Hello Virginians

Did you vote today?

I just voted at Annandale area. Few minutes drive and few minutes to vote. Just three choices to mark one of them on a white paper.

VA for Sanders !

We have UNDER 4,000 signatures statewide, and we need 10,000 to guarantee Bernie is on the ballot. And we have 29 DAYS to get them.

This is SO crucial -- if we don't get those signatures, Bernie won't be on the ballot in Virginia. Please, please read the training sheet below, print some petition sheets, and go get signatures TODAY! https://tinyurl.com/y4tvg948

The VCU Students for Bernie is hosting a caravan this Tuesday, March 1. We will be meeting in the Compass Plaza at VCU starting at 9 a.m., and we will be carpooling voters to their polling locations until 6:30 p.m.

We currently have a handful of drivers and we were looking to see if anyone can spare an hour or two to help us drive students to the polls. If you can please DM me or email [email protected].

Thanks in advance!

A friend has been looking at the numbers -- 66% of Harrisonburg went for Bernie, compared to a statewide rate of 35%. He won all eight city precincts, so you can't write it off as the "student votes."

Our turnout was 1.5 times that of the 2008 primary, up about 58% while population is up about 15%. I attribute at least a portion of this success to the efforts of volunteers in Harrisonburg (I was one of them). We phone-banked, organized events, and canvassed all the turfs the Charlottesville office would cut for us. There was no official Bernie office in town, we just passed the hat and rented office space, spent countless hours begging for more volunteers to come in, etc.

It's not easy, but if more volunteer groups in more states that have yet to vote can replicate the volunteer operation we had, I believe Bernie can win this.

I probably should have made a post earlier. This coming Tuesday is the election for Virginia legislature and senate, as well as many local positions. These are hugely important for the direction our state could be heading, especially as one so close to the U.S. capitol and with so many of those special interests leaking over into our state.

Polls are open from 6am to 7pm. Make sure you get out there and vote. Low voter turnout in these off years means your vote is even more important. I don't know about your specific areas, but I know that in Alexandria, where I live, there are a number of important races. Please, make sure you vote on Tuesday, and encourage others to vote too.

If you've signed up to volunteer or have donated, you've probably already gotten e-mails asking you to sign up for a shift. GOTV is easy. Whether you're phone-banking or canvassing you'll mostly just be talking with people who already like Bernie. We just need to make sure that they get to the polls to support him on Tuesday.

Please sign up for a shift. (Several if you're able). Make sure you've also talked with your family and friends in the state that like Bernie. Make sure they're planning to vote, and that they know that if they won't be able to make it to the polls on Tuesday, they can still go in person to vote absentee through Saturday.

Hi, Bernie supporters! If you live in Virginia, you can help us get Bernie on the democratic primary ballot!! In Va, every candidate for federal office has to submit 5,000 signatures from registered Virginia voters -- and you can help collect them! Join the 10 Days to 10k petition drive at http://virginiansforbernie.com/index.php/10daysto10k/

For Virginia - a new PAC (as of today!) has been formed specifically to run Progressive Candidates in local elections throughout Virginia.

https://forvirginia.org/

It's made up of grassroots Sanders supporters throughout Virginia. The PAC is a state PAC only, which means it cannot be used towards presidential, senate or congressional elections - but it CAN be used for Governor, state delegates, state senate, local city council, local school boards, etc.

So you can support it as a Bernie or Bust and also if you align as a Democrat, Green, or Working Families Party.

Please throw a little support our way through ActBlue- for now, it's to support the software, and to get some swag for the Virginia statewide Caucuses - once we're organized, we will start pinpointing local leaders who need a little monetary boost.

The Tea Party has been playing chess while we're messing around with checkers. Let's start getting local government working for the people again. https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/forvirginia?refcode=FB&amount=5.00

http://voteforbernie.org/#va