Linda Chavez-Thompson
Template:TOCnestleft Linda Chavez-Thompson is reportedly running for the Democratic Party bid in Texas for Lieutenant Governor against Ronnie Earle.[1]
Labor
She is a former AFSCME organizer and served as a Texas AFL-CIO Executive Vice President and eventually served with John Sweeney and Rich Trumka as chief officers of the national labor federation.[2]
CLUW conference
Speakers at the November 1997 Coalition of Labor Union Women conference in Seattle, included Richard Trumka, and Linda Chavez-Thompson of the AFL-CIO, Nancy Riche, executive VP of of the Canadian Labor Congress and Senator Patty Murray and Rep. Jim McDermott of Washington State.[3]
Pro Democracy Convention
The Pro Democracy Convention was held June 29th To July 1, 2001. It started with a National Town Hall Meeting, Annenberg Center, University of Pennsylvania.
- Come to a National Town Hall Meeting! Hear speakers representing a wide range of communities, including academics, labor leaders,
lawyers, organizers, and elected officials, speak out about Election 2000, recommendations for electoral reform, and how we all can build the movement to expand democracy in the U.S. Partial List of Invited Speakers and Presenters:
- John B. Anderson, Center for Voting & Democracy
- Melanie Campbell, National Coalition for Black Civic Participation
- Linda Chavez-Thompson, AFL-CIO
- Representative John Conyers (Michigan)
- Ron Daniels, Center for Constitutional Rights
- Representative Chaka Fattah (Pennsylvania)
- Margaret Fung, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
- Ted Glick, Independent Progressive Politics Network
- Lani Guinier, Harvard University
- Cheri Honkala, Kensington Welfare Rights Union
- Reverend Jesse Jackson, Rainbow-PUSH Coalition
- Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, Texas
- Representative James Leach (Iowa)
- William Lucy, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
- Henry Nicholas, National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees - District 1199C
- Reverend Al Sharpton, National Action Network
- Hillary Shelton, NAACP
- Nadine Smith, Equality Florida
- Representative Nydia Velazquez (New York)[4]
Center for American Progress
In 2005 Linda Chavez-Thompson served as a trustee of Center for American Progress.[5] Executive Vice President, AFL-CIO
DNC
As of 2012, officers of the Democratic National Committee were;[6]
- Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Chair
- Donna Brazile, Vice Chair of Voter Registration & Participation
- R. T. Rybak, Vice Chair
- Linda Chavez-Thompson, Vice Chair Rep.
- Mike Honda, Vice Chair
- Raymond Buckley, Vice Chair, ASDC President
- Alice Germond, Secretary
- Andrew Tobias, Treasurer
- Jane Stetson, National Finance Chair
External links
References
- ↑ "2010: Ronnie Earle Files for Lite Guv," Texas Tribune, December 18, 2009
- ↑ Chavez-Thompson announced bid
- ↑ PWW, nov. 8 1997, page 3
- ↑ [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/internetdemocrats1/message/4715, internetdemocrats1 · Internet Democrats1, National Town Hall Meeting Posted By: impeach_bush@...Mon Jun 4, 2001]
- ↑ 2004-2005 Annual Report of the Center for American Progress
- ↑ DNC website Leaders page, accessed July 6, 2012