Chairman Torres send congratulations to San Bernardino County Chair Carol Robb and the hardworking Dems in that county doing such great work on voter registration. 

Carol reportst that new voter registration figures for San Bernardino County have been posted! 

Democrats -- 291,328
Republicans -- 300,757

A week ago, the Rep edge was 10,104. This week, their edge has dropped to 9,429! 

Press Release: California Democrats Shatter Record

In the final 45 days (60 days pre-election, December 7, 2008 to the January 22, 2008 15-day cut-off) prior to Election Day, the Secretary of State’s report of registration shows Democrats added 150,633 voters to bring its total to 6,749,406 or 43.0 percent of registered voters statewide.

Altogether, 244,202 voters were added to the voter rolls in this period, and the Democrats’ total of 150,6377 registered is 61.7% of the total – a record for California.

In comparison, in the final 45 days of the 2004 presidential primary, Democrats added only 68,007 voters, just 46.5% of the increase of 146,129.

“History is about to be made with either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama and Californians overwhelmingly want to be a part of the excitement as registered Democrats,” said Senator Art Torres (Ret.), Chairman of the California Democratic Party.

“Our grassroots around California and the Clinton and Obama campaigns went all out to register Democrats, and we have not seen this level of enthusiasm in a presidential primary in decades,” added Torres. 

From Martha Gamez, CDP's Deputy Political and Outreach Director: 

About 75 Stockton area Democrats gathered to watch Bush's final State of the Union address.  The event was sponsored by the Stockton chapter of Drinking Liberally and held at the Valley Brew, where we had the banquet room to ourselves.  We booed; we hissed; we snickered; we rolled our eyes -- and we played Bush Bingo!

Spirits were high as we contemplated the 2008 elections and our opportunity to finally be rid of GWB and the Republicans across the country!

Thanks to Kern County Chair Candi Easter for sending this post in.  Click here to see more pics from the training.

On Saturday, January 12, more than 50 Democrats from all over the state converged on for a California Democratic Party Skills Academy. 

CDP Political Director Crystal Strait led the instruction,  assisted by CDP Deputy Political Director, Martha Gamez. Democrats came from as far away as Riverside, Davis, and Hollister to learn the techniques to needed succeed in 2008.

Several members of the California State Democratic Party Latino Caucus were also in attendance as well as members of The Desert Democrats from Ridgecrest, Tehachapi Mountain Democrats and The Democratic Women of Kern. The Skills Academy was an all day event and lunch was provided by The Kern County Democratic Party.

Form A is now available for filing as a district level-delegate to the National Convention in Denver.  That's a lot of Ds! 

We tried to make it as easy as possible for you to complete the form online and file it.  You will have to print the form after you have submitted it online and then fax or mail it so we have your signature on file, but otherwise the process should be totally automated. 

Yes, you can also print the Form A and fill it out manually, but filing online will save us from having to enter in all your information (big enough hint?). 

Click here to read all about it!

Bob Mulholland is back from New Hampshire, but it's like he's still there!  Watch his interview with GoLeft, where he talks about the importance of California's February 5 Primary.