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Senator Roy Terwilliger will be our Featured Speaker at the Tuesday, April 28th, Full Committee Dinner Meeting
Please make your Reservation.
The evening social hour begins at 6:00 p.m., dinner at 6:30 p.m. with an $8 dinner donation for adults and $4 for students. District announcements will be made at 7:00 p.m. and follow with honored friend of SD 41 has agreed to be our featured speaker – Senator Roy Terwilliger at 7:30 PM. Bill Cooper has had to postpone his appearance with us because of a scheduling conflict that couldn’t be resolved. Please call the SD 41 Republican Office at 952.848.4272 or e-mail sd41gop@hotmail.com to place your dinner reservation by Saturday, April 25.
Roy has served SD 41 and the entire State of Minnesota in many capacities over the years but most notably as two-term State Senator from SD 41 and most recently as head of the Sports Stadium Commission. Please welcome Roy back among friends and honor his service with your attendance. He will speak at the Senate District 41 Republican Full Committee Dinner Meeting on Tuesday, February 24 at Calvary Lutheran Church located at 6817 Antrim Road in Edina. You can read his bio at the MN Legislative Reference Library of Legislators Present and Past: http://www.leg.state.mn.us/legdb/fulldetail.asp?ID=10660
From the Chairs – Lew and Lynn:
Greetings everyone! Spring has finally come to Minnesota – Really!
The lawns are turning green again and Spring Break is over and our off year convention was a great success, albeit somewhat lightly attended. Since there were no burning issues to be worked out and the agenda was not lengthy or controversial, the election of officers and State central delegates and alternates went as smoothly as one could have hoped. Bill Peterson, a long time friend and former House member from Bloomington, did a fabulous job as Chair of a smooth and thoroughly open process. His long experience and calm integrity was a pleasure to watch as each item was handled smoothly and fairly from beginning to end. Many Thanks, Bill!
And speaking of elections for officers, one of the hardest working groups I’ve ever had the pleasure of watching, came together to interview a long list of very exciting new faces running for seats on our Executive Committee and as delegates and alternates to State Central. Jan Schneider gathered a fabulous group of volunteers who put in some long afternoons and late evenings to come up with slates of serious candidates for SD 41 offices and we would all be remiss if we didn’t thank Jan and all of her Officer Search Committee for a long hard job superbly done.
Thanks to all the efforts of all who volunteered and all who attended, we are once again invigorated with new energy and new voices and new ideas to carry forward the new beginnings we’ve made over the last year. We’ve already held our first Executive Committee meeting and begun organizing subcommittees around specific areas of interest and importance, and the opportunities for involvement by anyone interested in being part of an exciting new enterprise are almost endless.
Before we close this letter, we also would very much like to thank those who are moving off the Executive Committee after years of valuable contribution to all we’ve achieved. John Huetmaker, Janet Ridge, Tom Couillard and Joyce Edward contributed mightily in ways too numerous to itemize. Their energy and knowledge and commitment have been behind every success and their wisdom and perspective have been unfailingly valuable. We will miss them very much!
And now, as we look forward into the upcoming campaign season, we have much hard work to do and new hearts and minds with which to do it. Let’s go!
Special Thank You's
Thank you to Jan Schneider for chairing the Nominating Committee. The Committee met for over ten (10) hours including an organizational meeting and three meetings to interview candidates for the Executive Committee in addition to being available at the beginning of the convention. Eighteen candidates were interviewed with questions provided by Schneider. A job description for Vice Chairs was shared with all Vice Chair Candidates. The Nominating Committee also approved a slate for State Central delegates and 1st and 2nd alternates.
Thank you to three (3) members of the Executive Committee who did not run for re-election:
John Heutmaker provided leadership as the Literature Drop Chair for last fall’s election. He also served on the steering committee which started the Precinct Officer Group which now meets quarterly. Heutmaker has previously served as the Fundraising Chair for SD 41. He continues as the Chair of Bloomington Precinct 16.
Tom Couillard provided leadership as our Voter Vault expert along with data management of the senate district’s database. He also could be counted on to lend a hand at full committee dinners making coffee, serving dinner, and doing clean up. Couillard continues as the Co-Chair of Bloomington Precinct 17.
Janet Ridge was the newest member of the Executive Committee having been elected at the full committee meeting in November. She brought a fresh perspective to the Executive Committee. She agreed to step in as Precinct Chair in Edina 13 when the previous Chair moved out of Edina. Ridge continues as the Precinct Chair.
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