Our Very Own DC Mayor Candidate’s Forum on the Environment

by Chris Weiss, Director, DC Environmental Network

This is it! We now have a date and time for our upcoming DC Mayor Candidate’s Forum on the Environment! We already have the commitment of candidate and DC Council Chair Vincent Gray. We are hoping Mayor Fenty and others will also be able to participate.

We will be holding this important educational discussion at Harriet’s Family Restaurant, 436 11th Street NW (near Metro Center & Archives Metro Stations) at 5:30 – 7:00 pm. You are all invited to come eat, drink, or just listen as our Mayoral candidates answer questions from some the District’s most active environmental campaigns.

You ARE the DC environmental community and this is YOUR opportunity to show the Mayoral candidates you want them to prioritize our pressing issues, both in their campaigns and should they be elected to office. In order to achieve this goal I need your help:

1. We need as many environmental organizations and activists to participate in this forum. Register yourself for this event NOW! CLICK HERE!
2. We need your organization to sponsor this Mayoral Forum and show the candidates how united we are in our efforts to restore the District’s fragile urban environment. Become a sponsor by emailing me at cweiss@dcen.net . It is as simple as that!
3. This is a educational forum so any 501 (C3) organization can sponsor this event. There will be NO endorsement connected to this event.
4. We need you to invite your friends and organizational members to this event. Again, this is going to be the only opportunity for the environmental community to show their unity during this election cycle.
5. Please direct your members to our Registration Page at: https://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/6642/p/salsa/event/common/public/?event_KEY=23988
6. We will be holding a Environmental Mayoral Forum Conference Call next Tuesday the 17th @ Noon. The call in number is (775) 269-3893. When prompted enter 399602. RSVP to this meeting at cweiss@dcen.net . It will be very quick. (45 minutes to an hour, tops!) We will discuss format of event, questions and outreach efforts.

This should be a fairly simple and straight forward event. We had hundreds participate in the Mayoral Forum in 2006. I think we should, with a little work, match that level of participation.

REGISTER FOR THE FORUM NOW! CLICK HERE!