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Join the Oldest Democratic Women's Group in Alabama!
The Madison County Democratic Women's Division is the oldest Democratic
Women's group in Alabama...established in 1961.
Each month, we feature A luncheon or dinner on the first Thursday of every month at the Holiday Inn Research Park at Madison Square Mall featuring a guest keynote speaker.
April Meeting
Join us on Thursday, April 3rd to hear Alabama Supreme Court candidate Deborah Bell Paseur.
Judge Paseur has 27 years of experience as a District Judge in
Lauderdale County and has recently retired to campaign for the only
open seat on the Alabama Supreme Court in 2008.The meeting will be at the Holiday Inn -- Research Park (5903 University Drive, at Madison Square Mall) in Huntsville. Registration will begin at 11:30 for the noon meeting. Although the meeting is open to the public, reservations are requested.
Call (256) 656-8787 or email madisoncountydemocraticwomen@gmail.com for reservations and information. There is a fixed price of $16 per person for those who wish to eat lunch. You may specify either a chicken or a vegetarian meal.
March Meeting
Our guest speaker for the March 6th luncheon was Glynn Wilson, a veteran free-lance journalist with 28 years of experience, including nine years of that teaching writing at the university level. He has published in The Nation magazine, the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor and the Dallas Morning News as well as some of the best alternative weeklies in the country, including Gambit Weekly in New Orleans. He has taught at the University of Alabama, the University of Tennessee, Georgia College and Loyola University New Orleans. He has been a Web publisher for 10 years, and most recently has published The Locust Fork World News and Journal for the past three years since returning to his native Birmingham after a stint in DC, where he free-lanced for Time magazine and States New Service, in the run up to the 2004 election. He is considered the definitive source for information online about the political prosecution of Don Siegelman, since he did the first in-per son, on-the-record interview with Jill Simpson in June, 2007. For his early work on that story, he was awarded a full grant from The Nation Institute’s investigative fund to continue the investigation of that case, which results in a 2800 word story that is still considered the definitive work on it to date.
Feb. 7th -- Anniston Star Editor Bob Davis on Politics and the Media
On Thursday, February 5th Bob Davis, editor of the Anniston Star newspaper in Alabama,
spoke to the group on "Politics and Media." The cable news media are covering the
presidential primaries like a combination of the finals of American
Idol, the impending birth of a Hollywood celebrity's baby and a missing
blond woman (a Fox News house specialty). They treat it like it's a
race about a race, not a race about correcting the course of the United
States. Who's covering the disgraceful influence of money in politics?
Who's digging deeply into candidate plans for health insurance? Who's
covering how candidates plan to deal with climate change? And what will
all those plans do to ordinary folks? Too few news outlets are asking
these questions. They're not covering politics; they're covering
personalities. Politics is how a democracy charts its course -- and the
media have a serious responsibility in this process.