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Jeff Jackson Holds Meet and Greet At Waterfront Park
You Can Vote Fellowship Applications Open through March 31
You Can Vote is looking for NC college students to participate in paid fellowships to encourage voter participation in North Carolina. You Can Vote works to educate, register and mobilize voters, and the group needs young people to work with teams of students across the state on nonpartisan projects that will help mobilize students to make their voice heard in local elections in 2021 and 2022.
The Summer Fellows program requires a commitment of 10 hours per week and access to a computer and WiFi as most activities will be virtual. The interactive program hopes to hold limited in-person events in June -- safety permitting. The Summer Fellows program orientation will begin the week of May 17th and is required. This program will last 7 weeks, ending July 2nd. Fellows will be paid $150/week.
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Latinx and immigrant residents of New Hanover County enrich our community culturally, economically, socially and spiritually. Two of our outstanding Democratic neighbors received accolades recently: Our Latinx Neighbors Need Support in Opposition to 'Show Me Your Papers' Bill
Ron Johnson, one of Donald Trump's most rabid supporters, has gone full-bore white supremacist in his latest public comments. Johnson, previously tried to blame the January 6 U.S. Capital insurrection on provocateurs posing as Trump supporters. That didn't work after Republican FBI Director and Trump Appointee Chris Wray said he had seen "no evidence of that." See Politico article here.
In a disturbing interview on talk radio last week, Johnson said he didn’t feel threatened by rioters violently storming the Capitol. Instead, he said, he might have been scared if the participants were Black Lives Matter or Antifa supporters — a comment with strong racial overtones according to Politico. Johnson (R-Wis.) said in an interview on conservative radio host Joe Pag’s show Thursday that he was not concerned about the thousands of insurrectionist rioters who invaded the Capitol and attacked Capitol Police and DC Police because they "love this country and respect law enforcement."
He followed with this comment: "Now, had the tables been turned — Joe, this could get me in trouble — had the tables been turned, and President Trump won the election and those were tens of thousands of Black Lives Matter and Antifa protesters, I might have been a little concerned," Johnson said.
Ron Johnson is just one Republican, but his comments seem representative of a political party that embraces its hard-right, racially bigoted fringe more closely every day. Republicans are the party that went along as Donald Trump ripped children away from their asylum seeking parents, pushed new voter restriction bills in 43 states, and refused to cast a single vote in either house of Congress for Joe Biden's COVID relief package supported by 70 percent of voters.
Campaign Supporting 'For the People Act' Continues
According to Common Cause, "For The People Act is a transformative, comprehensive bill addressing voting rights and election administration, money-in-politics, redistricting government transparency, and ethics. Many parts of the bill are reforms Common Cause has successfully won at the state and local level, often with bipartisan support. Now, the For the People Act is an opportunity to pass these important reforms at the federal level." Among the most important provisions in the bill are:
- Universal automatic voter registration, online voter registration, and same day registration
- Blocking partisan and racial gerrymandering by setting up independent redistricting commissions to draw legislative maps
- Making secret money organizations disclose their donors
- Making presidential candidates disclose their tax returns,
- Expanding conflict-of-interest laws to stop corruption, and requiring the Supreme Court to adopt a code of ethics.
For more details on HR-1, click here. To voice your support, you can call the office of Senator Thom Tillis at (202) 224-6342, and Senator Richard Burr at (910) 251-1058. To add your name to the Common Cause petition supporting HR1, click here.
Annual precinct organization meetings are taking place beginning last Saturday, and reaching as late as March 20th, all by Zoom! Don’t miss out on all the 2022 midterm election action - it all starts in the precincts. Candidates are already announcing, and we are organizing for victory. You must pre-register to attend your precinct meeting. Click here to pre-register. If you are not sure of your precinct, go to https://elections.nhcgov.com/ > Check Registration.
NHCDP will vote for new officers at the County Convention in April. In addition, we will vote on a dozen SEC members. If you are interested in serving or know someone who may want to serve, please contact any of the existing officers.
The Officers of the New Hanover County Democratic Party have identified a slate of nominees willing and able to serve in 2021-2023. They are:
Richard Poole - Chair
Victoria Garcia Velazco - First Vice Chair
Susanne Werner - Second Vice Chair
Bandorian Cromartie - Third Vice Chair
Brenda Fong - Treasurer
April Farr - Secretary
If others are interested in serving, nominations will be accepted from the floor at the convention.
Where: TBD by Precinct Organizers. Most on Zoom.
Best,
Richard Poole, Chair
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