El Paso, TX/January 2010/BEPD UPDATE -- The BEPD will host the 27th Annual Political Awareness & Awards Banquet on Saturday, February 20, 2010.
JAMES E. CLYBURN, the Democratic Majority Whip of the United States House of Representatives, the ranking African American in the House and third ranking Democrat behind Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, will address members and guests of the Black El Paso Democrats, 27th Annual Political Awareness and Awards Banquet, Saturday, February 20, 2007, at the Windham El Paso Airport Hotel.
Congressman CLYBURN from South Carolina is credited with galvanizing the House Democrats in passing their version of the Health Care Reform Bill. On January 29, 2010, he was inducted into the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame in Atlanta, Georgia. Along with El Paso's Congressman Silvestre Reyes, Chair of the House Select Committee on Intelligence in attendance, and honoring various notables in the field of business, labor, education, justice, health, community activism and politics, the evening should be informative, provocative and enlightening.
Social hour begins at 6:00 PM and the Dinner/Program begins at 7:00 PM.
Tickets are $50 each or $500 for a table of 10. R.E.L. Washington Century Club Membership is $100.00.
Contact Holi Holifield, at (915) 203-5302, holi@aol.com, Dorothy “Sissy” Byrd, (915) 694-1655, sissyb18@hotmail.com, Twymeni Purchase, 708-250-1202, twinkiep@ameritech.net , Ruth Y. Williams, (915) 355-9483, RuthYWms@yahoo.com, Harold Howell, (915) 474-1247, howell17@gmail.com, or Donald L. Williams, Chair, Black El Paso Democrats at (915) 433-5455, 564-5559 for tickets, tables and Century Club Listings.