Most of the
candidates for city elections are in these videos from the LCDP meeting of 14 September 2015.
Below are links to each candidate video, followed by a video playlist. You can become an LCDP member or renew today to help elect Democrats! Continue reading
Meet the candidates who are running for mayor, city council, and school board!
When: 6PM Monday September 14th 2015
Where:
New location this month:
Mama June’s Home Cookin’
3286 Inner Perimeter Rd.
Valdosta, GA
Facebook: event
You can become an LCDP member or renew today to help elect Democrats!
This is a nonpartisan election, and all candidates are invited to speak Monday night. Here are all the candidates who qualified for this election, according to the Lowndes County Board of Elections. (Formatting is how they sent it.) Continue reading
Local candidates for city elections and DPG Chair Dubose Porter spoke
after
music by the best band in the world
and as usual excellent food,
July 7th at
the annual Lowndes County Democratic Party BBQ, with
100 or so paying attendees.
LCDP meets again tonight about K-12 education in Valdosta and Lowndes County.
LCDP Vice Chair for Elections Dr. Dennis Marks reminds us: Continue reading
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Record signup for LCDP BBQ this evening: city candidates on transportation, environment, jobs and DPG Chair DuBose Porter
Valdosta, July 7th — More than 80 people have already signed up for the annual Lowndes County Democratic Party BBQ, 6PM tonight at Mathis Auditorium, to hear candidates for local city elections talk about jobs, transportation, environment, property rights, and other issues raised at previous LCDP meetings, plus DuBose Porter, Chairman of the Democratic Party of Georgia. With good food (meat and vegetarian) from a local caterer and live music by local band Backstreet Blazers LCDP also directly helps the local economy tonight, as it does with its periodic Cash Mobs. Plus a political quiz by VSU's own Dr. LaPlant!
Attendance at the event could beat last year's record when Continue reading
Bridgette Hylick, Tom Hochschild, and
The Backstreet Blazers band will be performing at the Lowndes County
Democratic Party BBQ at Mathis Auditorium in Valdosta, GA, 6PM Tuesday,
July 7.
Get your tickets now: www.lowndesdems.org for music, food, local candidates for city offices, and Dubose Porter, Chairman of the Democratic Party of Georgia. Continue reading
LCDP meetings discuss local matters that matter in local elections, such as City Matters in April, Public Transportation in May, Environment and Property Rights in June. July is the annual LCDP BBQ, this time with candidates for municipal elections and the Chair of the Democratic Party of Georgia, plus all of the above Local Maters and more. Facebook event.
Lowndes County Democratic Party
Annual Barbecue
Local Matters for Local Elections
DPG Chairman: Dubose Porter
Municipal Candidates
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
6:00 p.m.
Mathis Auditorium
2300 North Ashley Street Valdosta, GA 31602
Tickets $25.00 (Children under 12, $12.50)
Make your reservations now!
Reservation Form
Where can you vote on Tuesday May 20th,
which is Election Day for the Special Election for Lowndes County
Commission District 5, for
the Lowndes County Board of Education,
and for the elections for judges?
Remember, they’re not in November: Tuesday May 20th
is the election for these races,
unless there’s a runoff.
Plus Tuesday is Primary Election Day for the Georgia
statehouse, statewide offices, and U.S. Congress.
You can find your polling place in
My Voter Page by the Georgia Secretary of State.
Or you can zoom and pan on the
VALOR GIS Election Boundary Map.
Turnout matters: elections are often won by a handful of votes.
After you find your polling place, please call your friends and neighbors
and help them find theirs.
For a longer list to call, contact Gretchen.
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Turnout is at 4% so far, with the other party voting twice
as many in early voting.
Call your friends.
Contact Gretchen; she’ll get you a call list.
Contact a candidate; they’ll get you a walklist.
Local elections affect you directly: water, sewer, trash, roads, education,
taxes, and laws.
It’s time to get people out and vote!
As Dexter Sharper (D 177 GA House) says:
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!! Get out to VOTE this week from 7am-7pm for EARLY VOTING at 2808 Oak Street! This is a VERY Important Primary Election……..The Last day to vote in the Primary Election is MAY 20th! PLEASE PEOPLE!! Don’t be a person that only vote during the PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION…..People DIED for us to VOTE in ALL Elections!
If Democrats turn out and vote for
LCDP Chair Gretchen Quarterman
in the nonpartisan
Special Election for Lowndes County Commission District 5,
she wins on May 20th, Continue reading