Bay Ridge Democrats get out the vote with cell phones, pizza parties
Energized by their mayoral candidate’s recent surge in the polls, members of the Bay Ridge Democrats political club are feverishly trying to pull out the vote for Bill de Blasio by conducting pizza-fueled phone banks and old-fashioned knocking on doors.
The Bay Ridge Democrats, which endorsed de Blasio for mayor several months ago, is hosting a phone bank party this week, where supporters will cold call registered Democrats and ask them to vote for the public advocate in the Sept. 10 Democratic Primary. Volunteers will gather at The Art Room, an art school-gallery at 8710 Third Ave. co-owned by Club President Justin Brannan, on Thursday, Aug. 1, at 7 p.m. It will be the second of two such gatherings of de Blasio supporters. A phone bank session was also scheduled to take place on July 30.
Club President Justin Brannan sent a mass e-mail to local Democrats seeking volunteers to man the phones.