Cville Dems

• State Senate District 11 — Sen. Creigh Deeds (senatordeeds.com), Delegate Sally Hudson (sally4virginia.com)
• House of Delegates District 54 (Sally’s current seat) — David Brown (dbrowndc@gmail.com), Katrina Callsen (katrina@katrinacallsen.com), Dashad Cooper (cooperfordelegate@gmail.com) have filed their initial paperwork. Bellamy Brown is in the process of filing.

At our January Full Committee meeting we welcomed Laura Shea from Clark Precinct as a member of the Full Committee and also got to meet the UVA Dems’ new President Vincent Kloes (kloes@virginia.edu); we’re looking forward to working with both of them!

• This month Anne Hemenway announced her resignation from the Charlottesville Electoral Board. Anne has served with great distinction for eight years, tirelessly working with her Democratic and Republican colleagues alike to keep our electoral system working efficiently and fairly for all. We owe Anne a huge vote of thanks for this dedicated service. Jim Nix, who has finished his own 3-year term, will serve out the last year of Anne’s term, after which we’ll need to nominate a new Democratic member to serve on the Board.
• Dashad Cooper announced his resignation as our Co-Chair in order to pursue elected office in the House of Delegates. We thank Dashad for his excellent service keeping things running smoothly, including handling most of the diplomatic outreach work needed to expand our party.

The proposal to replace polling places Alumni Hall and Tonsler with new polling places Charlottesville High School and Jackson-Via, and to redraw the lines of all current precincts in the City of Charlottesville, was presented to City Council on January 17th.

Jim Nix and Registrar Taylor Yowell explained at our November meeting that these changes were motivated by issues like population shifts and problems with location, building size, and parking.

The proposal will move through a discussion and public comment process before Council votes on it.

Now that DPVA has suspended its voter protection work, that work falls to us locals! Kristin Clarens, Jeremy Jones, and Bekah Saxon are spearheading this very important work; if you’d like more information, or might want to volunteer to help with voter protection, please contact: bekah saxon at gmail.com

The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center (JSAAHC) continues to be harassed by Confederate-sympathizing plaintiffs suing it to try to further delay the Swords into Plowshares repurposing of the Lee statue into inclusive art (an already City Council-approved project).

• 9:00am for a rally in front of the courthouse, for the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, and for Dr. Andrea Douglas.
• 9:30am for the beginning of the actual court proceeding(stay and show your support by attending if you can!)