Please join us for drinks, dinner and discussion at the highly praised French restaurant Lavandou, 3321 Connecticut Avenue, NW (Cleveland Park Metro stop).  We are also having similar events in Napa Valley, CA and Knoxville, TN.

All Democrats and all democrats are welcome to join us.  In Washington we'll begin with a selection of French wines starting at 5:00 a lively discussion about Internet-enabled political action. After a champagne toast, dinner will start around 6:30.  The dinner costs just $40 per person, which includes one button and one bumper sticker with our smash hit slogan "Re-Defeat Bush."  If you can only attend the reception but cannot stay for dinner the cost is just $15, also including your complimentary button and bumper sticker.  Of course, there will be more buttons and bumperstickers on hand to purchase as well as lawn signs.

Only a few space remain, so please purchase your dinner tickets by midnight Friday.  You may choose an appetizer, entree and dessert from among the choices listed to your right.  If you want to bring a friend who doesn't know about us and who did not receive an invitation that's fine by us.

Please e-mail Ronda Brown at ronda@democrats.com if you have any questions.  

Here is an agenda for some of the things we'll talk about.  This is a thrilling moment for Internet organizing since the Dean campaign generated $3 million in just a week and suddenly all Democratic campaign professionals are taking it very seriously.  This hints at how crucial the Internet could be to our efforts to recapture of the White House and the Congress.

1. Virtual phone banks: A tremendous next step for Internet-enabled organizing would be the creation of a site at which activists can access lists and make telephone calls to households that would be likely to be Democratic but who are not registered to vote.  Picture a group of activists getting together with laptops and cell phones at a wireless hotspot and using the database provided on a non-public Web site to make calls from 7 to 9 and then have a party from 9 to 11.  

2. Voter registration door-to-door: Should we organize local volunteers to undertake voter registration expeditions to Pennsylvania and Virginia starting this fall so that DC-area activists can help carry these crucial swing states? 

3. Who would volunteer to help staff a merchandise operation down on the National Mall?

4. How Democrats.com will grow from 100,000 to 1,000,000 newsletter subscribers in this election cycle?

5. Is there enough interest in having a regular monthly meeting/work party/party?  Do we want to start using MeetUp.com?

6. How can we help activists around the country participate in the presidential nominating process and assist their campaigns to become delegates to the 2004 Convention?