Questionnaire Response

District Leader

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Office/District you are running for:

What makes you different (100 words max)?

Why do you want to represent your neighbors and fellow Brooklynites in the county and state Democratic parties (100 words max)?

What difference will you make for your community (100 words max)?

What is your vision for a more open and transparent county party organization (100 words max)?

How can a District Leader/State Committee Member best support the LGBTQ community (100 words max)?

How will you commit to actively working to provide more power and autonomy to the members of the County Committee (100 words max)?

How will you oppose efforts to transfer county committee powers to the executive committee (district leaders) (100 words max)? 

What recommendations would you make to reform the Board of Elections (100 words max)?

Do you support reverting the power to “backfill” open county committee seats back to county committee members? (Y/N)

Do you commit to developing and participating in community engagement in advance of State Supreme Court nominations by the Executive Committee (eg, public candidate screening forums, community outreach)? (Y/N)

Will you commit to reasonable attendance at all/most Executive Committee meetings (absent a legitimate reason for not being able to attend, eg, health, child care, travel)? (Y/N)

Will you commit to reforming rules to ensure that public notice of executive committee and county committee meetings is provided as far in advance as possible (eg, further than 1-2 weeks)? (Y/N)?  How much time do you think is reasonable?

Will you commit to rules reform limiting the use of proxy voting by district leaders? (Y/N)

If endorsed, do you commit to using LID’s full logo (will be provided) and full name on all materials and other places where you list endorsees (with the exception of lists of specific organizations (unions, etc) or elected officials)? (Y/N)

Do you commit to using inclusive and gender-neutral language in press releases and other announcements (e.g., “the people of the..” instead of “the men and women of the…”)(Y/N)