Countdown to Election Day 2024
![ELECTION DAY! @ Your Local Polling Station](https://malibudemocraticclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/voting-300x165.jpg)
The General/Midterm Election this year is Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Polls are open from 7 am until 8 pm. If you are in line at 8pm, you will be allowed to vote.
LA County voters can also vote in person early, starting 29 days before June 5, at the LA County Elections Office in Norwalk, CA (not far from LAX). For more info on Early Voting, Click Here
To find out where your polling place it, simply go to http://www.vote.org, and enter your address.
If anything goes wrong at your polling place on the day of the election, tell the poll workers that you want to file a PROVISIONAL BALLOT. Poll workers will know how to help you file a provisional ballot. You can find more information on filing a provisional ballot on the by Clicking Here.
For more information on voting, go to https://malibudemocraticclub.org/the-midterm-election-nov-6-2018/
![Veterans Day Veterans Town Hall with Rep. Ted Lieu @ Los Angeles National VA Cemetary](https://malibudemocraticclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LA-National-Cemetary.jpg)
Join Congressman Ted Lieu for a community forum aimed at establishing a greater understanding between local veterans and the friends and neighbors for whom they served.
Veterans are invited to share what their service means to them. Nonveterans are invited to attend, listen, and learn.
Ten Veterans will sit on the stage with Congressman Lieu and have three minutes to tell a story about something they experienced while in the service.
No questions or exchange between the audience and participants — this is a special opportunity for other veterans and the community to listen to what these vets experienced.
Over five hundred attended last year and said they found the event inspiring….
Questions: Email Janet.Turner@mail.house.gov or call (323)651-1040
The Veterans Town Hall follows Veteran’s Day LA National Cemetery Service at 10 am.
![Henry Stern Event on Insurance Recovery After the Fire @ Malibu Library](https://malibudemocraticclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Henry-Stern.jpg)
State Senator Henry Stern invites the Malibu community to this forum which will help clarify the insurance component of the Woolsey Fire recovery efforts. Insurance experts will be on hand to provide crucial information including:
- How to avoid potential scams
- Best practices in the short and long term
- What resources are available in the private, public, and non-profit sectors
All attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions unique to their situation after the forum.
SCHEDULED TO ATTEND:
- Senator Henry Stern, California Senate District 27 (host)
- Department of Insurance Deputy Commissioner of Consumer Services Tony Cignarale
- Neighborhood Legal Services Director of Litigation and Policy Advocacy Skip Koenig
- United Policyholders (invited)
THE POWER OF NUMBERS, MUTUAL SUPPORT, POLITICAL CLOUT
Malibu residents (owners and renters) who have lost their homes, or these of their homes, or have damage to their homes, in the Woolsey Fire are invited to attend the Operation Recovery ’19 Meeting.
The purpose of this meeting will be to assist victims in getting organized in order to begin to rebuild homes, neighborhoods and lives.
This week’s agenda will include:
- Legal Round Table presented by Pepperdine Law Disaster Relief Clinic.
- Negotiating Insurance Presented by John Cadarette of the Claro Group
- City of Malibu Updates
- Open Forum Q&A
Pubic officials, legal and insurance professionals may attend to lend support and answer specific questions.
LEADERSHIP WANTED
Neighborhood organizers and individuals who are organizing other fire victims groups are urged to participate, and are invited to contact The Malibu Times for further info, at 310-456-5507, ext. 117, or email OperationRecoveryMalibu@gmail.com.
Newly elected City Council Members Karen Farrer and Mikke Pierson will be sworn in at the Malibu City Council Meeting on Monday, Dec. 10, 2018, at 6:30 pm. A Reception will follow the meeting to welcome Karen and Mikke, and to honor outgoing City Council members Lou LaMonte and Laura Rosenthal. All who are interested in attending are welcome.
Board meetings are open to all members and interested Democrats.
The Board meeting this December will be held in the Library’s small conference room, because the large conference room is being used by Disaster agencies.
![Woolsey Fire Town Hall Meeting With LA County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl @ King Gillette Ranch](https://malibudemocraticclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Shiela-Kuehl.jpg)
LA County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, whose district includes much of the Woolsey Fire-affected areas, will host two town halls to provide resources for residents and answer questions that have arisen following the fires.
The Woolsey Fire was an unprecedented, fast-moving brush fire, 14 miles wide, with a footprint of 150 square miles, driven by gusts of up to 70 mph, and the most destructive fire LA County has ever seen. Three canyons were affected and 70,000 homes, businesses, and other structures lay in the fire’s path. A quarter of a million people were evacuated.
LA County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl and her staff are hosting two town hall meetings to provide information and answer questions regarding the fire recovery effort:
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
King Gillette Ranch
26800 Mulholland Hwy
Calabasas, CA 91302
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Pepperdine University
24255 Pacific Coast Highway
Malibu, CA 90263
PARTICIPANTS
- LA County Office of Emergency Management
- LA County Department of Public Works
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- Elected officials and staff from affected jurisdictions have also been invited
A robust recovery effort is underway to help residents whose homes have been damaged or destroyed. Find accurate, up-to-date information on the LA County Woolsey Fire Recovery page.
![Woolsey Fire Town Hall with LA County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl @ Pepperdine University](https://malibudemocraticclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Shiela-Kuehl.jpg)
The Woolsey Fire was an unprecedented, fast-moving brush fire, 14 miles wide, with a footprint of 150 square miles, driven by gusts of up to 70 mph, and the most destructive fire LA County has ever seen. Three canyons were affected and 70,000 homes, businesses, and other structures lay in the fire’s path. A quarter of a million people were evacuated.
LA County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl and her staff are hosting two town hall meetings to provide information and answer questions regarding the fire recovery effort:
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
King Gillette Ranch
26800 Mulholland Hwy
Calabasas, CA 91302
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Pepperdine University
24255 Pacific Coast Highway
Malibu, CA 90263
PARTICIPANTS
- LA County Office of Emergency Management
- LA County Department of Public Works
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- Elected officials and staff from affected jurisdictions have also been invited
A robust recovery effort is underway to help residents whose homes have been damaged or destroyed. Find accurate, up-to-date information on the LA County Woolsey Fire Recovery page.
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