Welcome to the official website of the Columbia County Democratic party of Georgia!
Our major goals are to enhance public education, provide universal health care, and maintain public safety. We believe in women's choice, affirmative action, increased minimum wage, recognition of unions as an important aid to labor, campaign finance reform, and environmental protection. We oppose preemptive war but insist that our troops have proper armaments when they are placed in harm's way. We oppose privatization of Social Security and we oppose a ban on gay marriage. Also not fans of kids in cages or the family separation policy at the border. We seek the science needed to survive this pandemic intact.
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Become A Member
Pay Individual dues here:
Pay Family dues here:
Print and mail this application if you don't like online shopping to the PO Box on the form: 20150203-membershipform.pdf
Meetings
CCDP Meetings are typically held on the first Monday of every month, at 6:30 pm at the Columbia County Government Complex, Building A, at 630 Ronald Reagan Drive, Evans, GA 30809. Check out this year’s meeting calendar. We are Zooming in April on Monday. the 10th. Meeting Commences at 7pm.
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Latest News
Message from Cathi Fredriksen, Chair, CD-12
Today the Georgia House rapidly pushed a bill through Committee, and while its outcome might not have a direct affect on you or a loved one, it will definitely impact others in a most horrific way. Allowing puberty blockers but not the hormones that would help folks transition, those affected will be trapped in their pre-pubescent bodies with potentially life-long irreparable damage because they'll potentially be spending YEARS on those blockers until they're old enough to qualify as an adult. This bill is REALLY important (in the wrong kind of way) and has far-reaching implications beyond trans youth care. In the most recent version of this bill, they included the ability to sue medical providers which is nothing short of extortion, as well as a slippery slope in regard to one of the less commonly understood reasons why healthcare is so exorbitantly high in this country in the first place. America is a litigious society, bent on suing for any and every slight, and thereby doctors have to carry insurance against lawsuits aka malpractice insurance. This insurance can cost doctors in excess of $400k a year depending on specialties and other factors (gender, for one. Crazy, huh?), and this bill could increase those premiums and those added expenses get passed down to YOU. Please sign/email/call and voice your opposition to this incredulous bill. The so-proclaimed party of personal freedoms is for their own freedom, but not yours.
Today the Georgia House rapidly pushed a bill through Committee, and while its outcome might not have a direct affect on you or a loved one, it will definitely impact others in a most horrific way. Allowing puberty blockers but not the hormones that would help folks transition, those affected will be trapped in their pre-pubescent bodies with potentially life-long irreparable damage because they'll potentially be spending YEARS on those blockers until they're old enough to qualify as an adult. This bill is REALLY important (in the wrong kind of way) and has far-reaching implications beyond trans youth care. In the most recent version of this bill, they included the ability to sue medical providers which is nothing short of extortion, as well as a slippery slope in regard to one of the less commonly understood reasons why healthcare is so exorbitantly high in this country in the first place. America is a litigious society, bent on suing for any and every slight, and thereby doctors have to carry insurance against lawsuits aka malpractice insurance. This insurance can cost doctors in excess of $400k a year depending on specialties and other factors (gender, for one. Crazy, huh?), and this bill could increase those premiums and those added expenses get passed down to YOU. Please sign/email/call and voice your opposition to this incredulous bill. The so-proclaimed party of personal freedoms is for their own freedom, but not yours.
Our own Aladien Fadel is inviting you to Eid-Al-Fitr at the Islamic Community Center at 1 Islamic Center Drive, in Martinez on Tuesday, March 28.
Doors open at seven. Short presentation and then the fast is broken at eight. Event ends at nine. Contact alfadel@hotmail.com to receive an invitation to this very special holiday!
Doors open at seven. Short presentation and then the fast is broken at eight. Event ends at nine. Contact alfadel@hotmail.com to receive an invitation to this very special holiday!
BOARD OF ELECTIONS MEETINGS
The Columbia County Board of Elections conducts monthly meetings on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at 10:30am in the Board of Elections Office conference room. Remember, it's above the early voting floor in the government complex. Protect nonpartisanship and observe the process.
The Columbia County Board of Elections conducts monthly meetings on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at 10:30am in the Board of Elections Office conference room. Remember, it's above the early voting floor in the government complex. Protect nonpartisanship and observe the process.
- STORE IS STILL OPEN!
- Upper right hand corner of this page. Order away and we will get things printed and in your hands as fast as possible. Check periodically for our new shirts on clearance! There will be some new ones who want to wear the Columbia Country Democrats logo on your front.
EVERYONE LIKES RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. WE DO TOO.
Contact your reps about a possible anti-religion bill (unless you are a particular kind of Christian). Text is here, helpfully supplied by Aladien Fadel.
Email to send:
*Feel free to write a personalized email, or edit this template as desired. If you are Jewish, we recommend you include that detail.
Dear Representative,
My name is ______ and I live in _____, Georgia.,
I am writing to ask you to vote NO on HB 30. While ostensibly designed to protect Jews from anti semitism, HB30 instead violates Georgians’ first amendment rights and equates criticisms of Israel with antisemitism.
HB30 utilizes the non-legally binding International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, which is worded in such a way as to intentionally equate legitimate criticisms of Israel and advocacy for Palestinian rights with antisemitism. Not only does the definition fail to satisfy the basic requirements of a legal definition, but it equates Jewishness and Judaism with the State of Israel - a conflation that is fundamentally untrue.
HB30 will not eliminate hate, bigotry, and acts of violence. It will only serve to blur the meaning of real antisemitism and erode free speech and Georgian’s first amendment rights to speak out about a country's human rights violations. Additionally, the new version of the bill will amend the GA code relating to terroristic acts to include vague descriptions of “antisemitic imagery” used with an “intent to terrorize.” This additional criminalization will provide for enhanced punishment of what should be protected, even if hateful, speech.
Please email all members of the Georgia House Rules Committee (and their staff) to state your opposition to HB 30. You can write one email with all the email addresses below- we highly encourage you to put the emails in BCC form.
If you would like, it is powerful to contact your own Representative as well. To find your rep, click here or fill out CAIR-Georgia’s form to have this info populated for you.
richard.smith@house.ga.gov
mandi.ballinger@house.ga.gov
rick.jasperse@house.ga.gov
james.beverly@house.ga.gov
james.burchett@house.ga.gov
chuck.efstration@house.ga.gov
jan.jones@house.ga.gov
samuel.park@house.ga.gov
shaw.blackmon@house.ga.gov
john.carson@house.ga.gov
sharon.cooper@house.ga.gov
katie.dempsey@house.ga.gov
karla.drenner@house.ga.gov
gerald.greene@house.ga.gov
stan.gunter@house.ga.gov
matt.hatchett@house.ga.gov
lee.hawkins@house.ga.gov
bill.hitchens@house.ga.gov
scott.holcomb@house.ga.gov
carolyn.hugley@house.ga.gov
mack.jackson@house.ga.gov
david.knight@house.ga.gov
eddie.lumsden@house.ga.gov
chuck.martin@house.ga.gov
mark.newton@house.ga.gov
larry.parrish@house.ga.gov
alan.powell@house.ga.gov
Contact your reps about a possible anti-religion bill (unless you are a particular kind of Christian). Text is here, helpfully supplied by Aladien Fadel.
Email to send:
*Feel free to write a personalized email, or edit this template as desired. If you are Jewish, we recommend you include that detail.
Dear Representative,
My name is ______ and I live in _____, Georgia.,
I am writing to ask you to vote NO on HB 30. While ostensibly designed to protect Jews from anti semitism, HB30 instead violates Georgians’ first amendment rights and equates criticisms of Israel with antisemitism.
HB30 utilizes the non-legally binding International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, which is worded in such a way as to intentionally equate legitimate criticisms of Israel and advocacy for Palestinian rights with antisemitism. Not only does the definition fail to satisfy the basic requirements of a legal definition, but it equates Jewishness and Judaism with the State of Israel - a conflation that is fundamentally untrue.
HB30 will not eliminate hate, bigotry, and acts of violence. It will only serve to blur the meaning of real antisemitism and erode free speech and Georgian’s first amendment rights to speak out about a country's human rights violations. Additionally, the new version of the bill will amend the GA code relating to terroristic acts to include vague descriptions of “antisemitic imagery” used with an “intent to terrorize.” This additional criminalization will provide for enhanced punishment of what should be protected, even if hateful, speech.
Please email all members of the Georgia House Rules Committee (and their staff) to state your opposition to HB 30. You can write one email with all the email addresses below- we highly encourage you to put the emails in BCC form.
If you would like, it is powerful to contact your own Representative as well. To find your rep, click here or fill out CAIR-Georgia’s form to have this info populated for you.
richard.smith@house.ga.gov
mandi.ballinger@house.ga.gov
rick.jasperse@house.ga.gov
james.beverly@house.ga.gov
james.burchett@house.ga.gov
chuck.efstration@house.ga.gov
jan.jones@house.ga.gov
samuel.park@house.ga.gov
shaw.blackmon@house.ga.gov
john.carson@house.ga.gov
sharon.cooper@house.ga.gov
katie.dempsey@house.ga.gov
karla.drenner@house.ga.gov
gerald.greene@house.ga.gov
stan.gunter@house.ga.gov
matt.hatchett@house.ga.gov
lee.hawkins@house.ga.gov
bill.hitchens@house.ga.gov
scott.holcomb@house.ga.gov
carolyn.hugley@house.ga.gov
mack.jackson@house.ga.gov
david.knight@house.ga.gov
eddie.lumsden@house.ga.gov
chuck.martin@house.ga.gov
mark.newton@house.ga.gov
larry.parrish@house.ga.gov
alan.powell@house.ga.gov
STEP UP AND SUPPORT OUR SCHOLARSHIPS!
The Columbia County Democratic Party’s scholarship Committee has been awarding scholarships to seniors in Columbia County since 2010. We have awarded 37 deserving seniors each a $500 scholarship, totaling over $18,500. Last year, we presented three $500 awards to deserving high school seniors. We fund the scholarship program almost entirely through donations. We are now able to accept your donations through Paypal.
Thank you to all of you who have contributed throughout the years, and we hope your generosity will continue. This is a worthy cause, and something that all Democrats in Columbia County should embrace.
This is one the more prominent reach-outs to the community from our party. Press the button below to donate.
Thank you to all of you who have contributed throughout the years, and we hope your generosity will continue. This is a worthy cause, and something that all Democrats in Columbia County should embrace.
This is one the more prominent reach-outs to the community from our party. Press the button below to donate.
Maybe Trump was right about something. "So much winning" is a good feeling. Well done, Columbia County Democrats!
UNDERSTANDING SB202
Everyone's heard of it, but no one knows exactly what it has changed. You may hear from some quarters that it changes nothing, but nothing could be further from the truth. Read and scroll through below.
BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETINGS
2023 schedule posted here.
NOT GETTING PARTY EMAILS?
If you've asked to be put on our email list but haven't been receiving announcements from the Columbia County Democratic Party, please contact columbiacntydems@aol.com. We want to be sure that everyone who wants to be included is on the list. Thank you.
NOTES ON BEING A COMMITTEE MEMBER
Attendance
Attendance
Following election to the County Committee, members are expected to be at every regularly scheduled monthly meeting, unless extenuating circumstances prevent attendance. In the event a member cannot attend a meeting, he or she shall notify the Secretary or the Chair as soon as practical, unless extenuating circumstances prevent that communication. Notification may occur by text, phone call, or email. Every County Committee member is expected to attend the meetings of any sub-committee to which he or she is assigned (or for which he or she has volunteered). Communication with the sub-committee chair shall occur in the same manner as that of regular monthly meetings. If a County Committee member misses a 3rd consecutive monthly meeting without prior notification, his or her seat shall immediately be deemed vacant by the Chair and seconded by the Secretary. In the event this occurs, a notice shall be sent to the entire County Committee as soon as practical stating both the declaration and the reason.
Revised County bylaws now available to view here.