Ohio's Election Successes
By Lauren B. Goode, DNC National Committeewoman (OH)
One year after the Ohio Young Democrats launched its successful Run 2005 program to energize more young people about running for office, several Young Democrats earned election to the Ohio General Assembly this year.
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NY Young Dems Caucus of Color Holiday Party
From the YDA Minority Caucus Listserv
The NY Young Dems Caucus of Color gathered to celebrate the holidays with partner groups ranging from the Council of Urban Professionals to the Dominican Women’s Network to DL21C including featured guest, Hon. Charlie Rangel.
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Find a Job
YDA provides a ton of resources for members and chapters. One of these is the contributions of our members to the JobsThatAreLeft and InternshipsThatAreLeft listservs. You can subscribe to these by sending mail to jobsthatareleft-subscribe@yahoogroups.com and internshipsthatareleft-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. Some state chapters also run listservs. Two of the more active are MDF (mdf-jobs-subscribe@yahoogroups.com) and YDWA (ydwa-jobs-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.) if your company or organization is hiring, please consider posting your job opportunity to these lists.
In New Congress, Seniority Takes Back Seat to Spirit
Forwarded by Tom Manatos (MD)
The core of the group -- Reps. Kendrick Meek and Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida and Timothy J. Ryan of Ohio -- began talking at 10 or 11 p.m. Never mind that the House chamber was essentially empty at that hour. C-SPAN was recording the sessions, and insomniacs around the country got to know the three young Democrats.
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Spread the Word
Help spread the word about successes and mobilization of young people during this past cycle. You can find some talking points at: http://www.yda.org/actions/103/tell-the-youth-vote-story. Also, as young people we are uniquely positioned to leverage the power of social software to spread our message. On the morning of election day, YDA started a campaign to encourage using a YDA logo as your profile pic on social networking services: http://www.yda.org/actions/98/replace-your-myspace-and-facebook-pic-with-this-one. If you haven’t changed your profile pic and/or added YDA as a Friend on MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, or Spaces, now is a great time to do so.