Events

Campaign Finance, Fundraising & Reporting;
and How to Get on the Ballot

SPEAKERS:
Jennifer Brown: Former Charlottesville City Treasurer; Treasurer for Local, State & Federal Campaigns
Erin Monaghan: Attorney; Political and Communications Staff for Delegate David J. Toscano
Jim Nix: Charlottesville Electoral Board; Regional Organizer, Obama for America 2008 & 2012

more info

Saturday, June 23 | 10am – 12pm
Virginia Humanities Conference Center | 145 Ednam Drive, Charlottesville

WHERE:
Charlottesville Campaign Office
112 W Main Street
Suites 9 and 10
Charlottesville, VA 22902

DESCRIPTION:
Join us for a special Volunteer Summit on Wednesday, June 27th in our new Charlottesville office. This event will be a great opportunity to get involved with our campaign, learn more about the grassroots efforts to elect Democrats across Virginia, and to meet other activists in your community. Stop by our office on the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville inside York Place on June 27th from 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM and help us keep Virginia Blue in November!

TO APPLY Please send a resume with the email subject ‘2018 Fellowship Application’ to delia@lesliecockburnforcongress.com

Delia Goldin (delia@lesliecockburnforcongress.com), field organizer for the Cockburn campaign, would love to hear from you. The Cockburn campaign is setting up camp soon in the Ix Art Park area, around the corner from Brazo’s Tacos.

Time for all of us to get working! You are encouraged to get in touch with your precinct captain (listed below) to get this ball rolling! We are organizing events in each precinct — please let them know if you’d like to attend or help organize. A representative from one or both campaigns (Leslie and Tim Kaine’s) will be present at each event.

Alumni: Erica Goldfarb: ericag1223@gmail.com
Buford: Gail McIntosh: gbmcintosh@gmail.com
Carver: Sena Magill: senamagill@gmail.com | Sarah Peaslee: peasleesarah@yahoo.com
Clark: Mieke Zylstra: miekezylstra@gmail.com
Key Recreation: John McLaren: jem18_99@yahoo.com | Eberhard Jehle: evkjehle@yahoo.com
Johnson: Rich Fravel: Richard.flavel@gmail.com | Kurt Schlegel: ihavebestdogever@hotmail.com
Tonsler: Kem Spalding: kemmw@aol.com | Mark Day: marktday@gmail.com
Venable: Corey Runkle: cnr3cg@virginia.edu | Isaac Weintz: ibw5jc@virginia.edu
Walker: Mark Harris: mharris@cstone.net | Brian Pinkston: Brian_pinkston@yahoo.com

Please go by and meet Ian McNally in York Place on the Downtown Mall (enter at Grit Cafe and Marco and Luca’s) or email him to volunteer (Ian.mcnally@virginiavictory.org)

Mel Pruett (mel.pruett@virginiavictory.org), our local Kaine field organizer, would love to meet you! Email her, or drop by at the office in York Place for a phone bank or canvass:

Phonebanks: Tues and Thurs: 5-8
Canvasses: Sat: 9, 12, 3, 5; Sunday: 12, 3, 5.

Pipelines:

(The group also agreed to send a letter to Governor Northam, stating our opposition to the development of natural gas pipelines.)
The Charlottesville Democratic Committee believes in the development of clean energy and the protection of the environment. Therefore, we oppose the current and future building of natural gas pipelines in Virginia and ask our elected officials to do the same. Additionally, we oppose the proposed construction of the compressor station in Buckingham County. Pipeline construction and operation will have irreversible impacts on local landscapes and communities. Their completion will potentially hinder the necessary scaling-up of clean energy alternatives, such as wind and solar, in Virginia, adding unnecessarily to climate change and delaying the economic benefits of that transition. In addition, pipelines have significant potential to contaminate drinking water and may otherwise negatively affect public health, with low income residents and people of color likely to be disproportionately affected. Therefore, we believe that the use of eminent domain is inappropriate in this instance.

Health Insurance:

The Charlottesville Democratic Committee believes that access to affordable, high quality health care is a fundamental human right, and calls on all candidates and elected officials to make this a priority. We celebrate the recent Medicaid expansion in the Commonwealth of Virginia and strongly support expansion efforts across the United States. Still, Charlottesville has the highest individual-market health insurance costs in the nation, a result of extraordinary efforts by some federal and state legislators to sabotage, rather than reform and strengthen, the Affordable Care Act. We must work to improve health care outcomes while reducing out-of-pocket expenses, lowering drug costs, and reducing insurance premiums.