NEWSLETTER
March 9, 2024
Letter from the Chair
Dear Community,
The 2024 Democracy Fair was a huge success!
26 candidates showed up with petitions, campaign volunteers, signs, and
powerful speeches.
15 ally and partner organizations joined us to table at the event.
9 postcards to voters got written, and 200 more distributed by Northeast Arizona
Native Democrats.
38 people stopped by the Elections Office table to get information.
Children made Biden-Harris friendship bracelets using kits provided by Arizona
Women for Biden-Harris, created donkey puppets, and painted signs.
1 new voter got registered.
85 people signed the Arizona for Abortion Access petition.
7 dozen custom tee shirts were designed and printed in advance of
the Fair and are now available for sale on our ActBlue.
1,000 waterproof stickers were designed and printed ahead of the Fair, with
enough to supply the Roosevelt-Kennedy Gala with swag.
8 tee shirts were sold at the Fair.
$2,000 + raised with the Raffle.
Nearly 300 people attended the event!
Thank you to everyone who showed up to Democracy Fair 2024. Whether you were
there making popcorn or a campaign speech, circulating or signing petitions, setting up
or packing up, tabling, learning, campaigning, registering voters, selling raffle tickets,
wrangling candidates, or running tech, every effort we make now brings us closer to a
Blue ’24. We are the grassroots campaign to reelect Biden-Harris and Democrats all the
way down the ballot, and there is nothing we can’t do when we work together.
Special thank you to the custodial and managerial staff at Coconino High School for
being so helpful, all the volunteers who worked the Fair, Nancy Branham for organizing
the Raffle, Joshua Butler for designing tees and stickers, and Chairwoman Yolanda
Bejarano and the Arizona Democratic Party for the grant that paid for it all!
Blue Arizona 2024!
Laura
Join Us at our Monthly Action Meeting, March 9!
Join your fellow defenders of democracy at our monthly gathering, Saturday, March 9, 10 am – noon. Once again we have an action-filled agenda designed to engage and support you in your commitment to a stronger, more just society. We’ll hear from candidates for the open seats on the Arizona Corporation Commission (so important to the sustainability of our energy future). We’ll learn from Deb Harris about the history and community roots of our meeting place, the Murdoch Center. We’ll share information on voting in the upcoming Presidential Preference Election, renewing our commitments as Precinct Committee persons (PC’s), volunteering as poll observers, and more. And of course we’ll be selling tickets and getting excited for the Roosevelt – Kennedy Gala and other April events.
Please purchase your tickets for our 24th annual Roosevelt-Kennedy gala, and join us April 20th for an evening of celebration and camaraderie.
Help us raise funds for our work to swing Arizona blue in 2024!
Tickets are on sale now!
$125 per person or $1,000 per table.
Learn about the event and purchase tickets through ActBlue or
mail or bring payment in person to the office.
Eleanor Roosevelt Award Winners:
Mary Kuzell-Babbitt
Debbie Leavitt
Isabel Archuleta
Kerry Blume
Frank Brandt
Bill Cherry
Jack Doggett
Mary McKell
Jena Perpich
Alex Vernon
Coral Evans
Patrice Horstman
Bill Auberle
Sue Strobel
Eva Putzova
Lori Polini-Standinger
Patty Hansen
Helene Babbitt
Sharon Edgar
Lena Wallen
Cathy Small
Congratulations again to prior Eleanor Roosevelt award winners! The Coconino County Democratic Party appreciates all you’ve done to defend Democracy. We look forward to celebrating the addition of the 2024 Eleanor Roosevelt award winner, to be announced at the Roosevelt-Kennedy Gala on April 20th. Please submit nominations to the Executive Committee at Chair@coconinodemocrats.org. Previous winners are not eligible. Explain who the nominee is and how they have expressed their commitment to the duty of the Democratic Party as described above. Submissions should be no more than 350 words.The Eleanor Roosevelt Award recognizes a person whose contributions to the community echo the example set by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and whose life and work are an answer to her call to action.
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home—so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in, the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning here, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerned citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.”
T-Shirts On-sale!
Wear your Democratic Party pride and help us raise money to support our work across Coconino County!
Regular fit, crew neck, sizes M,L,XL.
Relaxed fitted V-neck, sizes , S, M, L.
Tee Shirts available for a $36.00 donation to the CCDems via check or ActBlue.
Boost Our Candidates over the Line and onto the Ballot!
The roster of Democratic candidates for state, county, and legislative offices is filling in. And because of the new date for the summer Primary Election, these candidates are facing an imminent deadline of April 1 to file signatures to get on the ballot! Go to this page on our website to meet our candidates: https://coconinodemocrats.org/2024-candidates/To help them reach the requirements for signatures (and, for Clean Election candidates, the requirement for $5 campaign donations), find them on the eQual page on the Arizona Secretary of State website:https://apps.azsos.gov/equal/https://apps.azsos.gov/apps/election/eps/op/It takes only a minute to help our candidates secure their positions on the ballot – do it now!
We Need YOU to Serve as a Precinct Committee Person!
You’ve heard us describe the importance of our PC’s – the Precinct Committee persons who serve as our liaisons to the wider community. Though new terms don’t begin officially until fall, NOW is the time to step forward to keep our County Party moving.
Whether you are a current PC planning to stay connected, or you are interested in becoming a PC for the first time, you have two options for nominating yourself.
You can file a nominating petition with the signatures of 10 registered Democrats who live in your precinct (deadline to bring to our office is March 25);
OR
You can file an affidavit to be a write-in candidate without needing any other signatures (must be dated and brought to our office between April 2 and April 8).
Pick up the appropriate petitions at our Monthly Action Meeting, March 9. Or come by our office in the Historic Ice House, downtown Flagstaff (201 E. Birch, Suite 6).
Petitions and affidavits should be returned to the office prior to the deadlines, so we can track how we are doing on filling our available slots.
Practice Your Voting Skills in This Month’s
Presidential Preference Election!
Early voting in the PPE is going on now. If you’ve received a mail-in ballot, don’t forget to complete and return it (through the mail or at one of the drop-off boxes). You can vote in person up through March 15 at one of the early voting sites. Or you can vote at your precinct polling location or at one of the County’s vote centers, in person, on Election Day, March 19. Complete information on all of these options, and more – including sample ballots! – is available at the Elections Department website:
https://coconino.az.gov/3292/60149/Presidential-Preference-Election
Enjoy a Front-row Seat for Democracy:
Serve as a Poll Observer on Election Day!
Our statewide Coordinated Campaign is still recruiting and training poll observers to watch voting and, if necessary, to assist voters at Coconino County polling places and vote centers during the Primary and General Elections this year. Use this link to sign up – you’ll be contacted about the very helpful on-line training.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdQJy4Zgr-6cKrzzPRVGu1FJP38twzQ9GIKJS2W-7xAkR97Kw/viewform
Arizona for Abortion Access Ballot Initiative
The Coconino County Democrats office is your local petition hub. We have the Arizona for Abortion Access (AAA) ballot initiative petitions available and ready for circulation.
The AAA Campaign requires that all petition circulators must first complete an official petition circulator training. Right now there are online trainings available by registering with Healthcare Rising and/ or Arizona’s List. The Coconino Democratic Party and Indivisible NAZ are hosting a monthly in-person training. The next will be at 11am, March 23, 2024.
*Please note in advance, the AAA Coalition requires circulators to complete the petition training and provide your original training date information to check-out any petitions from the Flagstaff or NAU Hub.
Check out Arizona’s List, Healthcare Rising, our website calendar & our Mobilize page for news, updates, and training information.
- You can stop by on TUESDAYS and Fridays between 11:30 AM-1:30 PM to pick up petitions.
- And get petitions notarized TUESDAYS and Fridays between 11:30 AM-1:30 PM.
- We are looking for volunteers to host events, add new locations, and notarize petitions.
- If you are a notary and would like to volunteer services, please email us.
Beginning MARCH 1st: First Fridays with the Coconino Democrats!
- Visit us at the Historic Ice House from 5PM-8PM to view the ongoing art displays, and stop by the Coconino County Democratic Party office to SIGN THE ARIZONA FOR ABORTION ACCESS PETITION and learn how to get involved. Pick up a temporary tattoo or make a button from one of our designs!
Getting this initiative onto the 2024 ballot will be key to turning out the vote and wining all races from re-electing Biden to flipping our legislature. We need your help!
***Coconino County Democrats volunteer to serve dinner at the
Flagstaff Family Food Center Kitchen on the First Thursday of each month.
This commitment is from 3PM to 6PM @ their kitchen located at
1903 N. 2nd Street, Flagstaff, AZ.
We’re looking for folks to serve meals on
March 7th and April 4th 2024.
Sign up at Family Food Center.
To share an upcoming event in our bi-monthly newsletter or the monthly events calendar on our website, please email us the details by Friday prior to each newsletter.
2024 Democracy Fair at Coconino High School, February 24th—thanks to all who participated!
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