Liberal Date Auction a success!

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Liberal Date Auction! It was a huge success: we had a turnout somewhere between 150 and 175 students (making it one the best organized events on campus this year), and we auctioned off 20 dates, bringing in an amazing $611! That way more than makes up for the cost to put on the event, so we'll have quite the budget for this upcoming semester... we just need to figure out what to spend it on.

And thanks again to everyone who worked on it; it was a lot of work, but paid off very nicely. I think we got a lot of new people interested in the Drake Democrats and showed them that politics can be pretty fun. All the advertising and organization of the event so well, in fact, that some folks from the Iowa Democratic Party want planning notes from it to show other College Democrats organizations how to put one on. I know that Smith College has done some in the past and so UMass Amherst has one coming up I think. But it looks like few others, so hopefully we'll be able to help some other groups raise some money.

We'll have a general meeting before the semester is out, on a Thursday night at 7 like usual. But there isn't enough time left and everyone is busy with finals to do any other major events. So we'll just get a good plan down for next semester. If you've got any ideas on events we can do then or what we can spend the money on, leave a comment.

-Patrick Rynard
President, Drake Democrats

Liberal Date Auction--TONIGHT!

Alright guys, its time to bring the $$$ and buy some hott Drake Dems. Tonight is our biggest event in years: the Liberal Date Auction. Our event starts off tonight with a rally at 7 PM on Pomerantz Stage in Drake University's Olmsted Center.

Here is the official order of those being auctioned off (with Greek representation next to name):

• Laurel Herold (Alpha Phi)
• Chris Lueth (FIJI)
• Christina Motilall (Kappa Kappa Gamma)
• Cale Johnson (Sigma Chi)
• Rachel Manuel (Alpha Phi)
• Sam Kelly
• Brianne Lucke
• Steven Amos
• Sarah Seidman (Alpha Phi)
• Mike Goldberg
• Rachael Stanger (Kappa Alpha Theta)
• Nate Koppel (Tau Kappa Epsilon)
• Alix Sanchez
• Jordan Oster
• Megan Hill (Alpha Phi)
• Jen Coppa (Alpha Phi)
• Tim Tesar (Sigma Phi Epsilon)
• Kailyn Heston
• Patrick Rynard

Pictures and slogans can be found here.

Please come out tonight--there's free punch, even if you don't bid on/buy someone. Come support your Drake Dems: We fight for freedom with fun, not insults and attacks.

First-ever Drake Democrats Liberal Date Auction

Tomorrow night is the first-ever Drake Democrats Liberal Date Auction (and Rally!) at 7 PM in the Olmsted Student Union--Pomerantz Stage. Here is a message from Drake Dems President Patrick Rynard about the auction:

"It's here! Thursday night at 7:00pm we will hold our biggest event of the year with the Liberal Date Auction. Make sure to bring lots of your friends out to a really exciting and fun night, over at Pomerantz Stage in Olmsted.

And in response to the many negative feelings over the College Republicans' "Freedom" Week, we will hold a short, really exciting rally. We will have a quick RALLY speech about the Democratic Party, and we absolutely promise you, you will not want to miss it. The rally will be at 7:00pm, and we'll get right into the auction very quickly, but be sure to come for it all.

A whole, whole lot of work has gone into this event, so please come out and bring lots of people, it's going to be an amazing night. And thank you so much to everyone who has helped in making it a success."

It should be an amazing time. Oh, and we're having a competition among the Greek houses on campus as well with a special award for the fraternity/sorority representative who garners the largest bid--the Greek Greek 'Hottest Piece of Ass Award'.

If you're interested in seeing some of the dates up for bidding and their hilarious slogans, check them out here.

Liberal Date Auction - ideas?

Our biggest event of the semester is coming this next week - the Liberal Date Auction. It should be a lot of fun with liberals getting auctioned off - it'll be hopefully have the largest attendance we've had for any event yet.

This weekend we're working on posters and other publicity for it - if you've got any ideas of fun little slogans or lines to advertise with, leave a comment. We're trying to be funny/suggestive without going too far. Some slogans we're working on so far:
- Come for love, not war
- She's very liberal on social issues
- He'll turn you into a red state
- I want YOU, to bid on me
- Lookin' for a first lady
- He can outlast any filibuster (too far?)

There's numerous much worse/obscene ones we've come up with...

Anyway, get excited for the auction and bring all your friends!!
See www.drakedems.com for all the precise information