(If you are interested in the TDP platform, you should attend this meeting. Because it is logisticly impossible for elected Senate District representatives to write an entire platform in 2 days in June, pre-meetings like this are where you need to provide your input. - promoted by Karl-Thomas Musselman)
The 2006 Texas Democratic Party Chair's Advisory Committee on the Platform is having its first meeting this Wednesday, May 17, at 10 AM in the AFL-CIO building in Austin. The official party platform will be drafted and approved by the Platform Committee members who will be elected by the senatorial district caucuses at the state convention in Fort Worth. The advisory committee is tasked to draft a working document that the elected Platform Committee may choose to consider at the convention. As you can imagine, it would be virtually impossible to draft a coherent platform from scratch during the convention between 8 AM on Saturday morning and the time the convention adjourns, so the advisory committee drafts a working document.
My name is Scott Cobb and I have been appointed to the advisory committee. There will probably be around 30 people on the committee, although I haven't seen the final list. I expect the committee will have a diverse membership from across the state. I live in Austin in SD 14. If any Democrats in Austin or elsewhere would like to make suggestions for the 2006 platform, please send me your ideas by email to scottcobb99@gmail.com or put them in the comments. I would like to see as much grassroots and netroots input as possible into the platform drafting process.
You can also come to the meeting next Wednesday. I don't know how it will be organized this year, but in 2004, anyone who came to the meeting could participate in the discussion, although if it came down to a vote on any issue, only the appointed committee members could vote.
Here is a link to the 2004 platform. |
