Cville Dems

The Charlottesville Democratic Committee

GOTV - get out the vote

“Thursdays at Ix Park” Will Begin in June

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We’ll remind you again in the coming weeks, but the volunteer activities at Ix Park will resume this year after the June 17 primary, once we know which candidates will be on the final election ballot for Charlottesville voters. The time will be 5-7pm for Ix Park activities.

This year we’ll also be helping Lily Franklin in the Blacksburg (VA-41) House of Delegates District with cards, calls, and texts. She lost by under 200 votes in her last try, and we want to bring her over the finish line with a seat in Richmond.

Help Jack Trammell Get Elected by Phone Banking!

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Flyer for candidate Jack Trammell VA Senate D10 showing his picture and a quote from Susan Sweker "...dedicated advocate for better schools, stronger support for educators, improved infrastructure, and expanded access to affordable healthcare"

A special election is coming this Tuesday, January 7, and there’s an important phone banking opportunity. Jack Trammell would like volunteers to help him win the VA Senate District 10 seat John McGuire vacated when he unfortunately won the 5th District race. Trammel is the Democratic nominee in the special election for the seat (his nomination received strong support from the SD-10 Democratic Nominating Committee).

Note that Senate District 10 covers a lot of our Fifth Congressional District. It borders Charlottesville and Albemarle County, and consists of part or all of the following counties: Amelia, Appomattox, Buckingham, Cumberland, Fluvanna, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico (one tiny part), Louisa (Jack’s Home County), Powhatan, and Prince Edward. It includes the more Democratic and populated areas of Ashland, Lake Monticello, and Farmville.

The biggest way to help is to make calls and reach as many voters as possible (some sessions start today!):

GOTV for Jack Trammel

Thurs. 1/2 (Today!) and Friday 1/3

Saturday 1/4 – Tuesday 1/7

More ways you can support Jack’s candidacy

Questions? Please contact:
Chris Burton
Campaign Manager
Trammell for Senate VA-10
434-987-5983

How You Can Help with Our Final Pre-Election Push

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Mobilize logo for Coordination Campaign Harris-Walz-Kaine 2024 Final Stretch Canvasses. Candidate names are in white letters with a Bigger VA2024 at bottom.Final Canvasses 4 days leading up to Tuesday Tuesday (including some special Sunday attractions)

  • Saturday 11/2: 9am–12pm, 12–3pm, 3–6pm, 6–9pm — sign up sign up here
  • Sunday 11/3: 9am–12pm (11am donuts for this and next shift courtesy of Network Nova), 12–3pm, 3–6pm (launched by Gloria Witt and Katrina Callsen!), 6–9pm — sign up here
  • Monday 11/4: 9am–12pm, 12–3pm, 3–6pm, 6–9pm — sign up here
  • Tuesday 11/5: 7–9am, 9am–12pm, 12–3pm, 3–5pm, 5–7pm — sign up here

Phone Banking

Last chance to cure ballots in swing states and GOTV!

Text Banking

Last chance to cure ballots in swing states and GOTV!

Help Us Use YouTube Videos to Elect Democrats

Graphic with 3-step instructions about how to best use the Cville Dems YouTube Channel. Photos from several Gloria Witt videos appear at the bottom.Videos are one of the most powerful communications tools available. Viewers retain 95% of a message when they watch it in a video compared to 10% in text! And people are 52% more likely to share video content than any other type of content.

We need YOU to help us build up our YouTube subscriber count! We have 19 now, and we’d love to get to 50 by Election Day.

Please take a minute (that’s all) to go to the Cville Dems YouTube channel at https://youtube.com/@CvilleDemsVote and then follow the three steps in the graphic:

  1. Subscribe (and enable all notifications)
  2. Once subscribed, you can then (focusing on the Gloria Witt videos) Like, Comment, and most importantly Share the videos to your own social media channels by clicking on “Share” under a video, copying the video link, and pasting it into your own social media post on Facebook, Instagram, X/Twitter, etc. Feel free to add an appropriate caption.
  3. Please share the link to our YouTube channel with folks in your network and ask them to also subscribe to and share our videos.

If you take your minute above, and also ask your friends to join you, it will, as Gloria Witt would say, put the butterfly effect into action!

Other (Nice-Looking) Ways to Help

  • Get our new Cville Dems coffee mug
  • Get our NEW Cville Dems T-shirts and/or sweatshirts so you can wear them for canvassing (and around town too, to publicize us and by extension our candidates). We’re having an Election 2024 Special Sale this Saturday 11/02 from 12-2pm at 107 Christa Court in Cville — drive by to get a free Cville Dems mug with purchase of any 2 or more garments! We’ll accept cash, check, or credit card.

Photo of Cville Dems Tshirt/Sweatshirt for sale - has our 2 shades of blue logo of the Blue Ridge Mountains on the front with the words "Cville Dems"     Photo of Cville Dems coffee mug for sale - has our logo of the Blue Ridge Mountains on the front with the words "Cville Dems" in white capital letters

Have You Voted Yet? Early Voting Available Through November 2

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Poster for "Turn Out the Vote Thursdays". Under that title are the words "Phone bank, have a taco, write postcards to voters"There are only a few more days to vote early; why not cast your vote early too?

EARLY VOTING IS STILL AVAILABLE THROUGH THIS SATURDAY 11/2

 
CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE
CITY HALL ANNEX, 120 7th ST NE
(Next to the Ting Pavilion on the Downtown Mall)

  • Thursday: 8:30am-6:00pm
  • Friday: 8:30am-4:30pm
  • Saturday: 8:30am-5:00pm

For more information: https://www.charlottesville.gov/431/Early-Voting

Free Rides To Vote: 415-601-3076 (Kate)

If you miss early voting you can still cast a ballot at your designated voting location on Election Day 11/5. A Democratic sample ballot on blue paper will be available from the Cville Dems outside the polls on Election Day.

For more information: https://www.charlottesville.gov/431/Early-Voting

Not available to City of Charlottesville residents, but for the convenience of our many Albemarle County readers we’re providing the information below:

 

ALBEMARLE COUNTY
5th ST. EXTENDED, COUNTY OFFICE BUILDING
1600 5th St Extended (about 1 mile past Wegmans)

  • Thursday: 8:30am-7:30pm
  • Friday: 8:30am-5:00pm
  • Saturday: 8:30am-5:00pm

Free Rides To Vote: 415-601-3076 (Kate)

Full Committee Meeting (Monday, Oct. 28, 6:30pm)

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Six cartoonish (faceless) people sitting around a meeting table

  • Fry’s Spring Beach Club, 2512 Jefferson Park Ave.
  • Free cider & hot chocolate (you keep the mug!)
  • Preview our fall fashion line
  • Everyone’s welcome, bring a friend!

At the meeting we’ll be distributing free Cville Dems mugs. Why? We want to use fewer disposable products at our events— at the polls, during voter registration, “Turn Out the Vote Thursdays” at Ix, etc. Thanks for conserving (and getting Cville Dems more exposure!).

As for clothing… we also have a NEW Sweatshirt/T-shirt with a logo on front and nothing on the back. T-shirts are $10 and sweatshirts $20, bargains bordering on a steal. Get yours right away so you can be a walking billboard for us and Democratic candidates in the leadup to November 5! Thanks to Blue Ridge Graphics for giving us amazing pricing so we can offer them to you so inexpensively.

Photo of Cville Dems Tshirt/Sweatshirt for sale - has our 2 shades of blue logo of the Blue Ridge Mountains on the front with the words "Cville Dems"     Photo of Cville Dems coffee mug for sale - has our logo of the Blue Ridge Mountains on the front with the words "Cville Dems" in white capital letters

Gloria Witt Videos to View, Like, Comment On, and Share

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Photo of Gloria Witt being interviewed by Channel 29 about reproductive rights. She is wearing a burgundy-colored suit jacket and yellow shirt.Check out our videos on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@CvilleDemsVote

Many of the latest include statements from Gloria Witt, who’s running in the Fifth District to BEAT John McGuire.

View them, like them, comment on them, and of course share them with Dem-leaning friends in our district!

Here are some other ways to help Gloria get elected:

  • Communicate candid feedback about community issues and concerns.
  • Recommend community events and activities she should attend to inform future legislative actions.
  • Donate – Your contribution, no matter the amount, can make a difference in helping reach campaign goals.
  • Ask a friend or two to also donate.

For more ideas, visit Gloria’s How to Get Involved page.