Proxy form for General Session and Party Officer Elections.
The Rules and Bylaws Committee previously met and adopted rules of procedure for the officer elections to recommend to the full assembly for adoption at the General Session on January 31, consistent with the DNC bylaws, which state that the DNC is responsible for:
“providing for the election or appointment of a Chairperson, five Vice Chairpersons, one of
whom shall be the President of the Association of State Democratic Committees and one
of whom shall be the Vice Chairperson for Civic Engagement and Voter Participation, a
Treasurer, a Secretary, and a National Finance Chair, who, with the exception of the
Chairperson, shall be as equally divided as practicable according to gender at the
quadrennial election, as defined in the Democratic National Committee Charter, Article
Nine, Section 16 [Ed.: should be 15]”
The order of elections, according to the proposed rules of procedure, is:
Chair
Treasurer
Secretary
National Finance Chair
Vice Chairperson for Civic Engagement and Voter Participation
and the three other Vice Chairpersons
The DNC charter requires the eight officers other than the Chair to be balanced by gender, which is done by restricting the candidates for the last three Vice Chairs if necessary. As only seven are elected at the Winter Meeting (the eighth is the to-be-elected president of the Association of State Democratic Committees), the balance will be off by one (unless an officer is non-binary).
Join Climate Defiance to shut down the DNC’s winter meeting and demand an end to the unholy alliance of fossil fuel money and party politics!
Democrats failed us in 2024. They sold out to the highest bidders – fossil fuel companies, crypto scumbags, and robber barons – and still lost to Trump.
January 31-February 1, the Democratic National Committee is meeting in National Harbor, Maryland to select a new party chair and chart their path out of last year’s catastrophe.
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The Day Two proposed schedule includes the General Session of the Committee, which will adopt the meeting agenda, receive committee reports, vote on proposed resolutions from the Resolutions Committee, adopt the rules of procedure for the officer elections, and any other business.
Proxy form for General Session and Party Officer Elections.
The last DNC Party Officer Candidate Forum will be held on Thursday, January 30 starting at 3:00 p.m. ET. The DNC is partnering with MSNBC and the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service to co-host our next in-person officer candidate forum in Washington D.C.
Location: Gaston Hall at Georgetown University
37th & O Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20057
If you are attending as a DNC member, please RSVP through this form. If candidate staff or guests are attending the Forum, they should complete this form as well. The Forum will also be livestreamed on the DNC YouTube channel.
The moderators for the Eastern Regional DNC Officer Forum include:
Jen Psaki, Symone Sanders-Townsend, and Jonathan Capehart will moderate the forum for Chair candidates.
Luke Russert will moderate the forum for Vice Chair of Civic Engagement and Voter Participation candidates.
Mo Elleithee will moderate the forums for Vice Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, and National Finance Chair candidates.
All DNC Members are encouraged to submit questions for all forums using this form. Questions must be submitted at least 48 hours before the forum to be considered.
This forum will focus on questions from DNC Members of the Eastern Region.
There will be no elections for Caucus or Council leadership at the upcoming Winter meeting. Caucus and Council voting will occur at the next full DNC Meeting.
Candidates vying for the position of Democratic National Committee chair will convene in Charleston on Friday, Jan. 24, for a forum hosted by South Carolina Democrats and Southern Region DNC members. Organizers include Alan Clendenin, Chair of the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) Southern Caucus, and Susan Swecker, Southern Regional Vice President for the Association of State Democratic Committees.
The event, set to begin at 6 p.m. will take place at the American Theater, located at 446 King Street, with a reception to follow.
The confirmed candidates include former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party State Chair Ken Martin, Wisconsin Democratic Party State Chair Ben Wikler, political strategist Jason Paul. Nate Snyder and Dr. Quintessa Hathaway joined the forum as well.
SCDP Chair Christale Spain expressed her enthusiasm for hosting this event, stating:
“As State Chair of the First in the Nation Democratic Presidential Primary State, I’m excited to welcome Democratic leaders from across the South who are deeply committed to advancing the priorities that matter most to our diverse communities. This forum is a unique opportunity for Southern DNC members to bring their voices, particularly those of Black and rural voters, into this critical DNC Chair election process.”
This forum will focus on the DNC’s Western Regional States: Alaska, American Samoa, Arizona, California, Colorado, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Northern Mariana Islands, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, and Democrats Abroad.
The following reporters will moderate the Western Regional DNC Officer Forum:
Reecie Colbert of SiriusXM’s The Reecie Colbert Show will moderate the forum for Chair candidates.
Todd Gillman of Cronkite News will moderate the forum for Vice Chair candidates.
Gabrielle Birenbaum of the Nevada Independent will moderate the forum for Vice Chair of Civic Engagement and Voter Participation candidates.
Carolina Cuellar of AZ Luminaria will moderate the forums for Treasurer, Secretary, and National Finance Chair candidates.
Schedule:
*All Times are Approximate and Subject to Change
2:00 p.m. ET/11:00 a.m. PT Welcome
2:03 p.m. ET/11:03 a.m. PT Pledge of Allegiance
2:05 p.m. ET/ 11:05 a.m. PT National Finance Chair Forum
2:50 p.m. ET/ 11:50 a.m. PT Treasurer Forum
3:35 p.m. ET/12:35 p.m. PT Secretary Forum
4:10 p.m. ET/1:10 p.m. PT Vice Chair (1 of 2) Forum
5:20 p.m. ET/2:10 p.m. PT Vice Chair (2 of 2) Forum
6:35 p.m. ET/3:35 p.m. PT Vice Chair for Civic Engagement and Voter Participation Forum
Brooke Rollins, of Texas, to be Secretary of Agriculture
The former CEO and president of the extremist Texas Public Policy Foundation, Rollins is a climate denier. She claimed, at a climate-denial conference held by Heartland Institute in 2018, that “We know the research of CO2 being a pollutant is just not valid.”
Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee
On Thursday, January 23, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. in room 1324 Longworth House Office Building, the Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries will hold a legislative hearing on the following bills:
H.R. 231 (Rep. Hageman), “Colorado River Basin System Conservation Extension Act of 2025”;
H.R. 261 (Rep. Carter of GA), “Undersea Cable Protection Act of 2025”;
H.R. 331 (Rep. Fulcher), To amend the Aquifer Recharge Flexibility Act to clarify a provision relating to conveyances for aquifer recharge purposes;
H.R. ___ (Rep. Stansbury), “WaterSMART Access for Tribes Act.”
