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June 23rd from Barry Rafkind, Somerville-Medford UJP member:

Hi everyone,

Great news! PDS (Progressive Democrats of Somerville) voted unanimously to support this campaign at its meeting last night!

With Abby's encouragement, I presented this campaign which, was placed on the agenda. I was given about 10 minutes to talk and answer questions. I asked everyone to call their ward and at-large aldermen in advance of a resolution we will be presenting to them. The previous agenda item was a recap of the State Dem Convention which passed a resolution in support, so that definitely helped to persuade PDS. I passed out a number of flyers and have 9 left over.

When we figure out when we'll ask the BOA (Board of Algerman) to vote on this, we can let PDS know to try to bring people out in support. Has this been decided yet?

Thanks again to Abby for her leadership on this.

Barry