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Which side are you on, Tony Avella?

By The Editors · February 10, 2017
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When:
February 24, 2017 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
2017-02-24T13:00:00-05:00
2017-02-24T14:00:00-05:00
Where:
Senator Tony Avella
3850 Bell Blvd
Bayside, NY 11361
USA
Contact:
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Electoral Politics General Anti-Trump Local Politics

Wonder why New York State isn’t standing up to Trump like California?

Because our New York State Senate is a WRECK! Get this: Did you know despite the New York State Senate having a Democratic MAJORITY, it doesn’t vote that way, thanks to the eight men and women of the rogue breakaway group known as the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC)?

Join Rise & Resist as we push our New York State Senators who are members of the IDC to act like real Democrats instead of Democrats in name only, so New York State can have a Democratic MAJORITY again!

Care about Gerrymandering? Voter Suppression? Single Payer? Rent Control? Women’s Reproductive rights? LGBT+ rights? These all happen at the STATE LEVEL. Which is why, with the oncoming Trumpocolypse, it is vital we get the majority back in the New York State Senate IMMEDIATELY. The left has ignored State level races for 30 years, focusing only on the Presidency and US Congress, which has allowed the Republicans to take control of most of the country’s state legislatures, which has given them the power to gerrymander districts and disenfranchise voters. Time to put the kibosh on that. WE ARE WOKE!

IDC founder Jeff Klein and his minions like to say they group is for “getting things done” — but all they’re doing is blocking genuine progressive action in Albany for their own selfish power play.

Tony Avella represents the 11th district in Queens, which is adjacent to fellow IDC member Jose Peralta’s district. Elected to the Senate in 2010, he joined the IDC in 2014. He is chair of the Children and Families committee and the vice-chair of the Enviromental Conservation committee – although he co-sponsored the recent bill that killed the 5-cent bag tax. He gets paid extra $$ for being in the IDC.

Join us as we show up at Avella’s Bayside office to ask him, “Which side are you, Tony Avella?”

To better understand what the IDC is, here is a recent Village Voice article:
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/albany-will-stay-broken-and-the-growing-independent-democratic-conference-is-a-big-reason-why-9612732

Follow our movement against the IDC here:
https://www.facebook.com/Independent-Democratic-Conference-1844041432479505/

To get to Senator Avella’s office, take the LIRR to the Bayside station, or take the Q31 or Q13 bus.

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