George,

In response to your inquiry about the American Candidate program, I did receive notice of it several weeks ago. I was not sure how to evaluate it as far as a focus for the Albemarle Democratic Committee was concerned, so I forwarded the note to the Steering Committee. I received no response from anyone on the Committee, so I took no action. It was not discussed at the Steering Committee meeting as it seemed pretty clear that no one had any interest in such a discussion.

I am still not sure what the true impact of this type of programming will be. My feeling is that the County Steering Committee has got several pressing items on its agenda right now. We are organizing a voter registration / voter identification drive in the County on June 26. We have just completed the first edition of a newsletter to the larger Committee and any other subscribers that might be interested. These two projects have clear impact as to the energizing of the County Democratic Party as will as increasing the pool of voters for the November election. I simply determined that since there was no interest on the part of the Steering Committee that my best effort was to focus my attention and the attention of the Steering Committee on the projects that I mentioned above.

Thank you for your inquiry, but let me assure you that we will be involved if it would become clear how the programming might assist the County Party in its effort to contribute to a victory for Al Weed in Congress and John Kerry for the White House.

Fred Hudson, Chair (electronic mail, June 23, 2004)
Albemarle County Democratic Committee