The full schedule and list of events at the 2009 College Democrats of New York Convention, happening this weekend.
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The Convention is being hosted by the St. Johns University chapter, on their Manhattan campus at 101 Murray Street. The Convention kicks off Friday night at 9pm with a comedy show by Laughing Liberally at the Rush Bar on 579 6th Avenue.
Saturday morning starts with a breakfast at 9am, followed by introductions and a welcoming by the leadership of the NY Young Democrats.
At 11:30am, we will have our breakout sessions in
Communications, Finance, Field Organizing, and New Media. Communications is being hosted by Carly Lindauer, the former Communications Director of the state party. Finance is being led by Stephanie Hausner, the Finance Director for the McElroy State Senate campaign; Field Organizing is being led by Mike Boland from the Working Families Party, and New Media is led by Phillip Anderson from The Albany Project blog.
After lunch and another round of those same breakout sessions, we will have our state senate panel at 2:40 p.m. featuring State Senators Brian Foley, Liz Krueger, Bill Perkins, and Toby Ann Stavisky. They will be discussing the direction of our state senate and the policies they hope to implement in a new Democratic majority.
At 4:15 p.m. the Truman Project military group will be giving a seminar on how to debate military and defense issues from a Democratic perspective.
After some internal organization proceedings that we need to take care of such as by-laws updates, etc., Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi will be speaking at 6pm.
Later that evening at 9pm, at NYU's Kimmel building, at 60 Washington Square South, we will be hosting our Social Networking event with a slew of elected officials. The list of politicians expected in attendance includes: Assemblyman William Scarborough, Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV, Assemblyman Mike Spano, Councilman Tony Avella, Councilman Jim Gennaro, Councilman David Yassky, Councilman Eric Gioia, City Council candidate Steve Behar, City Council candidate Jaques Leandre, City Council candidate Francisco Moya and Borough President candidate Dave Kerpen.
On Sunday, we will have elections for our executive board.
We may have one or two additional politicians attending; Schumer's office said he might stop by if he has a chance for a few minutes