ICYMI

Arizona – The AZPP discussed Outreach and Committees. Members recently attended a protest last Tuesday and made contacts with the local PSL chapter. Arizona also ratified all recent bylaws changes, as well as discussed topics such as creating political ads and declaring a stance of “no comment” regarding AI.

This Wednesday the AZPP will meet. The agenda includes adding the banning of cash bail to the AZPP platform. T-shirts will be in production soon. The AZPP has a VPS set up for better, more efficient communication.

Committees – No major committee updates; all active committees reported back nothing of note.

Illinois – A Facebook page has been created for the “Midlothian Pirate Party,” which will what Trustee candidate “Jolly” Mitch Davilo will be running under. More campaign announcements are slated for August, but the page that will promote said campaign has been created.

For all intents and purposes, this is still a candidate of the Illinois and Chicagoland Pirate Parties and will be promoted as such.

Maryland – a recent in-person meeting was scheduled but cancelled before the meeting could take place. A new meeting will be planned and announced soon.

Ohio – An unexpected agenda item last night: we endorsed the campaign of Libertarian Party candidate for Ohio’s 5th Congressional District, Michael “Doc Agnew/Drunk Uncle” Veloff. Running against a beneficiary of nepotism, Veloff is running a serious campaign; topped off with a position to move all the gold from Fort Knox into his basement. The endorsement passed 5-0-1.

Tennessee – Jacob Anders, candidate for Tennessee’s 4th Congressional District, joined us for Talk the Plank! on July 17th, and will return for a Part II appearance later this week. Jacob will join us on July 26th meeting for the endorsement.

Wisconsin – USPP-endorsed-candidate Pete Karas will be hosting a “Break the Duopoly” rally event on July 26th at 4pm. Pete Karas, joined by Jill Stein and other Green Party affiliated guests, will be speaking during the event.

That’s all for the 7.19 open meeting. Thank you to our non-PNC member states from Alabama, California, Maine and North Carolina for joining us. You can catch up on all you might have missed here.

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