The State Central Committee guides the Democratic Party of Oregon (DPO), elects the DPO Executive Committee, and makes many major decisions. Each county sends a number of delegates based on county population, and gender balancing.
i'll let LoErna cover the actual meeting more properly, since i just happened to be in Portland on personal business and went to the SCC meeting to observe. but i do want to say this: we have a lot of passionate Dems in this state. people are not participating in this party because their parents were Dems and so they are; they are Dems because the believe in what this great party -- the party of Jefferson and now, by default, the true party of Lincoln -- stands for. a lot of the stuff that happens with so-called divisiveness is simply the inability of diverse Demos to not give a damn. we do, and we just so often find it impossible to let go. to not strive for our beliefs.