On September 30th, representatives of Mountain Bears Democratic Club interacted with Rim High School students in an effort to register and pre-register them to vote. Sixteen and seventeen year old students can pre-register to vote by submitting an application. On their eighteenth birthday they will be added to the voter rolls. Club members were able to answer questions and create a positive nonpartisan atmosphere, inviting students to participate in democracy. Susan discussed with Stephanie Phillips, Rim staff member, the possibility of Rim High School leaders speaking to our club in the future. Club members established a conduit with Rim teachers, staff and administrators to return and register additional students at a later date.

On Oct 7th, hosted by Beverly at the Spade and Spatula, the Mountain Bears Democratic Club had a party featuring 4 very important “P’s”: Pizza, Post-carding, Prop 50, and Putz. Randy as the guest of honor shared his vision for improving Assembly District 34 and everyone rolled up their sleeves and wrote another 300 postcards! The PROP 50 kickoff party was a great success! Thank you all for your hard work and support!

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Last night (9-29) several of us got together for postcard writing and phone banking. With the work came a mix of seriousness and hilarity, snacks and drinks. Rosemary taught me how to phonebank, something about which I’d been very nervous, and I received encouragement from everyone. Their warm support gave me confidence! I’ve signed up to phonebank again later this week.

Thanks to all of the ladies who came—it’s so nice to be with like-minded people who share a love of country and respect for the constitution. A love of freedom for all Americans, regardless of gender, status, religion, or color encourages us to fight the unlawful and unjust authoritarianism that Trump and his cohorts thrust at us. Thank you Mountain Bears!

Laurie G

Everyday we hear horrific unjust things happening around us. Our loved country, freedoms and rights are being stripped away. Power is consuming truth. Hate and greed is overtaking compassion and humanity.  Love, life and liberty is only as prescribed.

What if I said there was a cure?

 Would you do everything in your power to get it?  The cure is bravery! The cure is speaking up!  The cure is DO SOMETHING!!!  The cure is VOTE BLUE!  The cure is JOIN US!

Our meetings are educational, inspiring, effective, positive and forward thinking.  We have one goal “the cure”.  Together we can make a difference!

In the past as I met people up here on the Mountain and the conversation trailed into politics…. at first I always got “I don’t do politics”. Over time it transitioned to people whispering and looking around before speaking and telling me they agreed with me…definitely closet democrats.  

Well, this week I witnessed change. When I walked into the food bank (Operation Provider, Rimforrest) the three ladies at the front desk were excited to see me. They exclaimed they were Democrats and how the food bank program is in dire straits…not only was their grant cut and demand is growing but now the food donations have gone from 4 flats to 1.  (I wish one of these newspapers up here would do an article on this, not only to show consequences of the vote but also help them get donations). By the way, as I was leaving the conversation moved to Gaven Newsom, might I say…. clearly they were BIG fans.

So today it happened again.  As I walked into the Senior lunch my Dad said “It’s extra crowded today” and then the woman next to us exclaimed “It’s because the prices are going up!”. Me….poking the bear to see her reaction I said “Well this is what we voted for!” only for her to reply “I didn’t” and continue on with how upset she is with what is going on (Yes, I gave her our club card.). After entry I joined a random table with one seat left….trying to feel the room I sat quietly, sizing up the click I was dealing with.  Carefully I asked political entry questions poking the bear again to see the reaction. Can you believe it….as the conversation went on they were mostly ALL democrats and one unhappy Republican.  They openly discussed they were not happy with what was going on.  Actually crazy but true, one of the guys who whispered to me of his dissent of the regime two months ago, also at the table, at one point stood up, raised his voice and blurted out his outrage about the injustice of immigrants going into concentration camps.

Well…. I have to say the blue ripple is turning into a wave and soon we will be surfing the tsunami.

Holiday 🙂

This is the fight of our time. They’re not just after votes—they’re after the rules of the game itself. California will fight fire with fire and make sure every voter’s voice counts.

We have a whole tab on this website devoted to PROP 50:

Click here: https://mountainbearsdemocrats.org/prop-50/

● First time phone banking, email MountainBearDemSecretary@gmail.com to get started.

● Postcards, email MountainBearDemSecretary@gmail.com to sign up.

Shout out to Spade & Spatula for allowing us a table at the Pride Brunch. Please help support businesses that care about the community.

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Address: 27214 CA-189 Ste. G, Lake Arrowhead, CA 92352