Delta Grassroots Caucus Events

Credit Michael Hibblen/ KUAR News, Arkansas Public Radio; Former President Bill Clinton speaking to the Delta Grassroots Caucus on May 2, 2013, at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, Little Rock

U. S. Senator John Boozman, Arkansas, at a Delta Grassroots Caucus meeting at the US Capitol

Brad Cole, Executive Director of the Municipal League of Illinois; previously a senior aide to former Republican US Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois, earlier Mayor of Carbondale, Illinois, veteran Delta regional advocate, speaking at the Delta regional conference in West Memphis, Arkansas on April 26, 2019.

President Bill Clinton makes a comment to Delta Caucus Director Lee Powell at a meeting in Blytheville, Arkansas (in the northeast Arkansas Delta) on Nov. 2, 2014

The Delta Caucus would like to pay tribute to the late, great U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi, a powerful force in the US Senate for decades and a champion for the Delta. Sen. Cochran passed away on May 30, 2019. He spoke to the Delta Caucus on many occasions over the years (he is pictured above speaking to a Caucus event on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC) and his thoughtful, courteous and bipartisan leadership will be sorely missed.

Marcie Lawson, Executive Director, Sikeston, Missouri Regional Chamber and Area Economic Development Corporation, speaking at the Delta regional conference in West Memphis, Arkansas on April 26, 2019.

Alan Gumbel, Greater Memphis Alliance for a Competitive Workforce, Memphis, Tennessee, speaking at the Delta regional conference in West Memphis, Arkansas on April 26, 2019.

Mayor Shirley Washington of Pine Bluff, AR, speaking to the Delta Caucus at the Arkansas Capitol Rotunda in 2017.

New Dates for Delta Caucus Conference Set for Oct. 20-21, 2022

Posted on March 23, 2022 at 10:44 AM

Delta Regional Conference Moved to Oct. 20-21, 2022 in Little Rock

We have postponed the Delta Caucus conference to Oct. 20-21, 2022 at the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Arkansas.

We have reserved the Great Hall of the Clinton Library for Oct. 21, 2022 Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

We have requested the Choctaw Commons area of the Clinton School of Public Service for Thursday evening, Oct. 21, 2022 from about 5 p.m. to 6:45 p.m., although they cannot confirm that location this far in advance. We will keep you posted.

Due to some illnesses and other complications, the conference was moved from the late spring on June 2-3 to the fall on Oct. 20-21.

We will address community and economic development issues in the Greater Delta Region from southern Illinois and Missouri to New Orleans and eastward to the Alabama Black Belt.

Among the key issues we will include job creation, infrastructure, health care, hunger and nutrition, Delta Heritage tourism, civil rights and diversity, and related subjects.

We support the Delta Regional Authority and as always advocate for a much larger budget. Currently Congress is considering a major increase in the DRA budget to the $150 or greater level, which would be a historic expansion.

REGISTRATION

You register by paying the registration fees, which are $100 each until Oct. 5 and then late registration after that goes up to $130.

To pay the $100 registration fees, you can go to the website at www.mdgc.us and go to the PayPal link that says “Donate.”

NOTE: This is not a link so you will need to type in the “mdgc.us” to get to the website.

If you wish to pay by check, please make out the check to “Delta Caucus” and mail to:

Delta Caucus 5030 Purslane Place Waldorf, MD 20601

We are working on getting a group hotel discount and will forward that information as soon as we have received it. Thanks–Delta Caucus; Phone is (202) 360-6347; email address is leepowell@delta.comcastbiz.net