March 09, 2009 06:25 PM UTC

A Day of Democrats: The State Party Re-Org

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• by: Dan Willis

(Significantly less entertaining than the Republican Party reorganization – promoted by Colorado Pols)

In a word: no real surprises here.

On March 8, the State Party Re-Organization meeting of the Democratic Party took place at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.

There were no real surprises:

All five of the State party ofifcers were re-elected, without being challenged:

Chair: Par Waak

1st Vice Chair: Dan Slater

2nd Vice Chair: Margaret Atencio

Secretary: Carolyn Boller

Treasurer: Butch Hicks

We created a new party initiative: The Labor Initiative. They join the following existing initiatives: African-American, Latino, Disabled, Education, Women, Stonewall (LGBT), Progressive, and the Young Dems.

There was an attempt to introduce some rule changes and that created the only controversy of the day. Ultimately, a motion to table the changes was passed so even the necessary logistical changes were left unpassed. That part was sad.

The main controversary was over a plan to reduce the number of alternates elected to the State Assembly. Since the central committee chose to not act on this issue, they have effectively removed themselves from the process. Now that decision will be left to the Delegate Selection Plan. Oh well, they had they chance.

There were also several multi-county Judicial, Senate and House Distict Re-Orgs going on and 6 of the 7 Congressional Districts did their Re-Orgs. No controversaries (that I heard of at any rate) from any of them.

I did get elected Vice-Chair of CD1, btw.