
received a copy late at night no more than a few days before the
meeting if not the night before the meeting and the Board’s own
attorney, who thankfully was there, said he had not seen it at all
prior to that night even though the Board president put forth a
narrative that attempted to create the appearance that the attorney
had seen the proposed policy prior to the meeting.
What can you do?
Start by attending the
Board work session on Wednesday, August 30 at 4:45 P.M. at Pearson
Hall in Harrisonville. The public isn't
allowed to comment at the work session, but the three in question need
to know they are being seen, and the others need to know they have our
support!
Plan to attend the Cass
County Public Library Board meetings on the third Wednesday of each
month at 4:45 P.M. in Pearson Hall on the upper floor of the library
building in Harrisonville. Get there
early, sign up to speak, and show support for library board members
who are fighting to keep politics out of our public
libraries!
UPCOMING EVENTS
Bring the family
to the 7th Annual 4th District Picnic! The 4th District committee has
rented the main shelter at Harry S. Truman State Park outside Warsaw,
MO on Sunday, October 1st. Bring a side dish and your table service.
We'll provide meat and drinks.
ALL the
Statewide candidates have been invited to speak at this event. This
will be a great opportunity for you to meet these candidates up close
and personal. Candidate speeches, play some horseshoes, fish, and let
the kids enjoy the playground. Let's have some fun with friends and
family as we enter the most important part of this election
cycle.
We'll eat at
Noon with candidate speeches and games to follow.
LAST CHANCE - We still need
survey responses.
Under the
age of 50? Please take our survey
Please share with anyone in Cass
County that's under the age of 50 too!
ATTENTION -
YOUNG DEMOCRATS
And for the purpose of this survey, young
is anyone under the age of 50.
If you've noticed
the Cass County Democrats in parades and booths around Cass County,
you've probably also noticed that the majority of us who regularly
volunteer are over the age of 50 (thus why we've chosen under 50 to
take this survey).
We need help!
We were barely able to staff a booth at Summerfest from Noon to 8:00
pm for one day. In the last election, we were only able to get 4
candidates to run. What are we doing wrong? What can we do
better?
We KNOW that a whole lot of you care, but we
can't turn Cass County blue without volunteers and
candidates!
If you are
under the age of 50, please take this survey. You can answer
anonymously if you'd like, we really want honest answers! If you know
someone under 50 here in Cass that isn't in this group, please share
this link with them. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8TW92C6
If you have
any comments, questions, or concerns to send our way, please know you
can do this at any time to: cassde...@gmail.com
Thank
you!
We have a new
fundraising plan and part of that plan includes being able to give
money to our candidates in 2024 after they file (barring a Primary).
It's hard to start a campaign and we want to give enough for our
candidates to get off to a good start. This plan depends on all of us
"budgeting for Democracy". Have you paid your 2023 annual dues? Have
you thought about a recurring monthly donation? If everyone reading
this email would give $5.00 a month, we'd be well on our way to
reaching our goal for our candidates in 2024! Donate to the Cass
County Democrats
We know political change
takes people working together. It takes people contributing their
time, talent, and treasure to make it happen. We on the Cass County
Central Democratic Committee ask you to give available time, share
your unique talents, and give generously to create a different and
better world for all people in our county and our state. To fund our
ongoing work for the change we ask you to pay 2023 annual dues of $25.00.
If you can give more, that is appreciated. Please let us know if you
want to give for a specific reason or to support a particular cause.
You can donate from our homepage
www.casscountydemocrats.com.
Thank you for all you do and
all you give to make this world a better place.
Jane Hull, Treasurer, Cass County
Democrats
Here's our "employee" listing for
2023-24.
Remember, check out our Cass
County Democrats Facebook Page Events section for other
"Democraty" events in and around Cass County!
August 27th - August Monthly Meeting - Van Buren Room -
Harrisonville Recreation Center
September 8th & 9th - Belton Fall Festival
Booth
September 28th - September Monthly Meeting - with special
guests Representatives Patty Lewis & Ashley Aune
October 1st - 4th District Picnic - Harry S. Truman State
Park - Warsaw
Oct 6th & 7th - Log Cabin Days -
Harrisonville
Oct 4th - 7th - National DNC Meeting in St. Louis
October 14th - 3rd Annual Cass Rocks! - Polecat Creek
Shotgun Park - Harrisonville
November 4th - Johnson County Soupfest -
Warrensburg
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