Shahid Khan, member of the Framingham Democratic Committee, has been appointed by President Biden to the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts.
Shahid has been active in Democratic politics for nearly 3 decades and was instrumental in mobilizing and involving the South Asian-American community in the Biden for President campaign.
The 2023 Framingham Democratic caucus will be held on Sunday June 11th at the Framingham Public Library, Costin Room. The library is located at 49 Lexington Street close to City Hall.
The purpose of this caucus is to elect Framingham’s delegation to the 2023 Massachusetts Democratic State Convention.
Registration desk will open at 1:30pm, the caucus call-to-order will be at 2pm. Registration closes at 2:15pm.
Update Information follows:
The Executive Committee of the Framingham Democratic Committee has issued a press release following the resignation of Michael Hugo from the position of committee chair.
Framingham Democratic Committee Chair Mike Hugo resigned on March 2, 2023 after many calls for his resignation. At the February 26 FDC business meeting a motion to consider removal of Hugo following inflammatory remarks he made at the February 7th City Council meeting was voted down 11 to 16 with 1 abstention. Following discussion with Senate President Karen Spilka, Hugo has made the decision to resign.
In his press release he states:
“Recognizing my unfortunate misstatement at a recent City Council meeting, and upon discussing the issue with my wife, family, Senate President Karen Spilka, and various members of the Framingham Democratic Committee, I have decided that my resignation is necessary to eliminate any distraction from the important work of the local Democratic Committee, as well as the State Party. I thank the Committee members for their recent show of support in defeating a motion to even discuss my removal, thus this is of my own volition. However, I feel it is what is best for the Committee, my loved ones, my emotional and physical health, and our cause and those I serve in my work. While I am stepping down as Chair after over a decade of service as an officer, I plan to continue to do the work of the party. Even though I issued separate apologies to the City Council, The Framingham Democratic Committee, and the entire city within hours of the statement, I wish to reiterate that I am sorry for distracting from a major victory for freedom of choice, and for harm to the other-abled community at large.”
At the February 26, 2023 business meeting of the Framingham Democratic Committee two motions were brought to vote in relation to remarks made by the FDC Chair Mike Hugo during the Feb 7 City Council meeting.
The first motion was for the FDC membership to endorse the statement from the FDC Executive Committee repudiating the chair’s remarks. This motion passed with overwhelming support.
The second motion called for an agenda item to be included in the next (March) business meeting of the FDC for the members to consider removal of the chair and if so removed, to fill the vacancy by election. This motion did not pass by a vote of 11-yes, to 16-no with 1 abstention.