Comrade,

Last weekend, our DSA chapter voted overwhelmingly to endorse Ed Lazere for DC Council At-Large. Ed is a community leader, policy expert, and a transformative candidate running on a left platform that includes strengthening and expanding rent control, ensuring that all teachers earn a fair wage, and defunding MPD. This is our chapter’s second DC Council endorsement this cycle, after helping Janeese Lewis George win her primary election for the Council’s Ward 4 seat.  

Can you take action to support Ed’s campaign today? By electing Ed, we can ensure that Janeese will have one more ally on the Council in the political battles to come.

Here’s how you can help Ed win:

➡️ Volunteer with the chapter’s 2020 D.C. Council Elections Working Group
➡️ Download and sign the petition to get Ed on the Ballot
➡️ Contribute to Ed’s campaign (and D.C. will multiply your donation by 5x)

Ed is using the new DC Fair Elections public financing program, which means the city will match all donations five times over from DC residents. For instance, if an individual donated the maximum of $100, the DC Fair Elections program will provide another $500 to the campaign, for a total donation of $600. Non-D.C. residents can donate, but those donations will not be matched. The program stipulates that candidates cannot accept any corporate donations.  

Our chapter endorsed Ed Lazere not just due to his campaign’s policy positions, but also because of Ed’s lifelong commitment to social, economic, and racial justice. As the former head of the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, Ed worked closely with labor unions and allied organizations to win hard fought victories like increasing the minimum wage, winning paid sick days, and enacting and protecting paid family leave. Ed is one of the foremost experts on the DC budget and has been a consistent voice for taxing the rich, ending tax break giveaways for developers, and investing in healthcare, education, and affordable housing.

With your help, we can send not one but two democratic socialists to the DC Council in November. Sign up today to volunteer with DSA’s electoral working group, download a nominating petition for Ed, or donate to Ed’s campaign.

Please respond directly to this email with any questions about how to get involved in Metro DC DSA’s electoral work, or just about DSA in general.

In solidarity,

Metro DC DSA 2020 Council Elections Working Group

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