6 County Voter Rally - Blue Tsunami to Hit Hudson Oct 18th

Written by: VictorInHudson on Oct 6, 2008 7:02 AM EDT

Linked to groups: DFA: Columbia County, DFA: Greene County, Capital District of NY/GenDFA, Democracy for the Hudson-Mohawk Region, Vassar College, Democracy for the Hudson Valley, Mid-Valley Region, Mid-Hudson Progressive Alliance, Kingston Democracy for America

Linked to campaigns: Obama for America

Blue Tsunami

The Rally in the Valley

A Massive Six County Hudson Valley Voter Rally/Concert/Party

Saturday October 18th  4pm - 4am

On October 18th the Columbia County Democratic Committee is sponsoring Blue Tsunami a massive voter rally in Hudson NY.  The event is intended to appeal to all ages and will spread over 12 hours. Blue Tsunami will take place at Basilica Industria an incredible former Iron Factory near the Waterfront in Hudson NY.  There will be candidates and elected officials in the early part of the day followed by a concert and it will culminate in a dance party. All tickets grant everyone all-day access with in and out privileges.

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Written by: Andrew C. White on May 6, 2008 2:11 PM EDT

Linked to groups: Capital District of NY/GenDFA

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Sen. David Paterson Q&A, Wed, June 14, 7:00 PM

Written by: Andrew C. White on Jun 13, 2006 1:14 PM EDT

Linked to groups: Capital District of NY/GenDFA

Hi Member,

State Senate Minority Leader and Democratic Lt. Governor candidate David Paterson will be our guest speaker tomorrow, Wednesday, June 14, 7:00 PM, at the SEIU Building 155 Washington Ave, Albany.

www.dfalink.com/event.php?id=729...

Sen. Paterson will speak briefly, including remarks on ballot access, followed by about 30 minutes of Q&A time.

Sen. Paterson has worked with us in the past on the paper ballot/optical scan issue and as a legally blind man himself is very sensitive to needs of the disabled community.

If you haven't had the chance to hear David Paterson speak previously he is very engaging, humorous and insightful. I anticipate a very fun evening.

Please RSVP for the event here:

www.dfalink.com/event.php?id=729...

Peace,

Andrew

Campaigning for Kirsten!

Written by: Andrew C. White on Jun 6, 2006 9:45 AM EDT

Linked to groups: Capital District of NY/GenDFA

Good Morning Member,

Campaign season is now in full swing and Democracy for the
Hudson-Mohawk Region and Capital District GenDFA have 2 great opportunities coming up to help our Congressional candidate Kirsten Gillibrand.

Following up on the great success of the Clifton Park canvass Carol Olszewski and Justin Rathman will be leading a petition and canvass event in Halfmoon Saturday, June 10, 12:00.

www.dfalink.com/event.php?id=850...

The Halfmoon Democratic Committee is just getting itself organized so this is a great chance for us to help Kirsten and help Democrats in this important (and growing) town get started!

There will be an ice cream social after the event. So please RSVP

www.dfalink.com/event.php?id=850...

and come on out for a great cause and have some fun!

The following Saturday, June 17, at 10:30 AM, Sue Hoff-Haynes and I will lead a petition and canvass event in the Town of Brunswick... right in Joe Bruno's backyard. We'll also have petitions available for Brian Premo, Bruno's first Democratic opponent in years, just in case giving Bruno a challenge sounds like fun to you!

Please join us and RSVP for June 17th in Brunswick here:

www.dfalink.com/event.php?id=897...

Sue will host us for a picnic around 2:00 PM so it will be a fun day of good work for a great candidate and good fun with the great people of DFHMR!

So please join us and RSVP for June 17th in Brunswick here:

www.dfalink.com/event.php?id=897...

Peace,

Andrew
p.s. be sure to sign up for one of two great DFHMR action events:

Halfmoon: www.dfalink.com/event.php?id=850...

Brunswick: www.dfalink.com/event.php?id=897...

Followup to My Earlier Post

Written by: Andrew Arthur on Apr 7, 2006 11:53 AM EDT

Linked to groups: Capital District of NY/GenDFA

(cc: andy white, ny/gendfa blog, acyd president peter carracappa)

As you may have heard, Peter Carracappa is now the President of the Albany County Young Democrats as of our next meeting. He was elected after running unopposed for that office. This is exciting news for us all, as he's been involved in Dean for America a couple of years back, and involved in DFA subsiquently.

He's thoughts are not to do something more informal then a full committee to study, and he certainly is welcome to working with this group. Right now, he notes we are only getting started, but like Andrew White I have a lot of hope that we can do stuff with this.

I'm probably shouldn't be speaking for Peter, but it's exciting news that he's now president of ACYD and I'm sure he will do much more outreach to the progressive community.

See the ACYD website: http://www.acyd.org/

ACYD and a Proposed Committee on Inter-Group Relations

Written by: Andrew Arthur on Mar 29, 2006 11:19 PM EST

Linked to groups: Capital District of NY/GenDFA

Today I sent the following rough proposal to the Albany County Young Democrats for their consideration. I hope to use this as both a catalyst to develop a relationship with the new Capital Region DFA younggen group and other ones in the Capital Region (like DFA, Save the Pine Bush and Bethlehem Neighboors for Peace).

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ACYD Members and Other Interested People.

I am proposing that we set up for 6 months (renewable if so desired) a
small committee to investigate and discuss opportunities for ACYD to be
more involved with other progressive causes normally outside of the
scope of our organization. I propose calling this committee, the
"Temporary Committee on Intergroup Relations".

Questions I propose we consider:

- What should be the role of ACYD in suggesting to our members other
useful groups to be involved in?

- Should we consider building closer ties with other progressive groups
outside of our immediate group or the party? Can we work closer with
labor, environmentalists, civil liberties groups, anti-war people, etc?
What role should we play in doing this? How can we reach out?

- Should our website link other groups -- or even post listings of
similiar progressive groups in our area?

- What relationship do we want to have with the new DFA group for young
adults knonw as "Capital District of NY/GenDFA"?

- What are the legal, political, and moral issues regarding this all?

I think one of the areas that the Democratic Party is lacking is
networking with other progressive groups. Much like Matt Elinger and
those nice people over at Neighboorhood Network are doing, I want to see
our group working to build closer relationships with groups that we need
their support for and they need our support.

Let's have the members of the proposed committee directly work with
leaders of the afforementioned groups

The committee upon expiration in 6 months would report back their status
of their findings to the body as a whole in a short report, along with
any suggested new bylaws or assorted revisions.

Let's talk about this idea. If you like it, I'd be more then willing to
write up a more formal proposal for eventual voting on.