By Mary Paden: Mike Bloomberg came in first, followed by Amy Klobuchar and then Pete Buttigieg at a straw poll conducted by the Mt. Vernon District Democratic Committee on Sunday, Feb. 16. The straw poll was taken at the committee’s annual Mardi Gras themed fundraiser, attended by 170 people including many local Democratic officials. Surrogates for each candidate gave short…
Ed. Note: Another in our series of personal statements of support from readers for Democratic presidential candidates By Susan Reidinger: Last March, I was tooling around Youtube when I somehow landed on a video of a guy on a CNN Town Hall. He referred to Mike Pence as the “(C)heerleader for the porn star presidency.” That was when my life…
By Paul Davis: Four young Democrats from Fairfax County were recently elected members of issues caucuses at the national level. The elections took place at the 2019 Young Democrats of America convention on July 16-22 in Indianapolis, Ind. The Fairfax Young Democrats elected are: Bo Cherif, Black Caucus Dan Rosenberg and Denver Supinger, Jewish Caucus Jessica Sun, Disabilities Caucus The…