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This week’s featured 2019 Democracy Champion: OneVirginia2021
Please join us for our annual Champions of Democracy celebration in Washington, D.C. on Monday, November 18 at 6:30 p.m. We will toast the national momentum behind Ranked Choice Voting and electoral reform in general and salute the passion and dedication of the people who helped make it possible.
This year's champions include brilliant activists, academics, our rock star board chairman, and a burgeoning rock star in the Congress. FairVote will honor U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD); Nirvana bassist and board chair Krist Novoselic; Harvard University professor and political theorist Danielle Allen; Virginia redistricting advocates One Virginia 2021; as well as state and city achievements by FairVote Washington, and courageous, forward-looking public officials in New York City and Utah.
Our featured honoree this week is One Virginia 2021, which earns a 2019 Democracy Champion Award for its tireless and creative coalition building in Virginia that created a giant step forward for redistricting reform. Earlier this year, a bipartisan array of lawmakers passed the first read of a state constitutional amendment that would end partisan gerrymandering in Virginia. Now comes the even harder part: Winning a second vote in 2020, even if the legislature changes hands this fall. Executive director Brian Cannon and his dedicated team have energetically advanced reform in every imaginable way, building a grass-roots operation that's visible everywhere Virginians go, working with lawmakers across the aisle, making films to explain complicated concepts, supporting litigation, and sponsoring hundreds of events across the state to educate voters. They're a real model of how to approach nonpartisan reform.
We'd love to have you be part of this special event, which will be held in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill. Get your tickets here. We look forward to celebrating with you, and appreciate your support throughout the years. If you can’t make it to the event but would like to signal your support, we welcome your donation.
Thank you!
Rob
Richie
President and CEO of
FairVote
http://www.fairvote.org/
