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2024 Election Calendar

Posted on May 25, 2024

A line art sketch of a stylized calendar (4x4 grid) with the first 6 days crossed offMark your calendar and vote for a healthy US Democracy!!

2024 Democratic Party of Virginia (DPVA) Calendar of Events

  • Early Voting for US Senate and Congressional Primary — May 6-June 15
  • U.S. Senate and Congressional Primary – June 18
  • DPVA Convention – June 22, 10am in Richmond
  • Democratic Party National Convention – Aug.19-23, in Chicago
  • General Election – Nov. 5

Filed Under: Elections, homepage

Volunteer Efforts to Win in November are Gearing Up!

Posted on May 24, 2024

3 Cville Dem volunteers registering 2 new voters at our tent June 2022As soon as we know who the Democratic 5th District candidate will be, Get Out the Vote Thursdays will resume on Thursday, June 27 at IX Park. We’ll then meet every Thursday to canvass, phone bank, text bank (new for us), and/or write postcards. We’ll be reaching out to specific potential voters we identify in the City of Cville and the 5th District, and also coordinating with the campaigns to help them reach their targeted individuals. Together we can reach out to thousands of registered voters and turn them into actual Democratic votes this November!

We hope you’ll join us!

In the meantime, if your fingers are itching to start writing postcards, there are two groups (unaffiliated with the Cville Dems) with earlier meetup times:

  • Mondays from 10-12 at the Dunlora Club House; for more information, contact Mary Farrell at 703-655-3867 or wmekmf118@gmail.com.
  • Donna Shaunessey has organized a Postcards and Pastry meeting Friday May 24, 1-3pm; for details contact shaunesey@hotmail.com.

Voter registration efforts are already going strong. If you’d like to participate, please contact Suzanne (suzemichels@gmail.com) if you know of a local event or location ripe for our voter registration and/or rights restoration efforts or if you’d like to join the voter registration team!

Filed Under: 5th District, Elections, GOTV - get out the vote, homepage, Outreach, Voter Registration

Josh Goes to the White House to Discuss Rural America!

Posted on May 24, 2024

Cville Dems co-chair Josh Throneburg wearing a suit and tie chats with other attendees at the White House rural summit called Investing In Rural America. Television screens and an American flag are behind them.[Cville Dems cochair Josh Throneburg shared this account with us.]

Six weeks ago I received an unexpected invitation to the White House for a ‘Rural Communities in Action’ event. The Biden Administration wanted to feature its historic investments in rural communities across the country as well as hear from people on the ground about the work they are doing.

After clearing two separate security stations, I made it ‘on Campus’, and headed to the event.

About 100 people were invited to attend from all across the U.S. The gentleman in front of me was a county manager in rural Nevada, a young woman from Puerto Rico who was going to college on an Agricultural Scholarship was in the front row, there was a mayor from a small town in Wisconsin, and many more.

The primary speakers at the event were Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack; Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow, who is heading up the new Farm Bill; and Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg.

Secretary Buttigieg talked at length about investments in rural America, especially infrastructure investments that benefit rural communities. Biden’s Infrastructure Bill provides for clean water, high-speed internet, new roads and bridges and much, much more. Secretary Buttigieg also noted how his office is working to remove the red tape that can make it difficult and tedious for rural entities to apply for government sponsored loans and grants.

Senator Stabenow focused her remarks on the Farm Bill. This is the third time she has led the charge to pass a farm bill and she talked both about the exciting investments that they are working on for this bill, but also about the incredible frustrations at how dysfunctional Washington is right now. She said that working on this bill has been much, much harder than before.

Finally, Secretary Vilsack masterfully painted the picture of rural decline over the last 50 years. He talked about how we have lost over 500,000 farming families in that time; how there are counties across the country that have been in persistent poverty (20%+ poverty for at least 30 years or more) and how a high majority of those counties are rural. But he not only described the problem, he inspired with the work of the Biden Administration to turn the tide. He noted how in recent years rural populations are finally beginning to grow again and how, during Biden’s first term, over 50 counties have been taken off the persistent poverty list. He described, in detail, the work that was being done to revive rural communities, and it was exhilarating.

I walked out of the White house that afternoon with lots of thoughts but one major takeaway — we have to give this Administration four more years to expand on the amazing work it is doing. I know a lot of rural residents are Republicans, and that Republicans claim to care about rural voters… but talk is cheap. It is Democratic policies around climate, infrastructure, jobs, agriculture, and much more that actually benefit rural communities. Let’s keep doing the work, and maybe do a bit better job of bragging about it along the way, so that rural voters can see the difference electing Democrats makes!

Filed Under: homepage, Legislation / Legislative Process, Out-of-area VA

Office Space Update

Posted on May 24, 2024

Stylized cartoon drawing of a small office buildingBecause we weren’t able to raise enough funds for an affordable local office, we’ll be sharing space with the joint Kaine-Biden office soon. Stay tuned for more on this development. We’ll be putting our funds toward student (college and high school) interns instead.

Filed Under: GOTV - get out the vote, homepage, Outreach

Dues are Due!

Posted on May 24, 2024

3 old coins in someone's open palmTreasurer Jason Vandever reminds us that 2024 dues are due and can be paid via Act Blue or by mailing a check payable to Cville Dems to PO Box 916, Charlottesville, VA 22902.

If you’re already set up on Act Blue for a monthly donation, that recurriing donation covers you and you don’t need to do a thing!

Filed Under: homepage, Internal Cville Dems

Next Dems’ Meeting is June 24, 6:30pm

Posted on May 11, 2024

Portrait photo of approx. 30 Cville Dem members seated around 6 rectangular tables in the JMRL Swanson Case room

Next Dems’ Meetings is June 24, 6:30pm

Filed Under: homepage, Internal Cville Dems

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