Wednesday, September 20,
Littleton Senior Center@5.30 pm, Zoom @6pm

The Grafton and Coös County Democratic Committees, together with the Northern Grafton County Dems, are jointly sponsoring a hybrid meeting on September 20 to focus on the Senate District 1 seat. 

Our guest speaker will be Steve Marchand of Move the Goalposts, doing an analysis of the 2022 results and what they mean for Democratic prospects to flip that seat to Blue next year, similar to the kind of analysis he did earlier this summer for the NH House districts in Grafton County.

The program will run from 6 to 7:30 p.m. and you can attend in person at the Littleton Senior Center or via Zoom.  Registration details for in-person and Zoom coming next week.

Residents of Bethlehem, Easton, Franconia, Littleton and Sugar Hill get ready!

The New Hampshire Department of Business and Economic Affairs created the Office of Broadband Initiatives in preparation for millions of federal funding that would be coming to New Hampshire for broadband expansion and adoption.
https://www.nheconomy.com/office-of-broadband-initiatives

In its second round of payouts, Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law has provided more funding in New Hampshire.  Residents of the Grafton County towns listed above can choose an internet connection through fiber. There is no installation cost, saving homeowners as much as $10,000!

Click on the Fidium link below to find your town’s webpage. Residents can preorder as well as see product/pricing information. If you live in one of the listed towns you can apply right now. This is a one-time opportunity to not have to pay installation fees.
Click here: https://www.fidiumfiber.com/Fiber-Locations

Wednesday, September 13 @7 pm

Back to school season is upon us. Parents and teachers have bought school supplies, kids are finding out which classroom they will be in, and we are all excited for the possibilities a new school year brings.

Unfortunately, back to school season also comes with real fears about school safety, especially the looming threat of gun violence in our classrooms. 

Send letter to your legislator and ask them what they plan to do about community gun violence: http://act.granitestateprogress.org/cms/thanks/tell-your-lawmaker-guns-have-no-place-nh-public-schools?action_id=37553&akid=2428.15144._4Zhyw&ar=1&rd=1&taf=1

(Thanks, Zandra Rice Hawkins, Director of GunSense NH, a project of Granite State Progress)

Then join CCNH and watch our video series. Sign up for a one-hour workshop. You can sign up with a friend or with a group!

Click here for CCNH: http://www.conversationcanvassing24.org/
Our next workshops are:
Wednesday, September 13@7 pm
Wednesday, October 4@7 pm
Tuesday, October 17@7pm

Saturday, September 23,
@2 pm

Thank you Hanover/Lyme Dems!

In case you hadn’t realized, the Hanover/Lyme Dems are contributing all the funds raised at this September event to the our Grafton County 2024 Democratic candidates! How special is that!!

We will be celebrating Rep. Sharon Nordgren’s 35 years of service and her 80th birthday on September 23, and raising funds for our Grafton County Dem candidates, many of whom have been mentored by Sharon over the years.

Please click here to register for this event. This will help us plan!
Please click here to make a donation. Funds raised will go the Grafton County Dems for their 2024 election work!   

It’s a win!! 495 votes for Democratic candidate David Fracht to 184 for his opponent!!

A huge thanks to David for running, to David’s team in Enfield, and to all those canvassers who knocked doors.
“Congratulations to Representative-Elect David Fracht for his overwhelming win in the Enfield special election. The New Hampshire Democratic Party welcomes you to the State House. Fracht is an extraordinary Granite Stater and a dedicated public servant who will stop at nothing to help protect the rights and liberties of all Granite Staters.” NHDP Chair Ray Buckley.

Monday, August 28, 6-8 pm
The Galway Room at Salt Hill is reserved, and Mary Hakken-Phillips is preparing questions for the first-ever UV Dems Trivia Night!! 

How many years has Sharon Nordgren served in the NH House? Who was the first female Bureau Chief of EMS at the NH Department of Safety? How many indictments has a certain former president racked up? Points awarded for correct answers, closest answers, and most creative!

Email us at uvdems@gmail.com to let us know if you can make it. We have space for up to 40. Let’s fill the room and have some fun!

Wednesday, August 28 @7 pm

Listen to David Fleischer, credited with inventing deep canvassing at a Tedx Talk Mid-Atlantic. Around 2008 in California, David was an activist, working around LGBTQ+ rights, and was looking for a way to humanize the issue, to talk to people who opposed gay marriage, face to face, as a real, respectful and vulnerable person, with his own personal story.
Join CCNH and watch our video series. Then sign up for a one-hour workshop. You can sign up with a friend or with a group!
Click here for the video: https://youtu.be/S2Hg-dEJMlg
Click here for CCNH: http://www.conversationcanvassing24.org/

Our next workshops are:

Monday, August 28 @7 pm,
Wednesday, September 13@7 pm
Wednesday, October 4@7 pm
Tuesday, October 17@7pm

Karen Liot Hill of Lebanon is the first to declare her candidacy for Executive Councilor. Read here

While a formal announcement is coming next month, we wanted to share the news that Karen has thrown her hat into the race for the Executive Council District 2. Good luck, Karen! 

The Haverhill Fair Booth A Great Success! Thanks to everyone who volunteered to represent the Grafton County Dems at our fair booth! And thanks to those of you who visited us!

The banned books auction was a resounding success.   People did sign up to win a book, but most people didn’t even bother to sign up; they just wanted to talk. We had some great conversations.  Middle school and high school English teachers all have an opinion, and they are also very concerned, as they should be.  Many NH and VT residents share our concern.
 
The banned books were:
For young readers…
And Tango Makes Three 
My Shadow is Purple 
Red: A Crayon’s Story 
For the adult books:
The Handmaid’s Tale 
The Catcher in the Rye 
To Kill a Mockingbird 
We started getting the books to their new owners this past weekend. 

Thanks to Karen Liot Hill for the banned books idea, thanks to Sue Ford for organizing it, and to Deb Reynolds for chairing the event with Sue.
Thank you all…we can’t do anything like this without good volunteers!

NH House in the Special Election to be held August 22, 2023!

Next Canvss: Saturdays, August 12 &19 2023, 10:00 a.m.
Your help is needed to help elect Democrat, David Fracht, to the NH House in the Special Election to be held August 22, 2023 (less than 3 weeks away!)

1. August is a very difficult month for a special election because people are not paying attention so we need you to knock doors and remind Enfield voters about the election.
2. August is the last month of summer and people go away for short stints and need to be reminded to go down and get an absentee ballot. We need you to hand out absentee ballot applications when we knock as a reminder.
   Click below to volunteer to canvass.

In an August special election, numbers count! We need to turn out Democrats! 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1wIXGtogEoZwCzFhy9m4HA9g0XVFjCzDG5nhUcvRHjnI/edit