Hope to see you there.

Linda Cates

From The New Yorker

Identifying herself as a “cultural conservationist” (but by no means a cultural conservative), Jacoby laments the decline of middlebrow American culture and presents a cogent defense of intellectualism. America, she believes, faces a “crisis of memory and knowledge,” in which anti-intellectualism is not only tolerated but celebrated by those in politics and the media to whom we are all “just folks.” The Internet, for all its promise, is too often “a highway to the far-flung regions of junk thought.” Meanwhile, twenty-five per cent of high-school biology teachers believe that human beings and dinosaurs shared the earth, and more than a third of Americans can’t name a single First Amendment right. In such an environment, Jacoby argues, the secular left and the religious right can have no fruitful dialogue on issues like the separation of church and state. She offers little hope that the situation will improve, opining that, despite increasing levels of education, “Americans seem to know less and less.”

When: Saturday March 13th, 1:30 PM – 5 PM

Where: Keene Public Library, Kay Fox Room

RSVP: Wyatt Fore – 603-225-6899

In addition to hearing from NHDP Chairman Buckley and staff and party leaders from the State House and Senate, summit attendees will participate in breakout sessions designed to strengthen our local infrastructure, give activists the tools they need to succeed, and help committees begin developing their local campaign plans.

Active planning on a county-by-county level will be critical to our successes in 2010, particularly since there will be far fewer organizer-types that was characteristic of the 2008 coordinated campaign.  It falls on local committees to organize our towns, state rep districts, and counties, and to bring out the vote on Election Day, 2010!

In general, there has been overwhelmingly positive feedback from the other counties, since the summits are less on the speaking program/lecture format, and more on active planning and break-out groups.

If we remain in the majority after the 2010 elections, we will be able to control re-districting in New Hampshire for the first time in history.  Needless to say, our current State Rep and State Senate Districts heavily benefit Republicans, so re-districting this time around will be critical for Democratic successes in the next decade.

Hope to see you there.
Linda Cates

From The New Yorker
Identifying herself as a “cultural conservationist” (but by no means a cultural conservative), Jacoby laments the decline of middlebrow American culture and presents a cogent defense of intellectualism. America, she believes, faces a “crisis of memory and knowledge,” in which anti-intellectualism is not only tolerated but celebrated by those in politics and the media to whom we are all “just folks.” The Internet, for all its promise, is too often “a highway to the far-flung regions of junk thought.” Meanwhile, twenty-five per cent of high-school biology teachers believe that human beings and dinosaurs shared the earth, and more than a third of Americans can’t name a single First Amendment right. In such an environment, Jacoby argues, the secular left and the religious right can have no fruitful dialogue on issues like the separation of church and state. She offers little hope that the situation will improve, opining that, despite increasing levels of education, “Americans seem to know less and less.”