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"Our challenge is to mobilize a new coalition of conscience to restore the Voting Rights Act, strengthen voting rights and broaden voter access in the legislatures of the 50 states."

 

Martin Luther King III

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NEWS

Trump/Pence COVID Spreading Train Makes a Stop in Wilmington

Vice President Mike Pence arrived in Wilmington Tuesday in one of a series of events by Pence and President Donald Trump that seemed designed to spread the deadly COVID-19 virus to as many of their supporters as possible. Pence spoke to a standing-room-only crowd of several hundred people gathered at the Wilmington International Airport on Tuesday evening, one of his two stops in North Carolina that day. He was introduced by Republican Thom Tillis, who the polls show is trailing Democratic challenger Cal Cunningham in the race for Tillis' U.S. Senate seat.

As is typical for Trump and Pence flurry of last-minute rallies, the audience was packed together with few members of the crowd wearing masks. The event came within two weeks of at least five people in Vice President Mike Pence's orbit testing positive for coronavirus,  including chief of staff Marc Short, close aide Zach Bauer and outside adviser Marty Obst, according to CNN. The appearance clearly violates guidelines set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, even though Pence is supposed to be the head of the Trump administration Coronavirus task force. Click here for a WWAY story on Pence's visit.

Justice Reuben Young Seeks to Retain Seat on 

(From keepjudgeyoung.com) Judge Reuben F. Young was appointed by Gov. Roy Cooper to the North Carolina Court of Appeals on April 15, 2019. Previously, Judge Young served as Interim Chief Deputy Secretary of Adult Corrections and Juvenile Justice. From 2009 to 2011, Judge Young served as Secretary of the former Department of Crime Control and Public Safety. He was the first Secretary of the newly consolidated Department of Public Safety in 2012. Later, Judge Young was appointed Special Superior Court Judge for the 10th Judicial District of North Carolina. Judge Young served as a jurist for five years until he returned to the Department of Public Safety as its Interim Chief Secretary.

Judge Young began his legal career in Austin, Texas where he worked as a prosecutor, assistant attorney general, and a private practitioner. When he returned to North Carolina in 1995, Judge Young worked for the state Department of Justice, specifically the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety for six years. In 2001, Judge Young joined the Governor’s office as Deputy Legal Counsel, and then Chief Legal Counsel. He is a graduate of Howard University in Washington, D.C. and North Carolina Central University School of Law in Durham.

GOTV Lit Drop and Phone Bank This Week



 

Calling all Democrats! We need you more than ever this week to phone bank and distribute literature to doors of New Hanover voters who haven't yet voted. After nearly abandoning Absentee-By-Mail voting this year, Republicans are turning out to vote in person  in greater numbers than Democrats.  This week marks our last chance to turn out Democrats. Don't take the chance of waking up on November 4th wishing you had done more.

 

You can pick up literature this week at the NHCDP Office from 9 to 5, and on Saturday and Sunday from 9 to 6. Lit Drop organizer Shannon Schaible reports that we have now reached 21,363 doors and poll greeters are reporting voters showing up to early vote with our packets in their hands, so we are clearly making a difference.

 

Please be aware that the lit drops being promoted on Mobilize are organized by the Coordinated Campaign. We are working with them to maximize coverage and avoid duplication of effort.

 

 

Join the New Hanover GOTV Phone Bank This Week - It's Now or Never

The Coordinated Campaign has created a high Dem supporter, low turnout phone bank for NHCDP volunteers for the remainder of Early Voting, which ends Saturday.

We want you to keep your GOTV commitments to Coordinated Campaign phone banks, but can you spare an hour a day this week to call New Hanover voters who have not yet made it to the polls?  We have a chance this year to turn New Hanover blue. Let’s do it!

Here's the link: [link removed]  Votebuilder users can use this code:  5A90B4L-284712.

If you have questions, you can reach Susanne Werner at [email protected].

NHCDP Office Now Has Office Hours 6 Days







 

The New Hanover County Democratic Party office still has a lot of signs for the Biden Harris signs as well as down ballot candidates.  The office is at 5041 New Centre Drive, Wilmington will now be staffed on Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday from noon to 6:00 p.m. We will use the office primarily for pick up and drop off of yard signs, blue ballots and similar items. We do not anticipate scheduling meetings there. Our office phone number is (910) 805-5703.  Please wear a mask and observe social distancing. One visitor at a time in the office. Others, please wait in the hall.

 

We still have about 20 4 x 8 foot Biden/Harris signs, and would appreciate your help finding them good homes. Put one on your porch, your garage door, or hang it from your balcony - it only needs to last one more week!


 

 

RECURRING EVENTS



 

Coordinated Campaign Virtual Phone Banks for Joe Biden Now Through November 3

 

When: Every day except Monday.

Where: Join Phone Bank and call from home 

 

Team Joe supporters from Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, and Pender counties are invited for a virtual phone bank to make phone calls to voters. Training will be provided.

 

 





ONE-TIME EVENTS

 

Election Material Pick-up -- November 2

 


When: Monday, November 2, 3:00 to 6 p.m.

Where: NHCDP Office Parking lot, 3051 New Centre Drive, Wilmington

 

Democratic Party campaign supporters can drive in to pick up Blue Ballots and Yard Signs.

 


Election Night Zoom Watch Party -- November 3

 

When: Tuesday, November 3, 8:00 p.m.

Where: Zoom

 

Jeff Cohen has agreed to help make this a fun event! Click here to register for the event.

 

 

 

Best,

Richard Poole, Chair

News Content by James Cummings

 

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Mailing Address: 

NHCDP

PO Box 3036

Wilmington, NC 28406 

 

Office Address:

5041 New Centre Drive

Wilmington, NC 28403

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