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Location update:
This month's meeting will be held back at Camp Friendship (339 8th St.)
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President's Message
The time is coming. The time for everyone to actually get out and start helping candidates get elected. (I know many of you have been working out of state which is awesome but now we begin at home).
Petitioning is starting June 6th and all the candidates for Mayor, Comptroller, Public Advocate, Brooklyn DA and City Council, unopposed and those with races, need to gather signatures to get on the ballot for the September 12th Primary. If you have a candidate that you feel strongly about it's time to contact the campaign and find out how to help. Or come to our endorsement meetings May 25 and June 1, details below, and learn about the people running (other clubs have their own endorsements as well if you can't make ours).
Then it's time to stand on street corners, and in subways stations, and knock on doors in rain or shine and get people to let your candidate get on the ballot. If you want you can host fundraisers or enter data or make phone calls on their behalf. We need good people in office and you can help put them there but it takes blood,sweat and tears, and I mean that literally. Have fun!
Yours in solidarity,
Benjamin Solotaire, President CBID
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Special Elections for Executive Committee
We have three openings on the CBID Executive Committee. If you want to help plan the direction of CBID and keep the Resistance going you can run for ExComm. We usually meet the Monday after the General meetings in Park Slope (moving it when conflicts arise). The terms are one year but these terms fill out the rest of this year and you would run again in January.
The vote will be held at the June meeting and nominations will be made from the floor at that meeting. So think about it, if you have any questions or want to run, let me know at bencbid@gmail.com or 917 373 7484
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For info about how to help pressure NY State Senators on passing NY State Healthcare bills, please visit the below campaign:
https://passnyhealth.com/?source=direct_link&
The Problem
Millions lack insurance Even with the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), twelve percent of New York does not have insurance. With the Republican health care bill this number will balloon to over twenty percent of the population. Everyday 5 people die in New York because they don't have insurance, and that number is expected to rise as the elderly and most vulnerable will be the ones most affected by the reduced access to care.
The primary objective of for-profit insurers is to make a profit. These companies make billions of dollars a year and they reward their CEOs by paying them millions of our dollars a year. Thirty Percent of private insurance health care spending is on administration and advertising. In contrast, Medicaid and Medicare only spends three percent on their administrative costs.
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Judicial Endorsements Special Meeting
CBID will be holding a special meeting for endorsements of local judicial candidates.
This will take place:
Thursday, June 1st at 7pm
Greenwood Baptist Church (461 6th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215)
A big thank you to our Judicial Committee for setting this up, please make all efforts to attend!
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The Sad State of Voting: The Attack On Our Rights in NY
Thursday, May 30th from 6pm-8pm
First Unitarian Congregational Society119 Pierrepont St, Brooklyn, New York 11201
Most New Yorkers have no idea just how antiquated their voting laws are. It often takes an outsider explaining that it doesn't have to be this way, and it isn't as hard to vote in other states, for New Yorkers to understand that something might be wrong. Come join us for a panel discussion on how New York fits into the broader national environment of voter suppression and disenfranchisement and how we can push back and rally for change this year!
The Sad State of Voting: The Attack On Our Rights in NY
Moderated by Zachary Roth, author of The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy
With invited panelists
Damon Daniels, Demos
Julie Ebenstein, ACLU Voting Rights Project
James Hong, MinKwon Center for Community Action
Susan Lerner, Common Cause
Esmeralda Simmons, Center for Law and Social Justice, Medgar Evers College
Organized by the Brooklyn Voters Alliance of #GOBK
In partnership with Easy Elections NY
*Voter Registration Drive from 6 pm*
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Meeting Agenda:
At our May 25th General Meeting CBID will be endorsing in the following races:
New York City Mayor
New York City Public Advocate
New York City Comptroller
Brooklyn District Attorney
The meeting will be held at Camp Friendship, 339 8th St. near 6th Ave in Park Slope from 7:00 - 9:00pm.
All Democratic Candidates for the offices have been invited. Please come and hear what these candidates have to say about why they should have your vote!
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Upcoming Meeting Schedule:
Thursday, May 25th: General meeting, 7pm location TBD
Tuesday, May 30th: Civic Activism - Brooklyn Voter's Alliance Forum on Voting Rights
Thursday, June 1st: CBID Judicial candidate endorsements
Monday, June 5th: District Attorney Public Forum
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President's Picture of the Month
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Officers
President - Benjamin Solotaire
First VP - Joy Romanski
2nd VP - Eric Fields
Treasurer - Marty Bernstein
Corresponding Secretary - Asher Novek
Recording Secretary - Lisa Gueldenzopf
Executive Committee
Joanne Boger, Richard Bruce, Dan Campanelli, Thomas Carroll, Erica Cohen, Wrolf Courtney, Fathi Hegazy, Ben Karl, Lucy Koteen, Cheryl Krauss, David Michaelson, Warren Miner, Richard Morrell, David Pechefsky, Warren Radford, Nathan Rubin, Louis Schwartz, Matt Shahabian, Josh Silverstein, Cheryl Wertz, Dan Wise, Peter Zessos
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Ex-Officio:
Hon. Jake Gold, Hon. Lori Citron Knipel, Hon. Josh Skaller, Hon. Anne Swern
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