Fall 2018 Election Season Activities

Fall 2018 Election Season Activities

women with flags, voter registration materials

League Leaders' Letters for November:

From Suzan Requa, LWVDV Co-President: This election season has been the building block effort to help heal our democracy and stimulate activism at our critical local grass roots level.  Our work is some of the best news of this election year, including at the national level, with support of legal battles for voting rights and the fight against gerrymandering.

Thanks to you,

We assisted Diablo Valley College with a properly-run student body election. Thanks to the DVC election volunteers:  Shawn Gilbert, Ann Flynn, Nancy Thursby, Karen Dolder, Diane Griffiths, Ken Coates, Marion Morris, Martha Goralka, and Suzan Requa.

Thanks to you, 

Tiffany and Barbara assist a voter to register at Walnut Creek BART

 

 

We accomplished Voter Registration/pre-Registration drives and promoted Voter’s Edge at Los Medanos Community College; Pittsburg, Antioch, and Las Lomas High Schools; Food Bank locations in Concord and Pittsburg; Last Chance BART from Lafayette to Pittsburg stations; Tabora Gardens in Antioch and Arbolado Apartments in Walnut Creek; and Montego Senior Center in Walnut Creek.  Thanks to the outstanding Voter Registration Team members:  Shawn Gilbert, Tammy Moulton, Tiffany Martin, Karen Dolder, Amy Faltz, Elaine Carroll, Mary Schreiber and Cynthia, Marian Shostrom, Ann Flynn, Juliana Boyle, Lee Lawrence, Barbara Kuklewicz, Madeline Krimmel, Carol McKenna, Carol Addison, Alexandra Morris and Cathleen Kirk.

Thanks to you,

We supported multiple live and televised Candidate Forums under Martha Goralka’s dedication, leadership and coordination and posted the links on our website and Voter’s Edge and Facebook. Our hardworking moderators included Gail Murray, Ann Flynn, Jim Jakel, and Martha Goralka. Many others assisted with question sorting and timing! Thank you, Martha! (More from Martha below!)

Thanks to you,

We set a new record for the number of successful Pros and Cons Presentations under Kay James’ dedicated leadership and coordination, and posted the live stream on Voter’s Edge and Facebook.  Thank you, Kay!  (See more from Kay here)

Thanks to you,

We gained outstanding candidate participation on Voter’s Edge and continuously added links and additional voter information for candidates and ballot measures on Voter’s Edge under Marian Shostrom’s outstanding leadership.  Thank you, Marian!  (See more from Marian here)

Thanks to you,

We utilized our online resources under Leslie Stewart’s leadership on the LWVDV website and social media.  Thank you, Leslie!  Facebook: thank you, Nancy Thursby!  Twitter- thank you, Leslie, Diane Bianchi, Tammy Moulton, Lauren Babb, Marian Shostrom and Arlynda Huerta! (See more from Leslie here)

Thanks to you,

We took positions on local ballot measures through the significant efforts of our state League representative, Lee Lawrence, and the Action/Advocacy Team.  Thank you, Lee!

Thanks to you,

We have grown in active membership through your participation and your sharing of our accomplishments and voter information.

 

Martha Goralka, LWVDV Co-President:

Gail Murray moderating 2018 Clayton candidate forum, from videoWhat a joyous and exciting time this election season has been!   The League’s entire focus this election cycle was on educating voters with the many pathways the League has developed over the past 98 years!  We registered voters just about everywhere and made new friends just about everywhere.  We hosted 27 taped candidates’ forums at CCTV and participated in another 15 live experiences—some televised or live streamed and some just straightforward live audience events.  A special thank you to our moderators who did forum after forum:  Gail Murray, Ann Flynn, Jim Jakel and Martha Goralka.  Timers to profusely thank are Linda Soliven, Diane Bianchi, Elaine Carrol, Sheila Fish, Allison Dibley, Tara Doolittle, Ashley Coates, Ken Coates, Lietta Wood, and Shawn Gilbert – many doing more than one forum.  Fabulous question sorters included Ashley Coates and Jan Berckerfeldt.  What an amazing team!

We did a special presentation and voter outreach at Rubicon in Antioch where Shawn Gilbert reminded former felons that their voting rights had been restored after they’d finished their obligation to society.  She registered six new voters.  We also did a special voting presentation at First Five Contra Costa’s new Antioch location where Shawn recounted the history of voting rights in the United States and reviewed voters guides and how to use them effectively. 

We reached thousands of voters with our live, on line and televised efforts.  I hope you are as proud as I am to know such amazing, dedicated members - both brand new friends and longtime friends.

 I hope you join us on November 17th at the Concord library as we review and celebrate our election season successes.