BROWARD DEMOCRATIC AREA 9 LEADER RON MILLS ANNOUNCES REELECTION CAMPAIGN

Fort Lauderdale – Ron Mills, Broward Democrats Area 9 leader serving Fort Lauderdale and Dania Beach, announced his campaign for reelection to the post.  The election, to be held February 17, 2009, is open to precinct committeepersons from Fort Lauderdale, Dania Beach and parts of unincorporated Broward County.   Mills was elected in 2007 for a two-year term.  Since then, he has nearly doubled precinct representation; held six all-day voter registration drives and five all-day training sessions; brought in Florida Democratic Party experts to train committee people on using the Party's Voter Access Network (VAN); and facilitated coordination among district leaders and the Obama-Biden campaign's regional organizers.   During the past election cycle Mills held numerous weekly phone banking sessions on behalf of local candidates Rep. Ron Klein (FL-22), Linda Bird, Chris Chiari and Scott Israel.  He also held weekly campaign coordination meetings with key staff of those campaigns prior to the election.  Mills is the only Area Leader to establish a website for communications and training  http://Area-Nine.org .   If reelected, Mills plans to focus on building the Democratic Party in Broward, as well as zero in on electing Democrats at all levels in 2010, especially Governor and US Senator.  He will continue registering Democrats in Area 9; fill all remaining precinct committee slots, with the help of district and precinct leaders; facilitate better tools for district and precinct leaders; hold online town hall meetings; improve canvassing and phone banking methods; aggressively focus on Vote By Mail drives; and help local Democratic clubs grow their memberships.   A Fort Lauderdale resident, Mills is a national and local blogger, writing for Http://BroardForChange.com  and http://ChangeInTallahassee.com .  He is a longtime Democratic activist and is a members of the Democratic Executive Committee (DEC) from precinct 114R.  He's a member of the National Stonewall Democrats and Florida GLBT Democratic Caucus; past vice president of the Dolphin Democrats; and has been a delegate to the last three Florida Democratic Conventions.  He is co-founder of Progressive Democrats of America and Broward founder of Democracy for America. Mills' campaign work includes Gore/Lieberman 2000; Janet Reno for Governor Broward Steering Campaign 2001-2002; McBride for Governor coordinated campaign 2002; Dean Trantalis for Fort Lauderdale Commissioner 2003; Howard Dean for President Broward Chair and State Co-Chair 2003-2004; Kerry/Edwards GLBT GOTV campaign 2004; Barry Sacharow for State Legislature 2006; Ken Keechl for Broward County Commission 2006; and Jim Davis for Governor Steering Committee 2005-2006.   Ron Mills 954-394-4980