2nd endorsement notice

Endorsement meeting

January 03, 2022

Endorsement Agenda Item

PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE NOTICE AS IT CONTAINS IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING THE DWC-SD PLANNED ENDORSEMENT VOTES FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY.

As per the notice you received on December 26, 2021, the DWC-SD has two endorsement meetings scheduled for January. The first is this coming Sunday, January 9, 2022, from 1:00 to 4:30 pm. In addition, we plan to attempt to endorse in the San Diego City Council District 2 race at our regular membership meeting on Monday, January 17, 2022.

As a reminder, per the Club by-laws as amended on 11/16/2021:

“A General Member in good standing who has attended at least two (2) prior meetings, as a member, in the previous twelve (12) months shall be eligible to vote for Club Officer elections and Club endorsements.”

Only those members who meet the above voting eligibility requirements will receive an email from the Democratic Woman’s Club Endorsement Committee with your secure ballot to vote at each meeting. If you are eligible to vote you should receive and email:

  • Today, January 3, 2022, titled Your January 9 DWCSD Endorsement Ballot is HERE

  • On Thursday, January 13, titled Your January 17 DWCSD Endorsement Ballot is HERE

Please be sure to open and read each of those emails, as they contain all the information you need to participate in each of our scheduled endorsement meetings If you do not see them in your inbox, please check your spam/junk mail folder. The email will also contain the Zoom link for the applicable meeting, a link to view the candidate questionnaires,

and a personalized secure link to your voting ballot

.

For those of you eligible to vote who have multiple DWC-SD members in your family, but use only one email address, we will send separate emails for each eligible club member in your family.

These are not duplicate emails

. Each one should be addressed to only one of you. Since each ballot is personalized and secure, each member needs to receive their own email to be able to vote. So if your family falls in this category, please be sure to look for separate emails for each of the DWC-SD members in your family and ensure each of you vote using the links in the email addressed to you.

On January 9, 2022, we will attempt to endorse in the following races:

San Diego City Council District 6

• Tommy Hough

• Kent Lee

• Aleena Jun Nawabi

• Louis Rodolico

San Diego County Board of Supervisors District 5

• Tiffany Boyd-Hodgson

San Diego Unified School Board District B

• Shana Hazan

• Godwin Higa

San Diego Unified School Board District C

• Lily Higman

• Cody Petterson

In addition, we will attempt to endorse in all the San Diego County Congressional seats, which will include two (2) Friendly Incumbent Endorsement considerations and three (3) contested races. Reminder we have updated the Congressional district numbers based on the release of the final redistricting maps on December 20, 2021.

CA 49

• Mike Levin – Friendly Incumbent

CA 52

• Juan Vargas– Friendly Incumbent

CA 48

• Mari Barosay

• Stephen Houlahan

CA 50

• Scott Peters

• Adam Schindler

  • Kylie Taitano

CA 51

• Barrett Holman Leak

• Sara Jacobs

On Monday, January 17 at our regular monthly meeting we will attempt to endorse in the following race:

  • San Diego City Council District 2:

    • Jennifer Campbell

    • Joel Day

    • Mandy Havlik

    • Lori Saldana

Please note that the list of candidates has been updated since our December 26, announcement. Loxie Gant no longer lives in the district post redistricting and has confirmed she does not intend to run. Two additional candidates have announced that they plan to run for the District 2 seat and so have been added to our list.

In all races where there are more than two candidates running, we will use our Ranked Choice voting process to determine if any candidate meets the 60% vote threshold required to receive the Club’s endorsement. “No Endorsement” will always be an option and the number of votes for No Endorsement will be included when determining the Club’s position on this race.

If you are a member in good standing, but not eligible to vote, and would like to review the candidate questionnaires, please contact me and I will provide a link for you to access. Please do not share outside the club.

We will briefly review the Ranked Choice Process at the meeting.

Please contact me if you have further questions.

Regards,

Yvonne Elkin (she, her, hers)

DWCSD Endorsement Committee

858-752-4368

As always, if any member has questions or concerns, please feel free to call me. I look forward to 'seeing you' on Monday.

LaWana Richmond, President

(619) 796-3479

The purpose of the Democratic Woman’s Club of San Diego County is to amplify women's issues through education and advocacy and to foster active interest in the Democratic Party, supporting the party platforms, contributing to party leadership and responsibility, providing a constructive role for the volunteer in Democratic politics, and developing an activist base.

We demand equality of opportunity, a level playing field, and fair and equal treatment for all.We are dismantling the patriarchy.We meet the third Monday of every month; please see the Events section of our website for more details. Our meetings are now held on Zoom, and you can register here.Questions? Email [email protected].

Officers of the ClubDr. LaWana Richmond, PresidentLori Saldaña, External Vice PresidentSarah Davis, Internal Vice President Cathie Hyatt, SecretaryRosamond Blevins, Treasurer, Director of MembershipNadia Kean-Ayub, Director of Communications