[Davis Democrats] Last minute Reminder for January 24 General Membership Club Meeting

[G Richard Yamagata PhD]

GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING AND POTLUCK
with a very timely speaker and subject!

Just a note:  President Arun Sen would like people to get to the meeting
with their food by 6:10PM.  The program will start at 7PM sharp, because of
the vote on the updated by-laws and the speakers.  This is going to be a
full meeting.  We will not be having the election of club officers.  That
was an error in the last newsletter.  

The Davis Democratic Club is Sponsoring
The Sub-Prime Financial Crisis - A Forum Panel
At the Blanchard Room
Date: Thursday, January 24, 2007
Address: Blanchard Room
Davis Branch, Yolo County Library in Davis.
    315 East 14th Street
    Davis, CA 95616
Doors Open: 6PM
Potluck: 6:30PM
Program: 7PM

The club will be asking its members to ratify the new Club By-Laws. To see
these bylaws, click on the links below:
    By-Laws in PDF Format  http://yvm.net/vme/democrats/pdf/BYLAWS-M.pdf
    By-Laws in MS Word Format  http://yvm.net/vme/democrats/pdf/BYLAWS-M.doc

    The M in the filename is after Max Mikalonis, an ex-officio member of
the DDC Board of Directors. Other people that were instramental in bringing
you these by-laws were Betty Weir, Bob Bockwinkel, Carl Schmid, Mike
Syvanen, Claire Black Slotton, and G Richard Yamagata. The By-Laws Committee
is chaired by Jim Provenza. Carl Schmid and Jim Provenza were the driving
forces that brought the club to this point in the by-laws process.  Without
their leadership, the by-laws would have failed to be updated.  We have
tried to do this (update the by-laws) twice before in the last 4 years.

    As for the rest of the program: This is from Mike Syvanen, Vice
President of Davis Democratic Club concerning the speaker's biography, the
title of his talk and a synopsis of the talk.
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The speaker is  Dr Ta-chen Wang who received his PhD in economics 
from Stanford University.  He is on the faculty on CSUS in the 
economics department and teaches and studies monetary policy as well 
as other subjects.

His title will be:

The current mortgage crisis: how did it happen and what if anything can be done

Dr Wang  will give a background to the current credit and financial 
crises that is centered around the mortgage industry and has spread 
throughout international financial markets.  He will provide a 
description of  of the crises and what are some possible future 
dangers, what were the causes and why banking regulations failed to 
avert this crisis and finally will open up with some questions as to 
what could possibly be done in the future.  There are two questions 
that I hope he will be able to bring up.  One is what can or even 
should to bring relief to consumers that are facing foreclosure and 
the second what are some of the kinds of banking and monetary 
regulations that can be considered to prevent this from happening 
again in the future.  Basically, we can consider what we should be 
doing as activist to bring this up as campaign issues for 2008."
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    The suggested donation at the door is $5.

    This is a potluck event. Please come break bread with us and share
pleasant conversation and food with fellow Democrats. Please bring enough of
your favorie food to share with 4 to 6 people. If you do not know what to
bring, the following is the suggested alphabet breakdown by Last Name: 
    A to H Main Course 
    I to P Dessert 
    Q to Z Salad

    For further information contact Bob Bockwinkel at 219-1896 or G Richard
Yamagata at 848-8634.
G Richard Yamagata  PhD
CEO/President   VME Inc.   http://www.vme.net/   http://vme.net/bcards/bio.html
Phone: 530-VIV-VMEI or 530-848-8634

G Richard Yamagata is a member of the Davis Community Network Board of 
Directors, Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Davis Democratic 
Club, President of the board of Virtual Market Enterprises, Inc, 
Secretary-Treasurer of the board of the Davis Progressive Business 
Exchange and communications liason for the Independent Order of 
Odd Fellows Chapter 169 and the Business Link of Woodland and Davis.

For public service to the Democratic Party of Yolo County, 
Recipient of the 2007 Williamson-Weir Award

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