I will be running for a Kings County Democratic Committee seat this year...

[brooklynite]

Petitioning starts next week.

[Drum]

1. Good luck! 🍀

[Walleye]

2. Good luck, I know you will do a good job

[bluestarone]

3. Ah, TY for all you for us Democrats!!!

Hope all goes smooth for you there!!! Thanks again.

[mountain grammy]

4. Good for you and good luck

I’d sign that petition in a heartbeat if I lived there.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Best of luck to you.

[Beastly Boy]

6. Where can I sign the petition?

[brooklynite]

8. Not clear if you have to be in Brooklyn or in AD 52.

[WarGamer]

7. K&R

[Alliepoo]

9. That's wonderful!

Wishing you the best of luck. You are going to do a great job!

[emulatorloo]

10. Good luck, fingers and toes crossed. I know you will do a great job.

[spanone]

11. K&R

[GuppyGal]

12. Let me know if Queens can sign !! LOL nt

[SheilaAnn]

13. Good luck to you and please keep us updated on how the campaign is going. n/t

[BadgerMom]

14. Congratulations and best of luck.

Keep us in the loop!

[Mossfern]

15. How many signatures do you need?

I live in a rather small town, so I got on the ballot just by getting my friends and neighbors to sign.
I wish you the greatest of luck in your campaign, and the least amount of frustration after you are elected.

[niyad]

16. All extremeties crossed for you!

[Mme. Defarge]

17. Bonne chance!

[reACTIONary]

18. Great! Do good and make us all proud of you!

[LuvLoogie]

19. Good Luck!

Blue Wave!

[ancianita]

20. All the best! You go!! You've got a great party with a track record to back you up.

[TeamProg]

21. I sincerely hope that you get it! nt

[diva77]

22. What's your platform?

[live love laugh]

44. Good question.

[diva77]

57. Oh well, I guess he doesn't want to tell us.

[The Magistrate]

23. Break A Leg, Sir!

[DinahMoeHum]

24. "committee seat" aka district leader?. . .

. . .welcome to the club (in advance)

I get my petition packet next week too.

[moniss]

25. Bless you and if I lived there you

would have my vote. Best of luck to you.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

26. Great! Guess you mean NY. Good luck!!!

[lapucelle]

27. Good luck. I'm not sure how it works in Brooklyn, but when I ran in Nassau county,

it was pretty much pro forma once the signatures were collected.

[FakeNoose]

28. My son and DIL are registered Democrats in NYC

... but they're not in your County. They live on the Lower East Side, within sight of the Williamsburg Bridge (about 2 blocks from the FDR). I don't know if that helps, but I could give them your info and they'd be happy to sign, I'm sure.

Best of luck to you!

[Danmel]

29. I'm a local Democratic committee person

On Long Island.

[Orrex]

30. We have disagreed many times, but...

I have no doubt whatsoever that you will be a passionate and tireless committee member, to the benefit of all in the county.

I wish you the very best of luck, and if I lived there you would certainly have my vote!

[edhopper]

31. Good luck

Know you will work hard for us.

[SocialDemocrat61]

32. You're running against Aaron Ouyang?

Or is he leaving?

[brooklynite]

33. No, she's District Leader.

County Committee is a different layer

[brooklynite]

37. New Kings Democrats is trying to change that...

...by filling the seats with reform-oriented participants.

[SocialDemocrat61]

38. It's still a nothing position

And doubtful there will be any significant changes. That system has been in place for decades. Even the state committee people don't have much power.

[lapucelle]

39. I don't know how things were run in your area or how long ago your 20s were, but

no one asked me to sign a proxy, my county committee holds regular meetings, and we are instrumental in getting Democrats on the ballot, organizing phone banks and canvassing events for local, state, and national candidates, and then getting out the vote for their elections.

My question to anyone sneering at folks who have earned what is essentially a pretty humble seat at a not very grand table is

"What are you doing to get Democrats elected"?

[SocialDemocrat61]

40. That's great

But I know how things run in NYC. County committee is a nothing position here. There are over 4000 county committee people in Brooklyn alone. It's an unpaid volunteer position with no responsibilities or power. They would fill those positions with homeless if they could get away with it.

And I have no doubt that in smaller, less populous countries that county committees do more. But that's not how things are in NYC.

[lapucelle]

41. "They would fill those positions with homeless if they could get away with it."

What are you talking about and who is the corrupt "they" that you keep referring to? Who is the "they" who you accuse of trying to get away with stuff?

[SocialDemocrat61]

45. They are the District leaders and

County Chair. And it's not because they are corrupt, but because County committee is a very minor position in NYC and it's often a pain in the ass to recruit people.

[lapucelle]

46. Why did you post that "the first thing they have you to do is sign a voting proxy"?

I was never asked to sign a voting proxy.

Which borough were you in?

[SocialDemocrat61]

47. Brooklyn or Kings county

And there are over 4000 county committee people here. Having meetings and votes is really difficult. The one meeting they had when I was on county committee was in a small sports arena and had us all in the stands. It wound up being so chaotic nothing got done. It’s easier to have all the county committee people give a vote proxy and let the district leader vote them as a bloc.

[edhopper]

42. Do we really want to be

disparaging of someone who wants to get involved at the Grass Roots level?

[SocialDemocrat61]

43. No

But to act like they are running for some important position is just not the truth. Nothing I said is false. Just a dose of reality.

[brooklynite]

50. I wasn't aware that I or anyone else said it was an "important position".

It wasn't an "important position" when I was Ward Committeeman in Philadelphia in my college days. Should I have left the seat open?

[bluestarone]

52. Shame on your behavior

[senseandsensibility]

51. That was my first thought

[ecstatic]

34. Cool.

I applaud your participation in our civic process.

[BlueSpot]

35. Best wishes

[LoisB]

48. Good Luck. nt

[bdamomma]

49. I wish

all the best luck. Great thing to do.

[Ninga]

53. The best of luck! Wishing you success!

[BootinUp]

54. Good luck to you. I am sure

You would do a good job.

[Oopsie Daisy]

55. Oh, how nice. Good luck.

[Evolve Dammit]

56. Nice! Best wishes

[Polybius]

58. I was elected to a local County Committee when I was in my mid 20's

It was a sham election, as I kissed a lot of Party butt at the time. Sadly, I didn't keep up with it and got out of politics for a bit. This was around the time Bush was elected President. In any case, good luck!

[LeftInTX]

59. I assume this is the same as a Precinct Chair. I'm one in Texas.

Only the party chair is required to have a petition here. We simply file and we're on the primary ballot. I got 80% of the vote when I first ran. All I did was make a few calls and handed out a few cards at the polls etc. The incumbent was totally awol to voters.

The position is what you make of it. Some people just join to hang out and stir up stuff at the County Executive Committee meetings. Others are very committed. I'm always trying to turn my precinct blue. I'm also in a bunch of committees etc.

Sounds like you have 4,000 precincts? Wow, Bexar County has 761, and about 25% are known as zero precincts. (Interstate access roads, vacant city lots etc) I have over 3,000 registered voters in my precinct. However, the difference between our area and NYC is homes are much more spread out, so my legs hurt alot during campaign seasons. But it's fun!

You'll do great!