Sue Barrick, Former President of Texas Democratic Women will speak at the May 23rd meeting of Highland Lakes Democratic Women in Meadowlakes Hidden Falls Bistro. The meeting begins at 11:30am with registration at 11:15. Please RSVP to lrippy1946@gmail.com Lunch will be served at a cost of $20 MENU: Pizza Buffet with Salad Sue Barrick was born and raised in rural eastern Iowa literally on the banks of the Mississippi River. Those beautiful natural surroundings and the rhythm of the farming year in the fields around imbued her with a sense of awe and wonder that would lead her to study geology at the University of Iowa. Riding the bus to attend Davenport public schools, she became aware at an early age of the injustices of income inequality among her classmates. She absorbed meeting etiquette, Roberts Rules of order, and a lasting sense of civic responsibility and efficacy during her nine years as a 4-H member. She volunteered in the district office of her local congressman in Davenport and later went all in for the Mo Udall campaign as a student at Iowa. She and husband Jim married in the summer of the nation’s bicentennial, 1976. By 1981 they were the parents of two growing boys and living in Lubbock where he was teaching at Texas Tech University. While mothering and home making were her primary occupations, she worked in an interesting variety of part time jobs and volunteer settings, and pursued postgraduate education, finding her calling as a research editor fairly late in life. The excellent women of the League of Women Voters of Lubbock claimed Sue when she first moved to Texas and humored her for the years it took to overcome her absolute terror of public speaking and serve the group as a board member and officer, and LWV-TX as natural resources chair. When Republican Party interference in the Florida recount put George W. Bush into office in 2000, however, she vowed to be nonpartisan no more. She has since served as a Democratic Party precinct chair, county chair, and SDEC committee member, as well as a founding member and officer of TDW of the South Plains, and as a TDW board member at large, Secretary, Treasurer, Vice President and President. ART TO BE AUCTIONED AT THE MEETING This butterfly picture will be auctioned: REMINDER We will have a social gathering after the meeting in the bar at Hidden Falls Grill with cookies, beverages and fellowship. Hope you can join in! Please RSVP to Connie Stein
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On Saturday, April 13, HLDW won 2nd place in the Burnet Blue Bonnet Parade out of 150 entries. The theme for the float was 'Vote Like Willie' in honor of Texas legend Willie Nelson. Participants included Highland Lakes Democratic Women, Llano County Democrats, and Burnet County Democrats.
The Llano County Democratic Party held its precinct convention on March 23 at the Kingsland Branch Library. Attendees had the opportunity to vote on delegates and alternates to the state conventions, as well as elect new chairpersons for local parties and discuss local party resolutions.
Highland Lakes Democratic Women members Patty Kane, Mary Kane, Annette Maddern, and Fran Day attended. Highland Lakes Democratic Women welcomes Clayton Tucker, who will speak at the March 28, 2024, luncheon meeting at the Hidden Falls Bistro and Bar at 220 Meadowlakes Drive in Meadowlakes, TX. The meeting begins at 11:30am. (Check in at 11:15.) Mr. Tucker is a founding board member to the Killeen Creators, advisory committeeman to Ground Game Texas, advisory committeeman to Blue Horizon Texas, co-founder of the Texas Grassroots Alliance, Field Director of the Texas Young Democrats, chair of the Lampasas Democrats, was elected as a member of the State Democratic Executive Committee, and is the founder of the Texas Progressive Caucus. Clayton also works with the Trade Justice Education Fund to fight for better international trade policies, including ag trade policies. Pizza Buffet with Salad will be served at a cost of $20. Please RSVP to Connie Stein REMINDER We will have a social gathering after the meeting in the bar at Hidden Falls Grill with cookies, beverages and fellowship. Hope you can join in! Please Join Us! Hidden Falls Bistro and Bar, 220 Meadowlakes Drive, Marble Falls 78654 Thursday, February 22, at 11:30 am (check in is at 11:15 am) Lunch will be served at a cost of $20 Please RSVP to Connie Stein This month we welcome Griff Morris. He grew up on the East coast and finished his college years at the University of Texas. He had a 34-year career in printing, publishing and graphics management. In 1984 he joined Highland Publishing Company of Marble Falls as the Commercial Division manager. In 1987 he was promoted to President of Highland Publishing and in 2001 purchased a portion of the company. In 1991 he was elected to a seat on the Marble Falls City Council. Two years late in 1993, he was elected Mayor, and re-elected for a third term as Mayor. In addition to being active in city administration, he was also appointed to serve on the Board of Directors of the Texas Housing Foundation by the county commissioners in 2009 and is still active in that capacity. In 2022, he was elected once again to serve on the Marble Falls city council and filed for re-election in the 2024 city election. MENU Pizza Buffet with Salad January 25, 2024 Speaker: Monique Alcala, Exec. Director of the Texas Democratic Party Location: Hidden Falls Bistro, 220 Meadowlakes Dr., Meadowlakes, TX 78654 Time: 11:30-1:00pm For more information contact Ann Stevenson, 830.637.0132, annstevenson2550@gmail.com In August, Monique Alcala was named Executive Director of the Texas Democratic Party and this month she comes to speak to HLDW. Spread the word, since every Democrat in our community needs to hear what she has to say. Most recently, she was Southwest Regional Director for EMILY’s List, an organization devoted to electing progressive women. Prior to her work at EMILY’s List, Alcala was the Coalitions Director for Biden-Harris in Virginia. She also has an extensive background in local elections, in both rural and urban areas. When it comes to the role of the Texas Democratic Party this year and beyond, Alcala says there’s a lot of work to do increasing voter turnout in communities of color for Democrats. “We need to ensure that we are creating access points for people to get engaged in the party,” said Alcala. She wants to see that all county parties have the resources that they need so that precinct chairs throughout the state can remain active. MENU Pizza Buffet with Salad PLEASE JOIN US Thursday, October 26, at 11:30 am (check in is at 11:15 am) Hidden Falls Bistro and Bar, 220 Meadowlakes Drive Lunch will be served at a cost of $20. Please RSVP to Connie Stein MENU Chicken Tacos with Mexican Rice and a Mediterranean Salas REMINDER We will have a social gathering after the meeting in the bar at Hidden Falls Grill with cookies, beverages and fellowship. Hope you can join in! The Highland Lakes Democratic Women invite you to join us for our meeting luncheon at Hidden Falls Bistro and Bar, 220 Meadowlakes Drive, Meadowlakes TX 78654 on Thursday, September 28, 2023 at 11:30 am, check-in at 11:15. Lunch will be served for $20, payable at the door. Please RSVP to Connie Stein at connie.stein@me.com Our speaker will be Julie Oliver with Ground Game Texas. Julie was born in poverty and relied on Medicaid for prenatal care as a teenager in Texas. The community of support around Julie – the family and friends that generously gave their time and resources to help her raise her baby and finish high school, then go on to college and law school – instilled the sense that nobody bootstraps it alone. And like millions of American families, this country’s failed and disastrous war on drugs has affected Julie in personal ways, with one brother succumbing to addiction in 2018, and another brother in a cycle of pre-trial detention for possession that has overturned his life. The contours of her life experience are what inspired her to co-found Ground Game Texas in 2021. As an organizer, Julie is proud to have fought with communities across Texas, building sustainable organizing infrastructure, coalitions that outlast the boom and bust of the candidate cycle, and achieving real, impactful local wins in multiple elections across the state. And Julie knows how to build for scale, having taken on the entrenched political status quo, massively increasing turnout in neglected precincts over years of work all over Texas. MENU Chicken Tacos, French Fries, and a Caesar Salad |
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