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Congratulations,
President-Elect Obama!
RI
Young Democrats Elect New Leadership
PROVIDENCE
- The Rhode
Island Young
Democrats announced today the election of Megan Grady of Barrington as
president, Kimberly Ahern of Providence as vice-president and Eric Coury
of Barrington as national committeeman. They are replacing outgoing
president Andy Andujar,
vice-president Matt Jerzyk and national committeeman Julian
Dash,
all Providence residents.
"We felt that now is an appropriate time to pass the torch to a new
generation," Andujar said. "For the last three years, we
have mobilized young people by the thousands to register to vote and to
vote for Democrats like Sheldon
Whitehouse in
2006 and Barack
Obama in 2008.
And, there are more Democrats in the General Assembly than ever
before."
"More than 30,000 young voters registered to vote in the last 18
months." said Jerzyk. "And the Young Democrats were not
only instrumental in registering young people, but we organized hundreds
of young people to get on buses to carry the battleground state of New
Hampshire for Obama and solicited the help of people like Martin
Sheen to do robo-calls
encouraging young people to come out and vote."
"We are incredibly grateful for the three years of leadership that
Andy, Matt and Julian have given our organization," Grady said.
"They did what all great leaders do: leave the organization in a
much stronger position than how they found it. Our new leadership
team hopes to do the same."
The rest of the board of the Young Democrats remains the same: Anthony
Colaluca of Coventry, treasurer; Rich Blott, political director; and
William Pierce of Warwick, Diversity chair.
There are currently three vacancies on the board for secretary, national
committeewoman and communications director. The Young Democrats are
encouraging all registered Democrats between the ages of 18 and 35 to
submit letters of interest for any of these positions to riyoungdems@gmail.com. |
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2009
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RI Young Democrats
Board of Directors
Megan
Grady, President
Kimberly
Ahern, Vice-President
Anthony
Colaluca, Treasurer
[vacant],
Secretary
Rich
Blott, Political Director
Eric
Coury
National Committee Man
[vacant]
National Committee Woman
William
Pierce
Diversity Chair
[vacant]
Communications Director
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