Cville Dems

The Charlottesville Democratic Committee

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Jan. 10, 2026 IMPORTANT Volunteer Appreciation and Biennial Reorganizational Meeting

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All Democratic voters are invited to can attend our important meeting in January (location details to come). The entire Volunteer Appreciation and Biennial Reorganization Meeting will be Saturday, Jan. 10 at Carver Rec Center. Here’s the program:

4:30pm — Doors open and Caucus Registration Begins
5:00pm — Pizza served. There will be some remarks from several VA-05 candidates, we think also from some US Senate candidates, and some Volunteer Appreciation remarks.
6:00pm — Caucus Registration closes
6:30pm — Caucus Meeting followed immediately by 1st Full Committee Meeting
7:30pm — End of program

Please come out and show your support and interest in Charlottesville Democrats!

Saturday Dec. 6, Cookies and Conversation with Katrina and Creigh

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A flyer for Cookies and Conversation with Del. Katrina Callsen and Senator Creigh Deeds on Dec. 6, 2025 from 10 to noon at the JMRL Central Library. Bake, Take and exchange cookies while talking Virginia politics. Also bring canned food, grains, cooking oil and hygiene products, baby formula, et cetera.Come chat with Sen. Creigh Deeds and Del. Katrina Callsen on Saturday, Dec. 6, for “Cookies and Conversation” from 10am to noon in the Swanson Room of the downtown Jefferson-Madison Regional Library. Bring your questions – and cookies for a holiday exchange (don’t forget an empty container!) – and to enjoy a relaxed conversation with your representatives! 

If you missed our food and toiletries drive last month, feel free to bring donations on Saturday; Katrina and Creigh will take anything collected to the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank.



“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.

Rep. John McGuire a No-Show at Town Hall Meeting

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A cardboard cutout of John McGuire at a odium onstage with a full auditorium of Democrats and other constituents wanting answers

Almost 1,000 people attended a town hall at Charlottesville High School’s MLK Auditorium on Saturday, April 26 to which 5th District Republican Congressman John McGuire had been repeatedly invited by Indivisible Charlottesville — but did not respond. The group propped up onstage a full-sized, cardboard cutout of McGuire at a podium.

Attendees then lined up at several microphones set up around the auditorium to ask questions they would have posed to the real McGuire on a wide range of topics including the economy and federal funding and job cuts. They also wrote questions on cards to be collated and delivered this week to McGuire’s office. We’ll see if he responds.

Also among the audience: other local, county, and state lawmakers. Thank you to Creigh Deeds, Katrina Callsen, Amy Laufer, Lloyd Snook, and Michael Payne for coming to listen to your constituents, and to Hashmi Ghazala for her inspiring words.

Note: Indivisible Charlottesville also shared a very amusing “bird-dogging” video of one of its members nabbing an unexpecting McGuire on the street in Charlottesville to personally invite him to attend!