10/29/2018
United For Progress Democratic Club, Inc.
The Late Hon. Henry McCoy/Founder
Hon. Gregory Meeks, District Leader
Hon. June Bunch, District Leader
33 A. D., PART B
NEWSLETTER
Essie Lowry
Program Coordinator
October 2018
[email protected]
The next General membership meeting of the United for Progress Democratic Club, Inc. (UFPDC) will be held on Thursday, November 8, 2018 7:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian Church of St. Albans
190-02 119th Ave-nue—St. Albans, NY 11412
in the church’s downstairs meeting room.
We will not have a scheduled guest speaker, because this meeting is being held right after our VOTING day of November 6th, so, we have extended an open invitation to any and all of the candidates that the club supported to come speak before the audience and thank them for their votes in additional to any other information they wish to share with us.
Previous Meeting Update
Our October 2018 General Mem-bership Meeting was held on Thurs-day, October 11, 2018.
The speaker for the evening was
The Honorable Rory Lancman, 24th Council District.
Councilman Lancman gave an update on the planned closing of Riker’s Island, among other topics involving our community. He also announced that his future plans are to run for Queens District Attorney. Our current District Attorney (Richard Brown) after being in office for 28 years, does not expect to run for another term.
Councilman Lancman chairs the committee on Courts and Legal Affairs, which puts him in a key posi-tion to see the injustices against our black and brown young people. Some of his visions are to:
1) not request maximum sentences for mi-nor offenses such as possession of small amounts of ma*****na,
2)minor offenses to be dismissed in-stead of placing in criminal catego-ries among other changes to the Court System.
Councilman Lanc-man took questions after speaking.
Political News
UPFDC would like to congratulate the candidates that won in the September 13th Primary on the State Level, (i.e. Governor: Mario Cuomo, Lieutenant Governor: Kathy Hochul, State Attorney Gen-eral: Letitia James (against several opponents), John Liu against former IDC Member, State Senator Tony Avella 11th Senatorial District, State Assemblyman: Clyde Vanel, and Assemblywoman Alicia Hyndman.
City Government level: Queens Borough President: Melinda Katz, Councilman: I. Daneek Miller (another term in the City Council), District Leaders: the Honorable Archie Spigner, Leslie Spigner, Roslin Spigner and a host of others on all levels.
VOTING:
UPFDC cannot stress enough the importance of voting. Please encourage all of your family and friends to go out and vote. The stakes have never been higher. We need to vote to change the Congressman and Senate houses. Once this is done, there will be a change in the Presidency. Please, no excuses, go out and VOTE.
On the opposite side of your ballot you will find Three (3) Proposals.
#1: Campaign Finance, VOTE YES
Proposal #2: Civic Engagement Commission, VOTE NO
Proposal #3: Community Boards, VOTE NO.
Gone But Not Forgotten
The Executive Board of UPFDC is deeply sadden to inform you of the passing of the club’s 1st Vice President, Retired Police Lieutenant, Henry Murphy, who departed this life on Sunday, October 14, 2018. Mr. Murphy served the club very faithfully until his health failed. We will certainly miss him. Our condolences to the entire Murphy Family.
In addition, Our condolences to the Wallace Family. Our long time faithful member of the club (Mrs. Nelly Wallace) who departed this life in September. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace never missed a General Membership Meeting until Mrs. Wallace became too ill to drive. May God have mercy on her soul. The club will surely miss her pres-ence at our meetings.
Club Dues Reminder
Please bring your dues current if you have not already done so. Your dues assists in our mailings and other pertinent obligations.
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