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Animal Welfare
With the increasing focus of the City Council and New York State Legislature on Animal Welfare issues, our committee was formed to propose and monitor pending legislation, as well as comment on existing legislation.
Linda Jacobson, Chair
The purpose of the Animal Welfare Committee is to report to the VID Membership issues and legislation affecting all animals in the City and State of New York, and not excluding the Federal Government.
Working with our elected officials it is also our purpose, with the approval of the VID Membership, to initiate legislation that we feel would improve the health and welfare of all animals.
Are you interested in joining this Committee? Have a question? Send your message HERE.
Campaign Committee
It is the job of the VID Campaign Committee to elect public and party officials who exemplify our ideals and are committed to implementing them.
Tony Hoffmann, Chair
The Campaign Committee meets regularly to plan campaigns, organize candidate forums, and run campaigns to elect our endorsed candidates.
Among the campaign activities we do are:
- Voter Registration Drives
- Petitioning
- Phone Banking
- Canvassing
- Texting
- Mailings
- Dear Neighbor Letters
- Election Day Operations.
The campaign committee also gets involved every four years in the presidential
election. We help organize on a weekly basis sending bus loads of volunteers to
neighboring states to canvass for the Democratic nominee.
Are you interested in joining this Committee? Have a question? Send your message HERE.
Environmental
The goal of the Environmental Committee is to propose to the Executive Committee and the membership progressive policies related to environmental issues. An environmentally clean and safe world is a human right. By supporting the club’s legislative efforts, we hope to make our actions more productive and successful.
Nat Johnson, Chair
A few of our social and legislative priorities include:
- Expanding sanitation services like increasing composting and trash collection in New York City,
- Support and promotion of Local Law 97
- Passing legislation in the State and City to require restaurants to exclude and reduce the amounts of plastics entering our environment,
- Promotion of legislation like the “Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act,”
- Eliminating all fossil fuel subsidies,
- Banning new fossil fuel power plants and infrastructure,
- Promote in New York State and City renewable energy infrastructure such as heat pumps, solar and wind power.
- Banning use of fracking by-products such as highway de-icing agents and the use of State subsidized power for cryptocurrency mining,
- Expanding the availability and number of EV recharging stations, and switching NYC-owned vehicles to become fully electric,
- Requiring manufacturers to implement strategies to promote recycling of their products, “Extended Producer Responsibility,”
- Promotion of climate-friendly farming “regenerative agriculture policies,”
- Keeping chemical contaminants and cancer-causing agents out of our water supplies,
- Actively support NYS’s environmental goals.
Committee Members
Anne Heaney, Elizabeth Mann, Lois Rakoff, Freda Bradlow, Onya Brinson and several former club members
If you would like to join the VID Environment Committee or would like more information, send us an email: HERE.
Out of District
The VID Out of District Committee focuses on assisting Democratic Campaigns to win in districts out of the Village Independent Democrats immediate district.
Melissa Carty, Chair
We work to ensure that Democrats win in races at all levels from local to federal races. We leverage our expertise in phone banking, writing postcards, texting and canvassing in person where possible to assist Democratic campaigns in their election bids.
We most recently were involved in the following winning campaigns: Pat Ryan’s Congressional race in NY-18, Josh Shapiro for Governor of PA, John Fetterman for Senate in PA, Susan Wild’s Congressional Race in PA-7 and Matt Cartwright’s Congressional race in PA-8.
Are you interested in joining this Committee? Have a question? Send your message HERE.