CHESTERFIELD, VA (WWBT) –
As the 2018 midterm elections gets closer, political experts say there is a growing grass-roots activists group to keep your eye on: The Liberal Women of Chesterfield County, which formed after the 2016 presidential election.
Kim Drew-Wright, a self described “soccer mom,” who lives in Chesterfield put out a call on Facebook and word quickly spread.
“I would say that the 2016 presidential election absolutely was a catalyst for my calling out to progressive like-minded people so that we could come together and feel like we were not alone,” Drew-Wright said. “I thought it would be a small group of women who would sit around the table and kind of commiserate over politics.”
That idea quickly changed. Now there are more than 3,000 members.
“The membership request just kept flooding in,” Drew-Wright said. “At our first meeting in November of 2016, we have people who drove an hour away to get to that meeting. There was a real need for us to come together.”
Members of the group volunteer, knock on doors, hand out flyers, register voters and campaign for progressive candidates.
“I think part of our success is the way we’re organized and structured,” Drew-Wright said. “It’s not just one group, it’s over 50 sub-groups. We have neighborhood groups all around the county and surrounding counties. We have advocacy groups. What happens is it multiplies everything, so it multiplies the number of leaders we have, the number of projects, the number of opportunities for volunteering in the community.”
The organization’s volunteering and advocacy efforts appear to be paying off for the Democrats.
In the last election season, candidates backed by this organization have either come close to beating or have beaten their Republican opponents in areas that have voted conservative for decades.
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