A. writes: "hi all: info re: alexandria democratic caucus: ADC will hold an assembled caucus Monday, Dec. 1, 2003 at 7 p.m. in auditorium at Minnie Howard School for purpose of electing members to the ADCommittee. caucus will elect 6 membrs from each of the city's 24 precints. any precinct with more than 2500 registered voters will be entitled to one more additional member for every 500 voters above 2500. 10 at-large members shall be elected from each of Alexandria's 3 school board districts. any person seeking election as member must file with Susan Kellom no later than 5 p.m. Monday, November 24, 2003. date/time enforced. if interested, call ADC office, 703-549-3367 or can be downloaded from ADC website,www.alexdems.org."

Mark writes that:

"Every other year, democrats caucus to decide who is on these steering committees. We need to not only get any sympathetic Democrats to come out to those caucuses to vote, but also we need to have a slate of sympathetic Democrats for whom they can vote. I believe that any voter can turn out for these caucuses, although it *might* only be local active committee members.

I am by NO MEANS an expert on this process--in fact, I barely understand it. But it is these committees that help decide whether there is a caucus or a primary. For all I know, they might also be able to control WHEN a primary is held--if having the primary in September rather than June would allow us to get a more viable candidate, then we'd want to push for that. Additionally, if Moran were to be re-elected, these committees might be able to embarrass him/make life difficult for him between 2004 and 2006. We want anti-Moran people in control of these committees, if at all possible."