Finding an Event

By Alta Price

I wanted to get this up ASAP to use for the Iowa Democratic Party State Convention this weekend in Des Moines. I have not been able to come up with a plan to get DFAers attending the convention and/or those who live in Des Moines together this weekend. Friday night we don’t want to conflict with the Hall of Fame Dinner. Some of us aren’t even coming down until Saturday morning (e.g., me). Saturday we don’t know how long the convention will run. What’s an organizer to do?

At someone’s brilliant suggestion (Sue? Sorry, can’t remember who!), we finally decided to share cell phone numbers and plan on the fly as events unfold. I set up two separate events at DFA-Link – Meet DFAers in Des Moines Friday and Meet DFAers in Des Moines Saturday.

If these links do not take you to the appropriate event pages, you can find them yourself now that you have a DFA-Link account (see previous blog post). Use the search tool and your zip code. If your zip code doesn’t do it, use this one – 50309 (zip code of Convention Center). Once you find the event, read the details (ignore the times and places – I had to put something in but these will change), and RSVP. Once you RSVP, the host can contact you through DFA-Link messaging (look for DFA-Link messages in your email inbox).

If you don’t want to go the DFA-Link route, but want to get together, just email me with your contact information and whether you are interested in Friday or Saturday or both. I will share your information with the Friday host (since I won’t be there on Friday).

We want to have a “formal” statewide Democracy for Iowa meeting sometime in September. But we’d also like to meet more informally at events like this. Maybe we can use DFA-Link more effectively to link up!

Alta Price altaprice@yahoo.com