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Events
Thanks to the Signature Verifying Team!!
The nine-member team checked 1000+ signatures in five hours of meetings over two weekends, ensuring that all of our primary candidates (House of Delegates District and City Council) qualified to be on the ballot under State and DPVA requirements. This work is part of the machinery that keeps our democracy going!Thanks to Nancy Damon, Alev Erisir, Judy Harmon, Mary Ann Harris, Suzanne Michels, Erin Monaghan, Elayne Phillips, Barbara Shenefield, and (Albemarle County Dem and also a member of the House District 54 nominating committee) Teresa Willis.
Meet the June Candidates (6/20 Primaries)
Here’s what we knew about the candidates in the 2023 Charlottesville primary election races:
State Senate District 11
- Sen. Creigh Deeds (senatordeeds.com) — overview info
- Delegate Sally Hudson (sallyforvirginia.com) — overview info pending from candidate
House of Delegates District 54
- Dave Norris (votefordave.org) — overview info
- Bellamy Brown (bellamybrownfordelegate.com) — partial overview info
- Katrina Callsen (katrinacallsen.com) — overview info
[David Brown left the race on Feb. 22, Dashad Cooper left on March 14 to enter City Council race]
Charlottesville City Council (3 seats)
- Natalie Oschrin (www.nat4cville.com) — overview info
- Bob Fenwick — overview info pending from candidate
- Michael Payne (michaelpayneforcville@gmail.com) — overview info
- Lloyd Snook (lloydsnookforcouncil.com) — overview info pending from candidate
- Dashad Cooper (www.dashadcooper.com) — overview info
In addition to what’s on the web and in our social media, we’re giving each candidate some space near the bottom of each newsletter to communicate with you.
Note: as a matter of policy, the Cville Dems don’t take sides in primaries, but we’ll continue to share information about these races through June in an even-handed way.
Candidate Forum + (maybe) a Zoning Forum
The Cville Dems will definitely be sponsoring one or more candidate forums, probably in coordination with the Albemarle Dems; we’ll announce details as soon as they’re worked out.We’re also wondering if people (you!?) would find it helpful for us to sponsor an informational forum about the upcoming Draft Zoning Plan (Module 1 of 3 available here) that City Council will be voting on in June. The party hasn’t taken a position, but it’s an important issue and we’re wondering if a panel representing a wide variety of stakeholders would be valuable in sharing the many perspectives held within the community.
So:
- Would you like to see some kind of panel/forum on Zoning?
- If so, what groups/people would you be most interested in hearing from?
- Any other thoughts about this that you’d like to share with us?
Please send your thoughts to cvilledemschair@gmail.com
Feb 27th Cville Dems Executive Committee Meeting (Zoom only)
Executive Committee Meeting: Monday 2/27 6:30pm via Zoom
This will be a Zoom-only meeting (we’ll email the link a day or two beforehand). As always, everyone’s input and ideas are very much welcome (needed!). Our main agenda items:- discuss plans for a candidate forum for the primaries
- hear update on plans for our big annual fundraising event in June
- solicit ideas for community outreach activities/events
- meet the leadership team of the Charlottesville Area Young Democrats (CAYD)
- consider whether to host an informational forum on the new (Draft) zoning map
- hear from local activist Kate Vasiloff about the difficult issue of medical aid in dying (and legislative actions to consider)
