Message from the Chair

I always love to recognize people who do good work in our community. Generally, these folks aren’t publicly lauded but thanks to Representative Tarra Simmons there are people who do get such acclaim with her Champions of Justice Awards. One such person this year is none other than the 23^rd LD Vice-Chair, Patrick R. Wright. It was an individual award for work with the LBGTQ+ community. CONGRATS, Patrick!

In just over two weeks, ballots for this November’s election will be in the mail. Your ballot should reach you by October 16. Please VOTE!

We have local school board races, mayoral races and city council races. There are elections for fire, parks, port, sewer, utility and water district commissioners. In short, there are elections for offices for virtually all aspects of government that affect your life. While these elections rarely get the exposure that higher level offices do (such as state/national), they are vitally important to the functioning of our everyday lives. We have people running for these offices – see list below – that need your help to get elected. The candidates need people to help them doorbell neighborhoods and educate them about the candidates who are running and then to call people to remind them to turn in their ballot. Please do your part to help these people get elected. These are people we said we support so let’s show them that support! And, VOTE – that is what really counts!