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Trask, Bennett, Lopes Win Election

 Every candidate on our Slate of Candidates was elected and every DanversDem running for Town Meeting Member won their race. The voters have responded to our message of fairness, inclusivity and experience in town government.

Gardner Trask and Dan Bennett were victorious in the field of seven Select Board candidates.  Gardner topped the ticket with 1,561 votes, earning the top spot in every single precinct.  He will ably succeed our own DanversDem David Mills who has served the town with dignity, competence and honor for many years.  Dan Bennett secured the second spot with 1,378 votes also ranking second in every precinct.  Kevin Berich was third with 1,092 votes and Sandy Franeschini fourth with 892 votes.

Gabe Lopes won decisively defeating Maxwell Rudin for School Committee by a wide margin; 2,074 to 740 votes.

Congratulations to DanversDem Julie Curtis, who was the top vote getter for Library Trustee with 1,956 votes.  Julie was elected alongside Noah Levitt and Kevin Lee.

Michael Swindell was re-elected unopposed for Housing Authority.

DanversDems will be well represented in the next Town Meeting with all six of our candidates elected.  We are especially excited for our four first time Town Meeting Members!

Precinct 1:  Lou George (re-elected) & Jillian Durand (first time member)
Precinct 2: Phil Bolduc (first time member)
Precinct 3: Charlotte Jordan (first time member)
Precinct 5: Liz Brennan (first time member)
Precinct 8: Lou Bernazzani – re-elected

We are deeply grateful to all the candidates who stepped up to run and for your commitment to serve our town.  A special thank you to all the DanversDems who worked so hard in this election.

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📢Call to Action! Route One Stand-out – May 18 (Sunday)

An event is being put together for a stand-out along route one from Topsfield to Newburyport. The goal is to get enough people on both sides along the road to create a chain of solidarity of people fighting for our freedoms.

This is a great opportunity for our neighboring communities to come together for this fight. Although we are separated by zip codes, we are all fighting the same fight and need to come together – power in numbers. I also remind people that courage is contagious and we are seeing that in the weekly protests in our cities and towns where a growing number of powerful people are out there telling others that the actions of this current administration are not okay.

The Route One Stand-out is now officially on Mobilize to sign-up: https://www.mobilize.us/massdems/event/782099/

Here is the tentative list of locations where they want to position the protesters: My understanding that these are safe locations near parking.

  • Topsfield
    • Maple Street
    • Central Street
    • Route 97
    • Dover Hill Road
    • DPW
    • Haverhill Street
    • Putnam Veterinarian
    • Pediatric Associates
    • Camp Meeting Road/ North Street
    • Topsfield Veterinarian
    • 448 Boston Road
    • Wildes Road
    • Golf course
  • Ipswich
    • East Street/ West Street
    • Old Right Road
    • Micro and Hickory
    • Alderson Driver
    • Cape Ann Cannabis sign
    • Linebrook Road?
    • Majestic Dragon
    • 85 Turnpike Road
  • Rowley
    • Dog Stop
    • Land between Olde Towne IceCream and Brookline Bank
    • Route 133
    • Empty building across from Market Basket
    • Blue Boat
    • Maintenance Facility
    • Peabody Essex Museum
    • Ox Pasture
    • Bio Lab
    • Ipswich Bay Glass
    • Wethersfield Street
    • Central Street/ Glen Street
  • Newbury – Newburyport
    • Dirt turn off/ turn around at town line by marsh
    • Governors
    • Lab on north side
    • Parker River Bridge- Road to conservation just before
    • Possibly marsh and hay fields by Large Farm – will check if we can park there
    • Boston Road
    • Water Dog Grooming
    • Middle Road/ Hanover Street
    • Rotary in Newburyport

Hope to see you there.

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Meeting – May 22

Next meeting will be on Thursday, May 22 at 7:00 PM at the Danvers Library.

The meeting room has been changed to the Classroom Conference Room. This conference can be accessed by entering through the same door as for the Gordon Room and going through the children’s room or from the main entrance and taking the elevator downstairs.

The meeting will be hybrid. Please use the Contact Us page to request the Zoom Link.

There will be a hard stop of the meeting @ 8:45 in fairness to the library staff.  I apologize in advance if I cut you off mid-discussion.

Maria and I will be at the library at 6:30 if anyone wants to come by early and chat before the meeting. There will be light refreshments.

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

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Write Postcards for Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Election – March 18

DanversDems invites you to join a postcard party on Tuesday March 18th at 6 pm at the Danvers Peabody Institute Library Classroom in support of the Wisconsin Supreme Court Judicial Election.

Swing Left NorthShore/Cape Ann is sponsoring this project to ensure that Wisconsin keeps its liberal majority by electing Judge Susan Crawford on April 1, 2025.  Ms. Crawford has a tough fight against Musk-supported Brad Schimel, past R Gov. Scott Walker’s AG who implemented Walker’s anti-democratic, anti-union, anti-choice agenda.

We have 100 postcards to complete.  This project will not require a huge time commitment as each card requires two simple sentences and a greeting but we’d love to see you and have the opportunity to feel like we are doing something!  Can’t make it?  Do NOT WORRY there will be MORE postcarding opportunities!

Please email your RSVP to Liz Brennan at liz.conrad98@gmail.com

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Meeting – February 27

Next meeting will be on Thursday, February 27 at 7:00 PM at the Danvers Library.

Please be aware that the meeting room has been changed to the Classroom Conference Room. This conference can be accessed by entering through the same door as for the Gordon Room and going through the children’s room or from the main entrance and taking the elevator downstairs.

Just a quick reminder that our next meeting will be held in the Class Room conference room on the 27th.

Our last meeting took place on January 8th, and as a refresher, you can review the minutes here: January Meeting Minutes.

We are pleased to welcome Diann Slavit as our guest speaker. Diann is an immigration attorney who represents immigrants and refugees seeking asylum. She also served as a delegate at the 2024 Democrat Convention and will bring valuable insights to our discussion.

I am currently finalizing the meeting agenda. A lot has happened since our last gathering, so if you have suggestions for discussion topics or would like to be included on the agenda as a speaker, please reach out to me at lou@danversdemocrats.org or 978-304-2714.

As always, this will be a hybrid meeting, and the agenda and Zoom link will be shared before the meeting.

Maria and I plan to be at the library at 6:30 if anyone wants to come by early and chat before the meeting. There will be light refreshments.Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Thanks everyone.lou@danversdemocrats.org

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