As the "new guy" on the DEC it occurs to me that month in and month out basically the same audience is in attendance at our meetings. The occassional candidate wanders in to promote his/her platform and we have an occassional speaker from "elsewhere" regale us in what's new in their neck of the woods. I think it would be a good idea to take our DEC monthly meetings on-the-road. A visit to Dunnellon one month, Salt Springs another, Macintosh another and Weirsdale and The Villages another. I think that the road trips would generate their own publicity and would naturally draw local democrats from their porches. Of course, all the candidates currently running would attend and introduce themselves. I just have to check on our by-laws to see if this is permissable. If it is: let's just do it.