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Doors open at 5:30pm for refreshments, socializing/networking, and hot topic discussions until the meeting calls to order at 6:00pm. Club members in good standing will vote to endorse Democratic candidates on the November ballot. New members are only eligible to vote after a 30 day waiting period. Candidates who receive a 60% vote from members at the endorsement meeting will win the endorsement and will be published on this website and social media.

Candidates Being Considered for Endorsement

Candidates who completed our club’s Questionnaire include a link for easy review:

• Keisha Thomas for Fresno Unified School Board Area 1
• Veva Islas for Fresno Unified School Board Area 4
• James R. Barr for Fresno Unified School Board Area 7
• Destiny Rodriguez for SCCCD Trustee Area 1
• Gilbert Felix for SCCCD Trustee Area 5
• Robert Fuentes for SCCCD Trustee Area 5
• Shawn M. Brooks for Central Unified School Board Area 4
• Nabil Kherfan for Central Unified School Board Area 4

Click here to review candidate information.

Candidates seeking endorsement should complete our club questionnaire to inform our members of their positions on LGBTQ+ issues. The questionnaire can be downloaded from our Endorsements 2022 page: https://fresnostonewalldemocrats.org/endorsements/

Click here to send us an email if you have any questions or are unsure of your voting status or membership dates.

Guest Speaker: Tiffany Woods, LGBTQ Caucus Co-Chair, regarding Monkeypox

Scheduled Speakers: Candidates for SCCCD Trustee positions

• Destiny Rodriguez – Area 1
• Magdalena Gomez – Area 4
• Robert Fuentes – Area 5
• Gilbert Felix – Area 5

Club members will vote at the September 13 meeting to select candidates for endorsement. You must be a member FOR 30 DAYS before you can vote on club business or participate in the endorsement process — so join today!

Our general meetings are held on the second Tuesday of every month at 5:30pm. Meeting Announcements are distributed to our mailing list subscribers a week ahead of time. Please join our mailing list for announcements and a reminder the day before: FSD Mailing List

Tiffany Woods, Co-Chair of the California Democratic Party’s LGBTQ Caucus will be our speaker at this meeting. [Bio below is snipped from https://www.cdplgbtqcaucus.org]

Tiffany is a wife, mother of three, trans woman, activist, recognized local, state, and national LGBTQ+ leader. She is an Appointed California Democratic Party Delegate by Rep. Barbara Lee, CD-13, (3 terms) and the 1st Trans Woman to be elected a California Democratic Party Caucus Chair as Co-Chair of the LGBTQ Caucus in 2019, and re-elected in 2021. She is a 2021 appointed member of the CDP Credentials Standing Committee. She served as Secretary of the LGBTQ Caucus from 2017-2019. She was selected by Speaker Pro-Tem Toni Atkins as one of eight LGBTQ Californians as a CA LGBTQ Legislative Caucus Pride Honoree in 2020.

An At-Large Hillary Clinton Delegate to the DNC in 2016, she is one of the first three trans delegates to ever attend the Democratic National Convention from California, and a member of the historic first ever DNC Transgender Caucus. In 2017, she became an Emerge CA 2017 and Equality California Leadership Institute Alumna. Tiffany has worked in HIV prevention and Trans Health for 20+ years creating and implementing groundbreaking, innovative, nationally and internationally recognized inclusive health care spaces and programs for transgender and gender nonbinary folx. She currently works at the California Department of Public Health, Office of AIDS, as the first Transgender Health and Community Engagement Specialist.