President’s Message
August has been a surprising and exciting month!
The 2024 Women’s Equality Day Celebration was a smashing success, raising money for the NWPC PAC account to support endorsed candidates. The tone was set by the outstanding honorees NWPC recognized Cathy Brass; Dr. Marie Harris; Elizabeth Jonasson Rosas; Jen Cruz, awarded the “Mary Stanley Courage to Run Award;” Raj Sodhi-Layne, awarded the “Mary Stanley Courage to Run Award;” and Luis Chavez, awarded the “Harry Burns Good Guy Award.”
Special thanks to Betty Yee, former state controller, and candidate for the gubernatorial race in 2026, straight from the Democratic National Convention for your very informative speech!
Thank you to the Sponsors: Platinum Sponsor’s; Cathy Brass, The Fresno Center, Fresno Unified School District, Raj Sodhi-Layne; Diamond Sponsor’s; Madera Community College, State Center Community College District; Gold Sponsor’s; Congressman Jim Costa, Noia Residential – Lucia Noia; Silver Sponsor; Assemblywoman Esmerelda Soria; Bronze Sponsor’s; Claudia- Soria Delgado, Lynn & Chet Badertscher, Marsha Conant & Marilyn Watts, Diane Milutinovich and Fresno City Council President Annalisa Perea!
As I always say, serving as President of Fresno NWPC is a joy because of the dedicated and caring women who share the passion to elect more women and readily volunteer to help!
Thank you Women’s Equality Day Committee and volunteers; Cathy Brass, Lynn Badertscher, Linda Knight, Layne Wright-Wall, Claudia Soria – Delgado, Kathy Atkins, Darcy Brown, Joanne Bazarian, Kimberly Tapscott-Munson, Julie Andrews, Patty Capelluti, Sharon Ferrer, Myra Coble, Jeanie Santos, Gina Vue, and Frances Berman for helping to make this year’s Women’s Equality Day a tremendous success! If I omitted anyone, I apologize.
THE ANNOUNCEMENT
Within hours after President Biden withdrew from the presidential race and endorsed VP Kamala Harris, NWPC endorsed her candidacy and began promoting her campaign! We all know there has never been a greater difference between presidential candidates, the platforms they stand on, and their potential impact on women!
This will be a very close race and it is incumbent on each of us to do our part! We can each impact the outcome of this election by getting involved!
Local opportunities include; Phone Bank for Kamala on Tuesday afternoons from 12:30 pm to 3:00 pm or Thursday from 5:30 pm – to 8:00 pm, coordinated by NWPC member Myra Coble or join the merry bunch of volunteers writing postcards on Friday mornings from 10 am to noon, led by NWPC member Patty Capelluti. These actions occur at the Fresno Democratic HQ, 1033 U Street, Fresno., 559-495-0606.
Let’s re-elect NWPC’s endorsed candidates Assemblywoman Esmeralda Soria; SCCCD Trustee Nasreen Johnson; FUSD Trustee Elizabeth Jonasson Rosas and Elect Kamala Harris!
In Equality,
Marsha
