Vote Blue 2020 Gala, Scheduled for Thursday May 7, 2020 Has Been Postponed
Events & Calendar
Seven Congressional Candidates at February Meeting
VID’s February Meeting Spotlighted Seven Congressional Candidates, Two Were Endorsed Full Meeting Minutes Here With seven congressional candidates in the wings, President David Siffert began his February Meeting President’s Report with some announcements: A special meeting on February 18 to interview and endorse Civil Court Judges for District 1 and county-wide February 20 VID will hold a Budget Justice Town Hall to discuss the necessity of raising taxes on the wealthy in order to preserve certain social programs, and the possible effects of the Governor’s arbitrary 2% spending cap Petitioning starts February 25 A petitioning kickoff breakfast will be on […]
Petition Pick Up Started Wednesday
The Petition Pick-Up Schedule Has Changed Petition pick-up started Wednesday, 2/26 from 6:00-7:30 PM for people to pick up and return completed petitions. The club will NOT be open on the evening of Thursday, 2/27.Here is the full schedule of when you can pick up petitions (and go out petitioning with us): Wed. 2/26: 6:00-7:30 PM Sat. 2/29: 10am-12 noon (VID petitioning kickoff breakfast, with petitioning afterwards) Mon. 3/2: 6:00 – 7:30 PM Thurs. 3/5: 6:00 – 7:30 PM Sat. 3/7: 10am – 12:00 noon. (Petitioning will also take place at Abingdon Sq., 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Corner Hudson St. & Bethune St. and at […]
2020 Officers; NYS Candidate Endorsements
VID Elects 2020 Officers; NYS Candidate Endorsements at January 9th Meeting. Full Meeting Minutes Here David Siffert opened the 2020 Officers; NYS Candidate Endorsements meeting with a discussion about how to handle endorsing civil judge candidates in light of the fact that the County’s panel will not report out approved judges until the day after our February meeting. He suggested three options: One, to hold a special meeting on the Tuesday after the regular meeting to address the endorsements. Two, to leave the endorsements to the Executive Committee. And three, to hold an extra long meeting on the normal date, February 13. and […]