Democrats for Equality, Today, is HERstoric. Our presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden has selected our California Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate. As announced officially from Joe Biden’s Twitter account, it’s the announcement that has been heard around the world. Congratulations to our Senator — and, to echo the words of our Governor: Let’s go …
Democrats for Equality, With the Democratic National Convention taking place the same week as our regularly scheduled meeting in August, we will not be meeting on our regular date next month. Instead, we will be holding a special meeting on Saturday, August 1st at 2:00pm which has previously been noticed on our …
Democrats for Equality, Yesterday, was a landmark moment in history for our LGBTQ community. Our U.S. Supreme Court on a 6-3 vote ruled that an employer who fires an employee simply for being LGBTQ is a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Before Monday, you …
Democrats for Equality, Results have been posted from the caucus-level election of Bernie and Biden delegates for the upcoming 2020 Democratic National Convention. We want to congratulate club members Rebecca Philpott, Cipriano Vargas, Gloria Conejo, Jose Caballero, and board member Evlyn Andrade on their wins! Statewide, California Democrats will send 495 delegates and 35 alternates to …
Democrats for Equality, Last night’s totally-not-overly-complicated endorsement meeting via Zoom (I hate Zoom) resulted in several new additions to our list of club recommendations for this 2020 election season! We passed and have now officially endorsed in a number of post-primary races on consent, including Kate Schwartz for State Assembly District 75, Terra Lawson-Remer for County Board of …
Democrats for Equality, Yesterday, we sent out a call-to-action e-mail for the two special elections next Tuesday (May 12th). If you would like to help out with some calls or texts to voters to help elect Elizabeth Romero in State Senate District 28, and/or Christy Smith in Congressional District 25, we added all the volunteer …
Democrats for Equality, Next Tuesday (May 12) there are two special elections happening that the California Democratic Party has issued calls to action for. Both are all-mail-ballot elections. There is a special election happening just north of us in the Coachella Valley for State Senate District 28. Our Democratic nominee …
Democrats for Equality, Yesterday, our club’s immediate past president and current Democratic Party Chair Will Rodriguez-Kennedy announced on Facebook that he has tested positive for COVID-19. Doctors at the VA Medical Center continue to monitor him in the ICU. Additionally, club member and our endorsed candidate in Council District 9 Kelvin Barrios announced that …
Democrats for Equality, Late yesterday, our club’s immediate past president and current Democratic Party Chair Will Rodriguez-Kennedy posted on social media that he has been hospitalized at the VA Medical Center. Unfortunately, Will has been symptomatic over the last couple days including muscle aches, coughing, difficulty breathing, chills, nausea, among other awful …
Democrats for Equality, Late yesterday, Steve Padilla’s daughter Ashleigh released a statement updating on his condition. Unfortunately, Steve’s condition worsened and he was admitted to UCSD Thornton Hospital ICU. Days ago he had announced on social media that he had tested positive for COVID-19. Again, we want to offer any positive thoughts and send …
