Skidaway Island Democrats Alive and Well.
Tom Oxnard is Chairman of the Skidaway Island Democrats. Tom and I communicate from time to time, and I am on his e-mail list for group meetings. From time to time Tom has invited me to join his group for one of its meetings, but our schedules never seemed to coincide.
When I got notice of a meeting his group was having this past Wednesday, conflicts did not matter. I could not resist a trip to Skidaway Island.
As a program Tom had a distinguished panel of three prominent area attorneys to discuss the current state of the federal judiciary, congressional action in this regard, and related issues.
The panel consisted first of longtime trial attorney and Savannah civic leader Walter Hartdridge of the firm Bouhan, Williams & Levy; Armstrong State Professor Becky da Cruz who teaches law and criminal justice; and one many party regulars no doubt know, practicing Savannah attorney Joe Steffen (Joe is a Vice Chairman of the Chatham County Democratic Committee, also teaches a couple of law courses at Armstrong State) .
If you didn't know it before, we learned that "liberal activist judges" are judges with whom the Republicans do not agree, and that much of Rep. DeLay's complaining and manipulations involving the judiciary is not about partisan politics; it is about control of judges.
This, thrown in with a little of Karl Rove, Inc.'s attempts to control the role of judges, is causing America to face the prospect of what Thomas Jefferson warned against, the "tyranny of the majority."
The topics were obviously timely, and the presentations truly professional and fantastic. And if the panel thought it was through when the last speaker finished, it was mistaken. The group asked questions until Tom had to cut them off because it was getting late.
What a show! What an evening! I didn't pull in into my driveway until 12:00 or so, but I would not have passed up the evening with such a good group of Democrats for anything.
And I also appreciate 1st Congressional District Chair Danita Knowles accompanying me to Skidaway and back. Danita is always good company.
When I got notice of a meeting his group was having this past Wednesday, conflicts did not matter. I could not resist a trip to Skidaway Island.
As a program Tom had a distinguished panel of three prominent area attorneys to discuss the current state of the federal judiciary, congressional action in this regard, and related issues.
The panel consisted first of longtime trial attorney and Savannah civic leader Walter Hartdridge of the firm Bouhan, Williams & Levy; Armstrong State Professor Becky da Cruz who teaches law and criminal justice; and one many party regulars no doubt know, practicing Savannah attorney Joe Steffen (Joe is a Vice Chairman of the Chatham County Democratic Committee, also teaches a couple of law courses at Armstrong State) .
If you didn't know it before, we learned that "liberal activist judges" are judges with whom the Republicans do not agree, and that much of Rep. DeLay's complaining and manipulations involving the judiciary is not about partisan politics; it is about control of judges.
This, thrown in with a little of Karl Rove, Inc.'s attempts to control the role of judges, is causing America to face the prospect of what Thomas Jefferson warned against, the "tyranny of the majority."
The topics were obviously timely, and the presentations truly professional and fantastic. And if the panel thought it was through when the last speaker finished, it was mistaken. The group asked questions until Tom had to cut them off because it was getting late.
What a show! What an evening! I didn't pull in into my driveway until 12:00 or so, but I would not have passed up the evening with such a good group of Democrats for anything.
And I also appreciate 1st Congressional District Chair Danita Knowles accompanying me to Skidaway and back. Danita is always good company.
posted by Sid Cottingham | 1:32 PM
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