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September 06th, 2024

9/6/2024

September 06th, 2024

9/6/2024

Linn Dems open campaign office

Democratic Congressional candidate Janelle Bynum gathers with supporters during the Linn County Democrats Campaign Office grand opening Aug. 18.

Linn Dems Chair Jerred Taylor helps Woodrow Azorr, 3, with a game Aug. 17.

We had big turnouts Aug. 17 and 18 for the grand opening of our great new Linn County Democrats Campaign Office at 1107 Ninth Ave. S.E. in Albany.
State Rep. Janelle Bynum, 5th District Congressional candidate, gave supporters a pep talk during her office visit Sunday afternoon, noting the importance of knocking on doors. Bynum said her campaign ranks among the top House campaigns nationwide on a number of metrics, including fundraising.
The Linn Dems office is open Monday Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, in two 2 1/2-hour shifts — 1 to 3:30 p.m. and 3:30 to 6 p.m. We're still looking for volunteers to staff shifts up until Nov. 5. To sign up for a shift, click the link below.
Thanks to everyone who had a part in arranging for and setting up the office, with special thanks to Circe Verba, our office manager and chair of the Linn Dems Communications Committee, and Jackie Montague, Linn Dems treasurer and Albany City Councilor

Linn County Democrats Brenda Sterner, Edie Koenig and Jackie Montague chat during the campaign office grand opening Aug. 17.

Albany Mayor Alex Johnson and CD5 candidate Janelle Bynum at the grand opening Aug. 18.

The Crazed Weasels — Judy Arter and Loren Ford — sing 'Keep on the Harris Side of Life' at the grand opening Aug. 17.

Linn Dems Ambassador Nichole Case, left, talks with Stacey Bartholomew at the grand opening Aug. 17.

August 24th, 2024

8/24/2024

Democratic National Convention Day 4
In acceptance speech,
Harris offers 'a chance
to chart a new way forward'

• Harris gives Americans the chance to make history (Aug. 23, CNN)
• Harris speech helps a group of undecided Pennsylvania make up their minds (Aug. 23, CNN)
• In pictures: The 2024 Democratic National Convention (Aug. 23, CNN)
• Democratic National Convention Day 1
• Democratic National Convention Day 2
• Democratic National Convention Day 3

August 22nd, 2024

8/22/2024

Democratic National Convention Day 3

Walz's 'pep talk' fires up crowd

• Highlights from Night 3 at the DNC (Aug. 21, CNN)
• Video — 'Coach Walz' accepts VP nomination in DNC speech (Aug. 21, USA Today)
• 5 things to know about Tim Walz (Aug. 21, NPR)
• Video — Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg speaks at DNC (Aug. 21, PBS NewsHour)
• Video — Oprah: 'Choose common sense over nonsense' (Aug; 21, WFAA YouTube)
• Video — Former President Bill Clinton speaks at DNC (Aug. 21, CNN)
• Who's speaking and what to expect (Axios)
• Democratic National Convention Day 1
• Democratic National Convention Day 2

August 21st, 2024

8/21/2024

Democratic National Convention Day 2
Obamas call on voters
to 'do something' to get
Harris and Walz elected

• Highlights from the second night of the convention (Aug. 20, CNN)
• Michelle Obama's fiery, eloquent speech was a call to action (Aug. 20, MSNBC)
•.Emhoff uses convention speech to show personal side of Harris: "Her empathy is her strength' (Aug. 20, CNN)
• Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham describes what Trump is like when cameras are off (Aug. 20, CNN)
• Who's speaking and what to expect (Aug. 20, Axios)
• Democratic National Convention Day 1

Convention watch party set for Night 3
A convention watch party is scheduled for
5 to 7 p.m. today (Wednesday) during Drinking Liberally at Ciddicci's Pizza Southside, 859 Belmont Ave S.W., Albany.

August 20th, 2024

8/20/2024

Democratic National Convention Day 1

'We love Joe!'

• Takeaways from the first night of the convention as Biden passes the torch to Harris (Aug. 20, CNN)
• Hillary Clinton casts Harris in the lineage of female political firsts (Aug. 19, CNN)
• Raphael Warnack calls Trump a 'plague on the American conscience'(Aug. 19, ABC)
• Democrats are united and focused (Aug. 20, MSNBC)

Convention watch party set
A convention watch party is scheduled for
5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday during Drinking Liberally at Ciddicci's Pizza Southside, 859 Belmont Ave S.W., Albany.

August 19th, 2024

8/19/2024

Where's Lori?

The question was still unanswered during
a caravan that included
an Albany stop

Since Republican Lori Chavez-DeRemer took office as Congressional District 5 representative in 2023, she has not held a single in-person and unscripted Town Hall.

Constituents, including a number of Linn County Democrats, who hope to unseat her in the Nov. 5 election, held a "Looking for Lori" caravan that started Saturday morning in Bend and included a late afternoon stop at the Linn County Courthouse.
Twenty-eight people held a rally there with signs and a cutout of Chavez-DeRemer peeking

Twenty-eight people held a rally there with signs and a cutout of Chavez-DeRemer peeking from behind the courthouse flagpole. The popular cutout was the one of Kamala Harris that Nancy Greenman and Susan Leonard posed with above. The caravan will end today in Oregon City, where Chavez-DeRemer's Democratic opponent, Janelle Bynum, will speak.

August 08th, 2024

8/8/2024

VP nominee Tim Walz
'We're not going back'

• Walz tears into GOP ticket at raucous Philadelphia rally with Harris (Aug. 6, Rolling Stone)
• Harris picks Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate (Aug. 6, Time)
• Harris' chemistry with Walz was important to VP decision, source says. (Aug. 6, CNN)
• Walz, once a high school football coach, has evolved into something of a progressive populist folk hero (Aug. 6, CNN)
• Video: Hear Walz explain why he started calling Trump 'weird' (Aug. 6, CNN)
• In pictures: Tim Walz (Aug. 6, CNN)

July 27th, 2024

7/27/2024

'Nothing can come in the way of saving our democracy.
That includes personal ambition.
The great thing about America is here,
kings and dictators do not rule.
The people do.'
— President Joe Biden

Biden's speech to the nation

• Biden's speech: Warnings about Trump, a hefty.to-do list, and a powerful handoff (July 24, AP)
• Biden reflects on presidency and explains decision to 'pass the torch' (July 24, Time)
• Transcript: Biden's speech explaining why he withdrew from the 2024 presidential race (July 24, ABC News)
• How Kamala Harris' warp speed campaign launch has changed the 2024 race. (July 26, AP)
• Poll: Harris opens up early lead with young voters (July 25, Axios)
• ‘We Are Not Playing Around’: Harris Electrifies Room at Historically Black sorority's conference (July 24, Time)

July 25th, 2024

7/25/2024

Momentum builds for Dems

• Harris makes first trip to battleground Wisconsin since launching presidential campaign (July 23, CNN)
• Harris will address a historically black Sorority as her campaign hopes to win women of color (July 24, AP)
• The Harris VP contenders you should pay attention to (July 23, MSNBC)
• Biden decides not to seek reelection, endorses Harris (includes comments from Linn Dems Chair Jerred Taylor), July 21
• The Biden-Harris record