Events

Attend the 2018 Campaign Training Program of the Candidate Development Academy.
A free program sponsored by the Democratic Road Forward PAC

May 12 – July 21, 2018

Learn more at the Orientation Session Sunday, April 15, 2:00 p.m.
Jefferson-Madison Library Central Branch | 201 East Market Street, Charlottesville 22902

more info about guest speakers

This is a ten-month plan to educate, organize and advocate in order to build momentum in support of a Virginia constitutional amendment to reform redistricting.

This campaign will kick off on March 4, 2018 for an afternoon of action in downtown Richmond, complete with comprehensive training sessions, dynamic rally speakers, networking and entertainment.
more info

Help keep our party going strong by paying your annual 2018 committee dues!
Annual dues are $15 and help fund our activities for the year, support local candidates, and pay our bills.
Dues can be paid online by credit card just click on “contribute now” and select $15 or by mailing a check to the Charlottesville Democratic Committee at PO BOX 916, Charlottesville, VA 22902.

Thank you for your support!”

These Democratic candidates have expressed their interest in running for the 5th Congressional District seat in 2018.

Roger Dean (RD) Huffstetler: RDforVA.com

Andrew Sneathern: http://sneathernforcongress.com/

Leslie Cockburn: lesliecockburnforcongress.com

Please consider contacting your precinct captains (located on our website) or by emailing the co-chairs, if you would like to volunteer with us to do some preliminary neighborhood canvassing before the campaigns get going.

Volunteering are the actions our democracy is built upon.

In a time when anyone, anywhere, can put anything online whether it is true or false (or somewhere in between), and those who speak for the White House deal in “alternative facts,” how do we figure out what/who to trust as a source of information?

On February 18, 2017, at the monthly Democratic breakfast, Siva Vaidhyanathan, the Robertson Professor in UVA’s Department of Media Studies, moderated a panel with deep and wide experience in media, news and journalism:
Wendy Zomparelli, former publisher of the Roanoke Times
Brian Wheeler, executive director of Charlottesville Tomorrow
Bo Sacks, president/publisher of Precision Media Group
Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor of Slate

Our thanks to the panelists for their permission to video-record their talk and share it.