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dpg logo.jpgThe Democratic Party of Georgia is holding its annual fundraiser, the Jefferson Jackson dinner, on March 22, 2010. The event will be held in Atlanta at the Georgia World Congress Center. Tickets will be $200 per person and $300 per couple. Contact Tim Alborg (tim@georgiademocrat.org) for more information.

Tim Kaine, former Governor of Virginia and now DNC Chair will headline the event. According to the DPG:

Tim Kaine is an example of Democratic leadership at its best. From his early role as a Richmond city council member, Kaine rose through the ranks of governance, serving as mayor, Lt. Governor and eventually the 70th Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. “His core ideals- economic stability, smart growth, improved transportation planning- are all issues Georgians want addressed,” said Matt Weyandt, Executive Director of the Democratic Party of Georgia.

Kaine now serves as the Chair of the DNC. His speech at the Jefferson Jackson Dinner will be the closing event at the Democratic Party of Georgia’s premiere fundraiser. The event will also honor Ambassador Andrew Young and longtime Agricultural Commissioner Tommy Irvin with individual “Georgia Giant” awards.

Recently, another former Virginia Governor, Gov. Wilder, took Tim Kaine to the woodshed based on the numerous losses the Democrats have experienced while Kaine leads the Party.

Gov. Wilder opined this:

a spate of recent losses in races that Democrats should have won underscores what has been obvious to me for a long time: The chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee is the wrong job for him.

and he followed up with this:

Kaine’s recommendation to the Justice Department to transfer one of Virginia’s inmates to a federal jurisdiction, and ultimately to Germany, for possible parole in two years was almost immediately withdrawn by the incoming Republican governor and Republican attorney general. Because of the serious nature of these heinous murders and the clearest evidence of guilt, many are still asking why.

Is that who this president wants to be arm in arm with as we enter a pivotal election year? For his sake, it shouldn’t be. The president has enough to worry about and defend without this detracting sideshow as to feckless party leadership.

Party on Democrats…Party On.

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29 responses to “Get Yer Tickets”

  1. TimC Avatar
    TimC

    I’m attempting a table through my county party with the Young Dems, but not sure if we have enough to fill a table. If we do, or if anyone wants in on the DeKalb YDs table, just give me a shout.

  2. J.M. Prince Avatar
    J.M. Prince

    Thanks Jerry, I had several non PC and unprintable thoughts along those lines. I’m almost certain I can come up with a Top Ten… JMP

  3. JerryT Avatar
    JerryT

    I expect I’ll find some way to support the party, but I don’t think that event will be it.

  4. J.M. Prince Avatar
    J.M. Prince

    Yeah, all just lovely, and the typical & customary CF’s. I can’t tell of the times we’ve been done in by the same ‘dynamic’ too. But I’m unlikely to be getting 10 folks interested in going, so if all else fails, J&J you guys can become honorary members of our county. Of course for that eve only, you’d lose an unspecified portion of your income, become somewhat older, more ambivalent & crankier. So in other words, a pretty typical outcome for the night perhaps. But it’s still a standing offer. And we’re not adverse to ‘commandeering’ tables that otherwise appear empty too. And everyone knows that by now. JMP

  5. Jules Avatar
    Jules

    Don’t think my county party is offering a table $ discount since they lost their shirts on the GADCC dinner last summer.

  6. JerryT Avatar
    JerryT

    We tried that in 2008 J.M. and we ended up with no reserved table- ten randomly assigned seats apparently, despite assurances to the contrary- and when we finally insisted on a table, we got one just outside the service door and behind a column.

    Maybe this time there will be a mechanism for a group purchase that isn’t a recognized “group”.

    I know there were planning issues that year, but nevertheless, somebody else will have to organize that table this time.

  7. J.M. Prince Avatar
    J.M. Prince

    Sorry for the double posts. My computer has been on the fritz. And Catherine, if you can? You might gather all the single folks you’re aware of and try for a table, I think you might be able to swing that deal. If not, we can make some of you (I don’t know the numbers per table) honorary members of my county. But I well understand the frustration. Now recall how many have ever seen the mythical wife at one of these? Not happening. I’m always going alone! JMP

  8. J.M. Prince Avatar
    J.M. Prince

    Well if we’re not telling tales here, ‘tickets though a county party are $100’, but ONLY if someone is fronting for a full table. Or perhaps a very complicated arrangement of ‘fractional tables’ that drove many a DPG intern mad with the ‘marrying details’. It was & is not pretty. And NO, we do not currently ‘have’ such magical $100 tickets, we’d still have to front for them with real cash money in advance. So weeks later you might be collecting some cash from poorly strapped neighbors who happened to be fans of Mr. Kaine, (perhaps former Milledgeville residents all no doubt).

    But yeah, good cause, great prospects, etc. Still @ $100 a ticket? Frankly in a Depression? I might just be drinking alone once again. The people who can afford it, are all retired and need to ‘get back before dark’ to care for even more aged & ailing relations. I can’t think of the last time I went to any event that cost a C note for entrance. Other than the JJ dinner. Some one please send me the details on the county table roulette deal, I need to present it to my folks soon too. JMP

  9. J.M. Prince Avatar
    J.M. Prince

    Well if we’re not telling tales here, ‘tickets though a county party are $100’, but ONLY if someone is fronting for a full table. Or perhaps a very complicated arrangement of ‘fractional tables’ that drove many a DPG intern mad with the ‘marrying details’. It was & is not pretty. And NO, we do not currently ‘have’ such magical $100 tickets, we’d still have to front for them with real cash money in advance. So weeks later you might be collecting some cash from poorly strapped neighbors who happened to be fans of Mr. Kaine, (perhaps former Milledgeville residents all no doubt).

    But yeah, good cause, great prospects, etc. Still @ $100 a ticket? Frankly in a Depression? I might just be drinking alone once again. The people who can afford it, are all retired and need to ‘get back before dark’ to care for even more aged & ailing relations. I can’t think of the last time I went to any event that cost a C note for entrance. Other than the JJ dinner. Some one please send me the details on the county table roulette deal, I need to present it to my folks soon too. JMP

  10. innerredneckexposed Avatar
    innerredneckexposed

    Starcomed’s profile link: http://profile.typepad.com/jkidd

    Smooth move.

    Just saying, best way o get people to pay top dollar for your event IS NOT to spend time here.

    Fucking ay work is slow right now.

  11. Bernita Avatar
    Bernita

    A Public Service Announcement: No one is really anonymous on the internets. I’m just saying…

  12. Jules Avatar
    Jules

    To follow up on Catherine’s point, political fundraisers are very often the one thing folks will go to alone.

    Almost no other social event compares in attendance by singles.

    The message this sends is very negative-it penalizes folks who normally go to these events alone (me-significant other not interested) and also makes the single person feel stigmatized in process, just by opening up the invite.

    Is this really what was intended? Doubtful, however, there are about 20 people I know of they could have run this by. In fact I know more than that, but you get my point.

    Not attending this year due to a “scheduling conflict”.

  13. CatherineAtlanta Avatar
    CatherineAtlanta

    If the DPG wants to encourage attendance at their ONLY major fundraiser, discriminating against single people is not really the best way to go about it. County party ticket discounts are fine, well, except for the county parties that do everything in their power to discourage participation.

    Yeah, Kaine is a great guy, all right. Anti-choice, against gay marriage and gay adoption, claims to be against capital punishment but oversaw numerous executions while Governor of Virginia. Great guy, you betcha!

  14. JerryT Avatar
    JerryT

    Tim Kaine should not have taken the job, and frankly, Obama should not have asked him. What did we expect would happen with a part-time chair?

  15. Drew Avatar
    Drew

    Fair enough, JerryT; I trust your sincerity over Wilder.

    I suppose the DNC could have done more, but I don’t know what more they could have done – they can’t be blamed for the choice of candidate, because the primary electorate was responsible for that in every case.

    Should they have run the campaign for them? Could they have? Is there some set of best practices that the campaigns should have followed but didn’t, and that the DNC should have required in return for support?

    I know nothing about campaigns, so I don’t know – but from what I’ve observed, there aren’t a lot of campaigns that seem to have lost in spite of being well-run or won in spite of being poorly-run, which says to me that the difference between a “well-run” and a “poorly-run” campaign has less to do with the process leading to election day and more to do with the result on the day itself.

    Which is a bit scary in and of itself, because the people who run those campaigns also run our government.

  16. starcomed Avatar
    starcomed

    Oh, come on guys. The couple deal (any 2 people) is a way to encourage more people to come at a cheaper, per person price. The lowest table sponsorship is $2500. Also, tickets through a County Party are $100/person. Kaine is really a great guy who is supporting our President. He’s good on the stump, too!

  17. Kyle Bailey Avatar
    Kyle Bailey

    Democrats have a significant problem placing otherwise qualified and capable leaders in positions that aren’t right for them given their experiences and talents.

  18. JerryT Avatar
    JerryT

    And the DNC has no responsibility/control/influence over that?

    She was 30 points up! How bad could she be! And if she was that bad, how did she get to be the candidate?

    The DNC has to take some responsibility for this. The RNC sure was able to take advantage of whatever weakness she showed. Why wasn’t the DNC able to get the message straightened out and get her back in line?

  19. Jules Avatar
    Jules

    Jerry- she was a terrible candidate, and no one but the voters seemed to notice that.

  20. JerryT Avatar
    JerryT

    I mean, what’s-her-name in Mass. was 30 points up 3 weeks before the election and lost! The Repubs were able to see the swing happening and take advantage of it and we weren’t. That is pathetic. I know it’s a mid-term thing, but that was Ted Kennedy’s seat! OK, so maybe you lose some close ones in mid-term years, but fer cryin’ out loud! That wasn’t even supposed to be close!

  21. JerryT Avatar
    JerryT

    OK fine. Forget about Wilder. I will take Kaine to task. He better start helping us win some elections. We’re not even winning the ones we are supposed to win let alone get any surprise wins. Whatever he is doing ain’t working. If he is going to be an effective Party chairman he better figure out a successful strategy pretty damn fast.

  22. Drew Avatar
    Drew

    Um, what does his support for an income tax increase or for the transfer of a criminal have to do with that performance?

    Wilder is an ass; he doesn’t care whether the Democratic Party is well-run; he’s merely doing what he’s been doing forever, which is trash every other Democrat in Virginia who has ever done anything but stroke his ego.

    He pulled this on Mark Warner, trashing him after he supported a tax increase, and he pulled it on Deeds, too, refusing to endorse him – and as much as endoring McDonnell – after Deeds had the audacity to tell the truth about the need for a tax increase.

    He’s worthless except as a Republican tool, and I see no reason to take his criticism seriously.

  23. J.M. Prince Avatar
    J.M. Prince

    Can I take Dr. Dean for $100? Just asking… JMP

  24. JerryT Avatar
    JerryT

    Well Drew, umm, yes, he is calling him out for poor elective performance.

  25. Melb Avatar
    Melb

    They are not defining “couple” are they? 🙂

  26. JerryT Avatar
    JerryT

    I guess Snuggles can get him and his two closest friends in for $100 each?

  27. Drew Avatar
    Drew

    Wilder is a dick, yes? He never misses an opportunity to ride his personal hobbyhorses.

    He’s not arguing that Kaine has proven to be a poor choice for chair because of how Democrats have fared since Obama’s election, he’s arguing that Kaine was a poor choice because he was, you know, a Democrat: supporting an income tax increase to cover a budget deficit and showing mercy to a criminal, in part in the interest of comity with our allies.

    I could care less about Kaine, but those aren’t reasons for him not to be chair.

  28. Jules Avatar
    Jules

    Oh brother… is this supposed to be some kind of nod to the state of the economy? If so I can really think of better ways to do that.

    BTW has anyone else noticed that our JJ seems to curse whomever comes to speak at it?

    Seriously when was the last time the key note speaker was “energized” by this event, mostly seems like they leave politics, lose the next major election they run for, drop out or fade away. If I were invited to speak I sure wouldn’t accept- me or my date…snark.

    After the Rahm Emanuel appointment, the coronation of Tim Kaine has to be the second biggest disappointment I had in Pres. Obama. EPIC Fail is right.

  29. CatherineAtlanta Avatar
    CatherineAtlanta

    Oh no they DIDN’T! Different price for singles than couples. I thought this had gone out of style ages ago. Really. I’m stunned. Just don’t get it. Does one person of the “couple” get a smaller dinner? No seat?

    Guess it makes sense with a keynote like Tim Kaine.

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