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An event to meet a fabulous foursome of areas top woman leaders.

Senator Joan Lovely

State Representative Sally Kerans

Governors Council Member & Candidate for South Register of Deeds Eileen Duff

Candidate for Governor’s Council Eunice Ziegler

Introduction by Lieutenant Governor, Kim Driscoll

Event is at home of John Archer at 10 North St., Danvers. Event starts at 4:00 PM

Chairs for the event are Julie Curtis and John Archer

Donations toward the successful campaigns of these four women would be greatly appreciated.

Julie Curtis award the DanversDems Scholarship to Gabrielle Griffin-Fetch at DHS Scholarship Night on June 6.

The Kerans Committee will be holding an Almost Summer Reception at the Danversport Yacht Club on Thursday, June 13 from 6:00 – 9:00 PM.

The May meeting was held on Monday, May 6 at the library in the Gordon Room.. It was the first meeting for new co-chair Lou Bernazzani. The meeting was a hybrid meeting.  

During the meeting, we presented events that DanversDems members participated in during the month followed by a discussion of the Town Election to be the next day.

Dee Djoko addressed the members concerning the activity in his campaign, thanking the members that have been volunteering for him and what he will do if elected.

A discussion of the results of the DDTC Member Survey were presented and discussed.

For anyone unable to join the meeting, the presentation slides can be viewed here: slides

Thanks everyone. Next meeting will be on Monday, June 24.

Anyone or group (members or non-members) wishing to speak to the members , please contact us using the Contact Us page.

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Election Information

The Town Election is coming up. There are elections for Select Board, School Committee, Library Trustee and Town Meeting Members for all 8 precincts. There are important issues before the town and there are clear differences between candidates. There are 4 people vying for 2 Select Board positions. Truthfully, Town Meeting member elections have rarely in the past had more people seeking election than the 6 open positions but this year almost all have more than 6 and some have 9. Please take a look at the candidates and how they represent the Democrat values.

Our own Marilyn Haze l and Phil Bolduc are running for Town Meeting Member. Marilyn is running for re-election in Precinct 6 and Phil Bolduc is a first time candidate for Precinct 2.

Recent attendees of our DDTC meetings, Dee Djoko and Michael Shannon are first time candidates. Dee is running for Select Board. Michael is running for both School Committee and Library Trustee.

Links to more information and sample ballots are below.

Annual Town Election 
Tuesday, May 7, 2024 
Annual Town Election Key Dates: Annual Town Election Key Dates 05-07-24

Ballot layout for: May 7, 2024 Annual Town Election candidate placement order

Annual Town Election – May 7, 2024 – Sample Ballots

Register to vote by 5pm on April 27, 2024

Vote by Mail has been approved for the 2024 Annual Town Election

Vote by mail application deadline: April 30, 2024

Early Voting Schedule

Saturday, April 27, 2024: 10am – 4pm
In Person Early Voting will take place at Town Hall, 1 Sylvan St., Danvers MA 09123

The DanversDems participated in the Danvers Town Wide Clean Up event on a soggy, wet Saturday morning to help celebrate Earth Day! We cleaned up the area around the Senior Center.

Thanks to Sally Kerans, Julie Curtis, Liz Brennan, Vinny Malgeri and Maria Bernazzani. I also thank Liz’s friends Chris, Nancy and Janet for joining us on such a rainy morning. More hands certainly helped!

Danvers Community Access Television will host a candidates forum for Select Board candidates Michael Bean, Dutrochet Djoko, Matthew Duggan, and Gardner Trask at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 17, to answer questions about their views on local issues and what they hope to achieve in Danvers if elected.

The forum will be held in-person at the DCAT studio for a maximum of one hour if the candidates use all of their allotted time to answer questions. Candidates will each be given two minutes at the beginning and end of the forum to give opening and closing statements.

There will be nine questions asked by The Salem News, which each candidate will be given 90 seconds to respond to. A member of the DCAT Board of Directors, John Call, will be moderating.

The forum will be broadcast live on youtube.com/danverscommunityaccesstelevision, and a full cable broadcast schedule can be found at danverstv.org.

DDTC Meeting to elect committee officers was on Monday April 8 @ 7:00 PM in the Gordon Room at the Library.

After 25 years as Chair for the DanversDems, Marilyn Hazel has decided to take a different role and transition to new leadership. Marilyn has worked tirelessly and with great passion for women’s rights, voting rights, healthcare and all democratic values. Marilyn received a vigorous applause from the well attended meeting.

The following slate of officers were nominated and approved by the committee as required by statute every 4 years..

Co-chairs: Lou Bernazzani and Marilyn Hazel

Vice-chair: Tom Meager

Treasurer: Kasey Desmond

Secretary: Julie Curtis

Affirmative Action Outreach: Liz Brennan

Due to the requirement that there must be both a male and female in executive positions, we introducing co-chairs as is allowed but not required in our charter.

Newcomers to the leadership team are Lou Bernazzani as co-chair and Liz Brennan as Affirmative Action Outreach joining Tom, Kacey and Julie. We think this team is a wonderful mix of people with experience and some new energy.  It will bring help in the area of technologically advancing our out-reach. We will have a new look and approach  to advance our commitment to our democratic values.

We had three speakers address the committee:

Micheal Shannon, candidate for School Committee

Joe Gentleman, candidate for Registry of Deeds

Dutrochet “Dee” Djoko: candidate for Select Board

There was a lively discussion on local issues.

As a result of the discussion, we were not able to specifically address the two topics scheduled for this meeting.

1. Promote the engagement among the current DDTC members: A survey has been assembled and will be send out to gather some data assist us going forward. Results will be discussed at the My meeting.

2. Expand the DDTC membership to younger people: This will be discussed at the May meeting. Lou George volunteered to lead this discussion.

Presidential Primary is on Tuesday March 5.  

Early voting is on February 24, 26, 27, 28 & 29.

Caucus was held to elect delegates to the State (Senatorial nominating Convention) to be on June 1 in Worcester at the DCU.

Caucus was well attended. Many Dems, who will be on the ballot in November including Rep Sally Kerans and Sen Joan Lovely, who are both up for reelection brought their forms for signatures.

The DDTC has an allotment of 14 delegates and 4 alternates divided by gender. Party officials such as Elected officials (Rep Sally Kerans), State Committee Members (Marilyn Hazel and Julie Curtis) and Committee Chairs (Marilyn Hazel) are invited to the convention. Lou Bernazzani, Maria Bernazzani, Phil Bolduc, Tom Meagher and Ted Speliotis were elected as delegates.

If you want to be a delegate but were unable to attend the caucus, you can be voted in. Send an email to Marilyn Hazel expressing your desire to attend.

There was a short business meeting after the caucus. There was a lively and very informative discussion concerning challenges we are facing around immigration and MAGA in Danvers.

The next meeting on March 25 will be to address what we must do as a committee to insure that we win in November. There will be discussion on ideas how we can get involved to I’m pact the outcomes locally and in other states and a Swing Left signing effort. Please attend with your ideas.