Executive Director Toni Gilpin (left), Board Member Ted Loda and Peggy Slater of the New Trier Dems strategize about how to motivate volunteers for the 2010 election.

A dozen members of the DPOE board, joined by two organizers from the New Trier Democratic Party, gathered Saturday to discuss a major organizing effort planned for this fall's general election. The session, led by DPOE Secretary Brian Miller, included a discussion of where to target organizing efforts, how to re-engage volunteers and activists in 2010, and how to increase the DPOE's power to shape both the state and national Democratic Party.

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