If you weren’t able to join us September 10, 2017, for this year’s Jackie Stevenson Dinner, here are some photos from the evening:
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2017 Jackie Stevenson Dinner Reservations Still Possible
We upped our numbers a bit in case there are a few more people who’d like to join us September 10
If you’re unable to make a firm ticket purchase, but are planning on attending, please email us at info@dfl3cd.org with the specifics so we can make certain a place is reserved for you NO LATER THAN SEPTEMBER 6.
This year’s emcee will again be Buck Humphrey.
In addition to our keynote speaker, U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu, we are honored to have the following dignitaries scheduled to attend:
- U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison (tentative)
- U.S. Rep. Tim Walz
- Commerce Commissioner Mike Rothman
- State Sen. John Hoffman
- State Sen. Steve Cwodzinski
- State Rep. Andrew Carlson
- State Rep. Cheryl Youakim
- State Rep. Debra Hilstrom
- State Rep. Erin Murphy
- State Rep. John Lesch
- State Rep. Laurie Pryor
- State Rep. Paul Thissen
- State Rep. Tina Liebling
- St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman
- CD3 DFL Candidate Adam Jennings
- CD3 DFL Candidate Dean Phillips
- State DFL Chair Ken Martin
- State DFL Vice Chair Marge Hoffa
- DNC Member J.P. Barone
- DNC Member Lori Sellner
- Commissioner Victoria Rhinehart
2017 CD3 DFL Jackie Stevenson Award Winners
Minnesota 3rd Congressional District Democratic Farmer Labor (DFL) is pleased to announce the following volunteer award recipients of this year’s Jackie awards. Their outstanding efforts to build and support the DFL will be acknowledged at CD3 DFL’s September 10 Jackie Stevenson dinner.
The 2017 Jackie Stevenson Award for Volunteer of the Year is Phyllis Richerson, Chair, SD44. Phyllis worked for years to develop awareness of the DFL party and values in Senate District 33 prior to redistricting. As CD3 secretary and now the current chair of Senate District 44, she’s bringing new ideas and energy to the DFL in Minnetonka and Plymouth. Phyllis is an amazing repository of wonderful ideas and suggestions to help other chairs build their districts and never fails to support others in their work. We are proud to work with Phyllis to make CD3 a bluer district every day. Continue reading “2017 CD3 DFL Jackie Stevenson Award Winners”
Dem rep: Trump North Korea statements ‘reckless’
The following article by Max Greenwood was posted on the Hill website August 11, 2017:
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) on Friday slammed President Trump’s rhetoric toward North Korea as “reckless” and urged him to pursue a diplomatic solution to Washington’s escalating tensions with Pyongyang.
“We need to engage in diplomacy. That’s the one thing that Donald Trumphas not yet done,” Lieu said in a video posted on Twitter by VoteVets, a progressive advocacy group.
“And before the president takes us down the dark and bloody path of a catastrophic war, he needs to first engage in diplomacy,” he added. “He owes that to the American people and I call on the president to do that first before issuing provocative and senseless and reckless statements.” Continue reading “Dem rep: Trump North Korea statements ‘reckless’”
The @nti-Trump: Rep. Ted Lieu hits the president where he lives
The following article by Gabby Kaufman was posted on the Yahoo News website August 9, 2017:
There’s no evidence President Trump, in his Twitter persona of @realDonaldTrump, has been paying any attention to Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., or even to @tedlieu. He hasn’t replied to any of the second-term congressman’s provocative tweets, hasn’t bothered to insult or attack him and hasn’t unleashed on him the army of trollbots supposedly working in the service of the Trump campaign.
Others are paying attention — Lieu’s 337,000 followers, at least, representing an increase of hundreds of thousands in the months since he began his campaign of answering the deluge of bombast and untruths from the president’s Twitter account with his own stern correctives.
It’s a thankless job — unless you are, say, a certain 48-year-old minority-party backbencher from Torrance who has been rewarded with newfound stature in his party and increased face time on cable news.
Continue reading “The @nti-Trump: Rep. Ted Lieu hits the president where he lives”
What are his generals telling Trump on North Korea?
The following article by James Hohmann with Breanne Deppisch and Joanie Greve was posted on the Washington Post website August 10, 2017:
THE BIG IDEA today is by Robert Costa. James returns next week.
Remember this scene?
“These are central casting. If I’m doing a movie, I’d pick you general,” a smiling President Trump said months ago (see the video above) during his inaugural luncheon at the Capitol, pointing at Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. “And General Kelly,” he added, gesturing toward John F. Kelly, his pick to run the Department of Homeland Security.
Those were simpler times. Now, it’s August and as he works from his golf course in Bedminster, N.J., President Trump is facing one of the biggest crises of his presidency: escalating hostility from North Korea, which intelligence reports show has miniaturized a nuclear warhead. Continue reading “What are his generals telling Trump on North Korea?”
2017 Jackie Stevenson Awards Nominations
Have someone you think represents the idea of our award namesakes?
Please take a moment and complete the form below and click the “submit” button at the bottom:
The committee will review this nomination form as well as what is provided. No additional research will be done.
Nominations must be received by end of day August 23, 2017.
If you print out the form and want to mail it, nominations should be mailed to:
Cheryl Poling
18980 Pheasant Circle
Eden Prairie, MN 55346
Prefer to submit a paper copy? Download a copy here: 2017 Jackie Stevenson Awards
Democrat to ‘Lyin Sessions’: Stop the lies and the leaks will go away
The following article by Brandon Carter was posted on The Hill website August 5, 2017:
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) this week blasted Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ announcement that the Department of Justice is considering stricter measures to prevent leaks, saying the leaks would stop if there were no “lies, crimes and stupid stuff.”
“Dear Lyin Sessions: Leaks are interesting if they expose lies, crimes & stupid stuff,” Lieu tweeted Friday. “Stop the lies, crimes & stupid stuff and leaks go away.” Continue reading “Democrat to ‘Lyin Sessions’: Stop the lies and the leaks will go away”
Trump Tweets Suggestion of an ‘Uprising’ if Trump-Russia Grand Jury Indicts
The following commentary by TommY Christopher was posted on the Independent Journal Review website August 4, 2017:
President Donald Trump is engaged in a monumentally dangerous new phase in his battle against the ever-progressing Trump-Russia collusion investigation, a phase which the mainstream political media has so far missed badly.
At his West Virginia rally Thursday night, Trump issued a thinly veiled threat that his millions of supporters are counting on special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation to go his way.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) noticed the new strategy on Friday morning, observing that Trump retweeted a much more explicit suggestion along the same lines: Continue reading “Trump Tweets Suggestion of an ‘Uprising’ if Trump-Russia Grand Jury Indicts”
Rep. Ted Lieu speaks to activists working to oust GOP Rep. Dana Rohrabacher at ’empty chair’ town hall
NOTE: We’re posting this article to give you some background on Rep. Ted Lieu, our keynote speaker at this year’s Jackie Stevenson Dinner.
The following article by Javier Panzar was posted on the Los Angeles Times website August 1, 2017:
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) got a rock star’s reception Tuesday night at an Aliso Viejo town hall organized by liberal activists in Orange County who are working to oust Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Costa Mesa).
Activists invited Rohrabacher to speak but he declined.
The event instead served as a pep rally for activists and a networking event for the stable of Democratic candidates seeking to challenge Rohrabacher in 2018.
Rohrabacher’s seat has been rated a toss-up by political prognosticators, and some of his challengers have been raising money at a considerable clip despite being new to politics. Continue reading “Rep. Ted Lieu speaks to activists working to oust GOP Rep. Dana Rohrabacher at ’empty chair’ town hall”