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
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
posted by Drake Dems @ 9:22 AM
2 Comments:
At 10:58 PM,
Anonymous said…
The Drake Dems are one of the most active groups in the state and possibly nation??? Shouldn't that mean the website is at least updated on a regular basis? You guys have all those positions for people...why? I can't even tell what the group does... Just my 2 cents. I think you guys have a long way to go before you can claim you're an active group.
At 5:16 AM,
Drake Dems said…
While we've kinda stopped updating the blog because it wasn't too helpful, just check out the calendar of events and pictures from the main site and I think you'll see why we're one of the more successful organizations around. Not to mention the quality of speakers we bring in, like Governor Vilsack, who we're hosting tonight.
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