Happy Father's Day, to all you dads.

Yesterday afternoon I went to a kickoff meeting for a new SD Chapter of the CA Clean Money Campaign. I think it went very well. There were about 15 people there. We met at the Coronado library, and Susan Lerner talked about the organization and how they support the chapters. She made suggestions about things we can do to educate others about public financing of elections, and talked about some of the other chapters. It was good. Energizing. She's going to come down from LA again sometime soon and do a couple speaker training sessions for us. I suggested we all attend, even those who aren't interested in speaking to groups because it will help everyone to articulate their ideas more effectively when speaking one on one. Everyone agreed so I think our next meeting or the one after might be the first speaker training.

It's an interesting group. There were two elderly ladies there who sound like their retirement "jobs" are public activism. A guy who has been active in state level politics and is working on his masters in political science. A man who's involved with the election reform group at the largest UU church in town. Others said they've been disgusted about the state of democracy over the last few years. A couple who said they got active when Bush was elected. Just a nice variety of folks. A few will probably have to be reminded to keep it non-partisan, but maybe not. We'll see.