#642, Club Bulletin, March 13, 2017
Posted by Mary Wildermuth on Mar 13, 2017
Our Meeting will be at Muscatine Community College at the Bob Roach Little Theatre in Strahan Hall due to the impact of Monday's tornado event!! See you at noon at MCC!!
Program for March 13, 2017: Muscatine's Airport
Invocation: Rick Gosney
Guests today: Megan Francis guest of Caitlin Ryan and potential new member. John Hendrickson guest of Chris Ingstad and Wayne Steen, District Membership Chair.
Happy News: Judi was thankful that Naomi DeWinter found her treasured bracelet. Harvey Allbee is happy that Jeff Kauffman is here today and also that the Muscatine Journal is back without the Quad City Times news. Marv Krieger is happy that the History Channel will be shooting in Muscatine this week with the documentary airing in August. Erika Cox is pleased with the concert she attended. Rich Dwyer is glad Kegan graduated from Iowa State and is employed!! His niece is also playing outstanding college softball. Caitlyn Ryan is moving on to work for the Hon Company and is happy to introduce Megan Francis from Sunnybrook. Sal LoBianco is pleased to say he spent last week skiing with his children in Colorado. Mike Ruby is happy that Shane Orr and Erika Cox have stepped forward to be our next Presidents!
Wayne Steen, District Membership Chair announced a special District 6000 Membership Event on April 6, 2017 at the Best Western Steeplegate in Davenport beginning at 6 pm. The event is organized to be"All Things Improvement, Engagement and Fun for potential Rotarians!!
Program: Jeff Kauffman provided an informative program on the Iowa Caucuses. Jeff wants us to know how great the caucuses are, how complicated they are and how they are not funded by the state . Probably about a $2 million dollar funds raised effort, some from the Republican Party of Iowa and some from the Democratic. Run by volunteers with a core group of 5 young people who coordinated 1700 precincts. A significant amount of time is spent "begging for money" in order to support the caucuses in our state.
A Republican Caucus is different from a Democratic one. The Republicans go in, sit down,listen to some speakers about the candidates and vote. Democrats move around the room and use a complex formula to count their votes.
Jeff thinks that Iowa is the best state to hold the caucuses because "if anyone can be President" Iowa represents that. It is not about 1 party, we have low advertising prices, you can go to all 99 counties easily and we have the system figured out. Other potential states would be Colorado and Arizona and Jeff's favorite would be Arizona because of the representation potential of diversity.