May 2018 Vol. 2

The CitizenExpress

A smaller version of the Newsletter of the Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats that you already know and love!

Next CBID Meeting Thursday May 24th

Camp Friendship, 339 8th street
7:00pm

May Meeting Agenda:

Club Business
Guest speaker: Gubernatorial Candidate Cynthia Nixon
Review CBID Constitutional Amendment Proposals

Endorsements:
44th District Leader, Male
Jacob Gold
Doug Schneider
No Endorsement

44th District Leader, Female
Lori Citron Knipel
No Endorsement

Civil Court: Countywide (choose up to 2)*
Loren Bailey (incumbent, recommended)
Ingrid Joseph (incumbent, recommended)
No Endorsement

Surrogate Court*
Harriet Thompson (the judicial committee recommends no endorsement)
No Endorsement

Civil Court 1st Division*
Devin P. Cohen (declined to answer questionnaire, no recommendation)
No Endorsement

*The Judicial Committee sent questionnaires, reviewed decisions and conducted in person interviews of all of the judicial candidates, and these are their recommendations.

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It's Jumaane's Birthday- And you're invited to the party!.

This exciting event is a great chance to celebrate CBID's choice for Lieutenant Governor's 42nd birthday while supporting his campaign to bring real, progressive reform to New York State.

Tickets for Jumaane's Party are available here: https://bit.ly/2rxYF7f

Petitioning Training in Support of Zellnor Myrie

Petitioning starts in June! It is one of the most important and concrete ways that CBID helps its endorsed candidates. If you've never petitioned before and want to know what its all about, or just want a refresher, please join us at the following petitioning trainings:

Wednesday, 5/23 7-9pm, led by Josh Skaller
Saturday, 6/2 4-6pm, led by Dan Campinelli

Both will be at the Community Room at 230 Park Place, and will be joined by IDC challenger Zellnor Myrie's campaign and his team. Zellnor is a strong progressive challenging an IDC aligned incumbent. He can use all the help we can give him.

Volunteer & Petition Training for Blake Morris

When: Wednesday May 30th
Time: 7-8:30 P.M.
Location: 426 E. 16th street, Brooklyn NY

NEW DATE: June 23
1:00 PM 3:00 PM
Prospect Park (15th Street lawn, near the Prospect Park F/G, across the street from the movie theater)

There will be picnic food, good company, lawn games, and good progressive energy all around!

For more information click here.

Politics 101

The systems and procedures that drive democracy are often obscured from the view from the very people it's meant to serve. This workshop opens up these topics, and others, which are ignored by political science classes, the media and even Wikipedia pages. It covers covers topics such as: Political Geography, The Party Structure in America, and How to engage in the existing system for real effect.

Date: Monday June 4th
Time: 7PM-9PM
Location: Centre for Social Innovation, 601 West 26 Street 3rd Floor, Manhattan, New York 10001

More information here.

We have endorsed a great group of candidates. Here is where you can donate, volunteer or get more information (but please donate!):

April Meeting Endorsements

NY State Governor - Cynthia Nixon
NY State Attorney General -Eric Schneiderman
NY State Comptroller - Thomas DiNapoli
Senate District 17 - Blake Morris
Senate District 21 - No Decision
Senate District 25 - Velmanette Montgomery

March Meeting Endorsements

Lieutenant Governor – Jumaane Williams
Assembly District 44 – Robert Carroll
Assembly District 52 – Jo Anne Simon
Senate District 20 – Zellnor Myrie
Senate District 22 – Andrew Gounardes
District Leaders 52nd District – Josh Skaller (male) and Anne Swern (female)

February Meeting Endorsements

U.S. CONGRESS

NY1 – David Pechefsky
NY2 – Liuba Grechen Shirley
NY7 – Nydia Velázquez
NY8 – Hakeem Jeffries
NY9 – Yvette Clarke
NY11 – Max Rose

Question of the Week:

How in the world did Rudy Giulani manage to get elected Mayor of New York City? Twice??!??

Upcoming Meeting Schedule:

General Meetings, held at Camp Friendship at 7pm

Thursday, May 24th
Thursday June 28th
Thursday, July 26th

Executive committee, 7pm, locations TBD

Tuesday, May 29th ***NOTE date changed due to Memorial Day
Monday, July 2nd
Monday, July 30th

CBID Executive Committee

Officers
President - Asher Novek
First VP - Joy Romanski
2nd VP - Eric Fields
Treasurer - Marty Bernstein
Corresponding Secretary - Erica Cohen
Recording Secretary - Melissa Turoff

Executive Committee
Chris Barron, Richard Bennett, Richard Bruce, Dan Campanelli, Mary Beth Carroll, Thomas Carroll, Joel Galker, Marcia Kannry, Lucy Koteen, Cheryl Krauss, David Michaelson, Warren Miner, Alison Mingus, James Morgano, Ted Monell, Alice Ott, Nathan Rubin, Hilary van Santen, Louis Schwartz, Chris Stauffer, Matt Shahabian, Jessica Selecky, Josh Silverstein, Benjamin Theodore, Cheryl Wertz, Dan Wise, Peter Zessos

Ex-Officio:
Hon. Jake Gold, Hon. Lori Citron Knipel, Hon. Josh Skaller, Hon. Anne Swern, Benjamin Solotaire