January Meeting
We meet on the First Thursday of each month at 6pm. We are currently conducting our meetings in person with a 1/2 hour social gathering time prior to the formal meeting.
I know that this meeting is right after the New Year but I hope that we see you there. If we manage to have a quorum, we will vote in the 2025 slate of officers.
Our Mission
The Lake Ashton Democratic Club (LADC) of Polk County, Florida is an active political organization that serves as a common meeting ground for all Democrats. Dedicated to furthering the ideals of the Democratic Party, we also welcome non-party affiliated kindred spirits.
Snowflakes Are Back!
Get Involved with a great group of like minded individuals to help prepare for the 2023/2024 Elections. We meet every Tuesday evening at the HFC Community Ctr in the poker room from 6-8pm.
Snowflakes at Work!
This is important work that helps your fellow Democrats to be (re)Elected!
Our Democratic Way of Life Is At Risk!
If you want to save our Democracy, you have to VOTE!
If you want a say in what gets put into law – VOTE!
(You know what the Republicans stand for! If you want that, vote Republican)
That means vote in local and county elections. That means vote in State elections. That means vote in National elections.
That means vote in EVERY election!
DON’T LET DEMOCRACTY DIE FROM APATHY
80 MILLION REGISTERED VOTERS DON’T VOTE!
DON’T LET DEMOCRACY DIE FOR YOUR CHILDREN
Save yourself time and frustration… Vote by Mail!
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Upcoming Events
Lake Ashton Democratic Club Monthly Meeting
The Lake Ashton Democratic Club meets at the Lake Ashton HFC on the first Thursday of every month at 4:00pm. Please join us.
Pictures from our three Socials
Please Join Us for the Next Social Get-Together – Thurdsay, 2/6 at the HFC, 6:00 PM
The club is supplying Pizza, Beer, Wine, Soft Drinks and Water. If you would like to contribute food, salads would be recommended. Please contact Dee Mayne (dee.mayne@gmail) to coordinate. Our Februrary Monthly Meeting is going to be taking place as well. This should be a good time to meet your Democratic neighbors as will as other LADC members for fellowship.
LAKE ASHTON DEMOCRATIC CLUB PRESENTS
ISSUES WE CARE ABOUT
- Jobs and the Economy
- Taxes and the Budget
- Social Security * Medicare * Health Care
- Quality Education for Us and Our Grandchildren
- Environment/Climate Change
- Energy: Now and in the Future
- National Security and Immigration
- Income Inequality
- Women's Rights
- Voter's Rights
Please join fellow Democrats...
In helping the Polk County Democratic committee have sufficient money to do their JOB and turn Polk County Blue. How is that possible? After all, we are very busy and our time is worth a lot!
Simply sign up for a small monthly re-occurring donation. Polk County DEC supports ongoing monthly contributions automatically charged to your credit card. It’s simple and painless. For less than the price of lunch out, you can help support our candidates. Just go to Polk County Democrats/contribute!
Personal Opinions...
Our Democracy Is at Risk!
Our Democracy is in serious risk of failing! It’s easy to see how it happened, why vote when it seems like nothing ever changes. So, twenty percent of the population isn’t even registered to vote! Our voting system is based upon one person, one vote. And of the voting population, only sixty-seven percent of those eligible voters voted in the 2020 election! That was the highest voter turnout in the 21st century. Many third world countries have voting participation approaching 90%. The largest number of people who didn’t participate in the voting population was our youth.
Letters to the editor: Gov. DeSantis policies nauseate
These were a couple of opinions recently published in the Palm Beach Post.
The Year that Was – 2022
2022 is the year THAT WAS. It was the year that we retained our democracy; or, it was the year that we lost our democracy. The words of Thomas Paine, the famous pamphleteer during the American Revolution, ring true today:
Our constitutional crisis is already here
The United States is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the Civil War, with a reasonable chance over the next three to four years of incidents of mass violence, a breakdown of federal authority, and the division of the country into warring red and blue enclaves. The warning signs may be obscured by the distractions of politics, the pandemic, the economy and global crises, and by wishful thinking and denial. But about these things there should be no doubt:
Texas and Supreme Court should be ashamed!
I’m not pro-murdering babies. I’m pro-Becky who found out at her 20-week anatomy scan that the infant she had been so excited to bring into this world had developed without life sustaining organs.
Hold Trump accountable in order to heal
Republican like Sen. Marco Rubio, R-FL,
