It appears to be the Year of the Woman again in Virginia, as five of the six Democratic primaries to pick candidates for Congress chose a woman. And Larry Sabato’s “Crystal Ball” has shifted the ratings of three of those races more toward the Democrats. The most endangered Virginia GOP membe ...
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De Ferranti wins primary; starts tough fall campaign
Matt de Ferranti won the June primary nomination for the County Board, setting up one of the biggest local challenges in years as he fights to unseat former Republican, now conservative Independent, John Vihstadt in November. De Ferranti won 61 percent of the primary vote to secure the nomination o ...
Extreme Trump-GOP agenda bad for all families
Report from Chair Jill Caiazzo Immigrant families are the latest and most graphic casualties of the extreme Trump-GOP agenda -- but they are not alone. Families in Virginia and across the country are struggling as a result of Trump-GOP policies that favor the big donor over the little guy, and more ...
Blue Families lays out its campaign agenda for autumn
The Blue Families program of Arlington Dems plans to be active not only in Arlington this fall but also in the 7th and 10th Congressional Districts to retire both Dave Brat and Barbara Comstock from the House of Representatives. Blue Families is the Arlington Dem initiative to set up campaign event ...
Next Monthly Meeting All Dems Invited
We’re moving again—not the location, but the date. Our usual first Wednesday of the month is the 4th of July. So this month we will meet the second Wednesday, July 11—but still in our standard site in the NRECA Building. Our program for the month will be a panel to discuss Virginia’s e ...
More bylaws to be voted on at this month’s meeting
Technical Amendments to Bylaws Up for ACDC Vote in July As part of the biennial Bylaws update for Arlington Democrats, a group of technical amendments, primarily refining the Reorganization Meeting process, will be up for consideration at the monthly meeting July 11. The amendments were unanimously ...
Donkey Ears
Listening to the doings of Arlington’s Dems as overheard by Dan Steen and Mädi Green Moving to Arlington: Our former chair, Kip Malinosky, is taking a job in Arlington this fall. Kip has long been a teacher of civics and social studies in the Fairfax County school system. But he will now ...
Annual Dem Messenger is slated for September 22
Mark your calendar for the annual delivery of the Democratic Messenger newspaper to begin Saturday, September 22. For more than a third of a century, Arlington Dems have hand delivered a copy of the Messenger to every door stoop in the county. We can’t get into a lot of apartment complexes, so ...
Corey Stewart pledges to be ‘vicious’
Corey Stewart, Virginia’s champion brickbat-tosser, won the Republican nomination for senator in the June primary and immediately promised Virginians he would carry out a “brutal and vicious” campaign in his effort to unseat Sen. Tim Kaine. “We have to be very aggressive and brutal and vici ...
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