Newsletter 8-25-21
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NEWSLETTER 8/18 — Volunteer Opportunities Up the Wazoo! + special event sneak peeks
How many days until
Election Day (Nov 2, 2021)?
75 Days!
Last newsletter, we shared with you our powerhouse list of NJ 11th for Change endorsed candidates. They impressed us then, and as we see them pounding the pavement to meet potential voters, they impress us even more!
T.C. McCourt, out canvassing for Morris County Commissioner.
NJ 11th for Change proudly endorsed this entire slate.
But candidates can't do it alone! They need support from volunteers like US. NJ 11th for Change has encouraged all of our endorsed candidates — from all corners of the 11th Congressional District — to share their campaigns' volunteer opportunities with us. We've got a nice array this week, and there will be more to come each week, from now until Election Day! If you miss canvassing, or phone banking, or text banking ... NOW IS THE TIME! Please check below in the EVENTS & VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES section of this newsletter, and in upcoming editions. Every week, we promise there will be new options, and more and more candidates you can support.
Newsletter 8-4-21
This week, NJ 11th for Change proudly released its 2021 candidate endorsements!
What?!? MORE elections? you ask.
Yes, more elections. It’s New Jersey. We like elections here.
For politicians and for activists, that means one thing: no rest for the weary.
Top of the ticket in 2021 is the race for governor, and there are lots of state, county and municipal races that require our attention, too. NJ 11th for Change chose to endorse in the races for:
- GOVERNOR
- COUNTY COMMISSIONER (for the counties in CD11 territory)
- STATE SENATE (for the legislative districts in CD 11 territory)
- STATE GENERAL ASSEMBLY (for the legislative districts in CD 11 territory)
That amounts to twenty-four different races, with seventy-seventy different candidates to consider. GULP.
Happy 4th of July! We Have Not Yet Begun to Fight!
1776.
American schoolchildren have long been raised to feel pride in that date. We were raised to believe that 1776 means many things: Victory. Democracy. Independence. We think of that as the date when America became America.
And yet, 1776 wasn’t the end of the fight. It wasn’t the beginning of the fight, either.
—It was 1775 when Patrick Henry declared “Give me liberty or give me death!” in an attempt to rouse troops to fight in Virginia.
—It was 1775 when Paul Revere took his ride, when the battles of Lexington and Concord were fought, and the Battle of Bunker Hill.
—It was 1779 when John Paul Jones declared “I have not yet begun to fight!” before losing his ship, but ultimately winning.
—It was 1783 when the Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary War, and we could begin the hard work of creating a functioning nation.
So what was 1776? It was just a point along the process, a single year in a long, long fight.
Fast forward to 2020.
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