Weekly dispatch- Monday August 4th

Written By Bert Sise

Monday, August 4, 2025
 
Good Morning Friends!

Through your efforts, we added 322 Dems to our Vote By Mail total in July while the Republicans added 19.  Way to go everyone!  We will keep at it – hosting voter registration events up and down the Keys and talking to folks about the fact that ALL Vote by Mail Registrations were purged as of January 1, 2025 and must be renewed.

Here’s an update on our August 13 FUNdraiser – HOT NIGHTS – COOL
BLUE! There will be live music with Rolando Rojas on guitar, Stand-up
Comedy with Gwen Filosa and a live auction with some great items!
Our Auctioneer will be Steve Miller, local radio Celebrity. Fabulous
appetizers and door prizes, plus some candidates to meet. Join us in a
lovely, air-conditioned space downtown. (location revealed when you
click on the link for tickets.) $100 Entry includes 3 door prize tickets
and 2 drink tickets plus yummy apps. 6 – 8:30pm
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/hotnites


Mark your calendars for the August Keys Dems Meeting dates – remember... our regular meeting dates and locations have changed a bit so make sure to take note! 

  • Lower Keys Dems will meet on Monday, August 11 in the back room of Brady's Pub 1900 Flagler Ave. Key West 

  • Upper Keys Dems will meet on Wednesday, August 20 at The Catch 102041 Overseas Hwy, Key Largo

  • Middle Keys Dems will meet on Wednesday, August 27 in the Marathon Public Library

 
Local Government Meetings to attend this week (Aug 4- Aug 10)

Monroe County Board of County Commissioners https://www.monroecounty-fl.gov/
https://monroecounty-fl.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=1

Thursday, August 7, 2025, Community Meeting via Communications Media Technology (CMT) Zoom® Meeting, beginning at 5:05 PM.  Stock Island Owner, LLC & KW Perry, LLC request for a Major Conditional Use Permit

 
Village of Islamorada Council
https://www.islamorada.fl.us/Calendar.aspx

There are three budget workshops this week:

  1. Tuesday, August 5th, 3:00pm

  2. Wednesday, August 6th, 3:00pm

  3. Thursday, August 7th, 3:00pm

All three workshops are being held at Founders Park Community Center, 87000 Overseas Highway, Islamorada.  Your input is critical!  If you cannot attend – make sure to email your thoughts and recommendations!

WEDNESDAY August 6, 2025
The City of Key West is holding an all-day affair at City Hall starting at
9am with a 23-page agenda for the morning sessions. At 5pm they will
crank up again starting with A Resolution regarding the Rainbow
Cross-walks. If you look at the whole agenda I’d say we are going to
see an increase in our sewer bill and they want to put artificial turf at
the Amphitheater! Sure, let’s add more plastic to our already
deteriorating environment! Check it out!
https://keywest.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx

As you probably know, Republicans just passed a brutal budget bill that will:

  • Cut 17 million people off from health care over the next decade

  • Slash funding for hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes (especially in rural areas)

  • Gut SNAP food assistance for millions of children and seniors

Only about one-third of voters are aware of these cuts. Handwritten postcards help inform and mobilize them.   That's why we must... Agitate.  Educate.  Activate.
Want to Do Something Concrete Right Now?
Some of our folks are already writing and mailing hundreds of postcards to swing-state voters—and some are hosting postcard parties. These actions are among the most tangible and practical ways you can push back right now!
You can sign up in minutes, receive free materials from trusted organizations, and send handwritten postcards that influence voters before the next election.
1. Write postcards individually

2. Host a postcard party
Postcard parties are a powerful way to bring our community together, write in bulk, and fight back. Please host or attend one!
We are in a transition—from responding to each crisis as it comes, to building a resistance that is organized, strategic, and sustained.
We are moving from scattered reaction to organized resistance. Every postcard, every call, every conversation builds that bridge.
Hope is rooted in action – let's keep moving, keep connecting, and keep climbing.  Remember that every action you take now strengthens the bridge to the organized force we are becoming.


In Solidarity,

Holly Hummell-Gorman, Chair
chair@keysdems.com
FB – Florida Keys Democrats or Upper Keys Young Democrats or Upper Keys Democrats
WEBSITE – wwww.keysdems.com
INSTAGRAM - @keysdems
TWITTER/X - @DemsKeys
BlueSky - Keys for Liberty
@demskeys.bsky.social

 

Bert Sise
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