Mike Potishnak of the Belchertown Town Democratic Committee attended a meeting of the State Democratic Party’s Public Policy Committee on March 24, 2017 in Cambridge. The Public Policy Committee basically provides input to the Platform Committee for drafting the Massachusetts Democratic Party’s platform. This is effectively achieved by the fact that a few of the more senior members of the Public Policy Committee are also members of the Platform Committee. Mike notes that he was the only attendee of the several meetings that he has attended who lived west of 495. If you are interested in providing additional representation for Western Massachusetts interests, you can simply show up for these open meetings.
There are 11 meetings that have been scheduled already to allow public input into the platform. They are taking place between April 4th and May 6th, with the closest one being in Springfield on April 8th. If we would like to schedule a platform review meeting in our town, possibly in conjunction with other neighboring towns, it can be done with a 5 business day lead time in an ADA compatible location. Nigel Simon (nigel@massdems.org) would be the person to contact if such an additional meeting is desired. The following is a link to further information about the platform review meetings.
http://massdems.org/media/press-releases/568-massachusetts-democratic-party-announces-platform-hearingshttp://massdems.org/media/press-releases/568-massachusetts-democratic-party-announces-platform-hearings
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