Polk County Democrats

For basic security reasons, the Executive Committee has decided to change the code on the lock-box we use to gain entrance to the party HQ at off-hours, and has already done so.  All of you who use that lock box will have to learn the new code, so when you next have to independently access the HQ, call one of the Executive Committee members (here, or here) who know you and get the new code.  More at "read more..."

Please help our candidates by showing up and marching in the Tryon 125th Anniversary parade on Saturday, September 4.  Details are in the party e-mail, reproduced in "read more..."

Sample ballots and absentee ballots are supposed to be ready for distribution by Friday (9/3), but so far no sign of them at the BOE.  We can't finish the elections page or the Pocket Ballots until we have the sample ballots, so -- we wait.  More at "read more...:

No primaries this week, in fact none for the next two weeks (until 9/14), when all the rest of them will be run...

Be off with you, civilians, it's time for the junkies to talk primaries, at "Read more"...

The Teen Dems organizing meeting, originally scheduled for September 1, has been postponed a week, to Wednesday, September 8, from 7-8 pm at the HQ.  The notice of the meeting is here.

Young people are the most frustrating non-participants in the political process imaginable; it is they with their energy and enthusiasm who should be the real workers in the party, but not so.  They are nowhere to be seen.  Laura Price is taking the lead to try to correct that, and for how, click "Read more"...

It may be a reflection on human nature that such devices [checks and balances] should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

-“Publius,” from the Federalist Papers