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2010-2011 Candidacy Statement

Hey everybody, my name is Terry Moynihan, I’m a Junior Math/Government major, and I’m running for President of the Cornell Democrats.

I’ve been an active member of the Dems since the start of my freshman year at Cornell, when I took part in a campaign trip to New Hampshire for the presidential primary and was on the planning committee for the year’s CDNY convention, which we hosted. At the end of my freshman year, I was elected as Director of Public Relations, and I served in that position last year. During the election year I participated in numerous campaign trips for both the Obama campaign in Pennsylvania, and Eric Massa for Congress (if elected, I promise to do my best to find candidates who don’t sexually harass their staffers). This year I’ve served as the club’s treasurer, and have been responsible for our bank account, the SAFC budget (along with Mike), room reservations, the occasional Facebook event, and various miscellaneous Dems tasks throughout the year.

In addition to my experience with the club, I have substantial outside political experience that I believe will prove useful to the club next year in the 2010 elections. I got my start in the 2006 elections, working as an intern for the Minnesota Democratic Party and Senator Amy Klobuchar and Congressman Tim Walz. I interned again with Congressman Walz in the summer of 2008, worked in his DC office in summer 2009, and this summer I will work as an intern in Senator Gillibrand’s DC office. I have extensive experience recruiting and training volunteers from these jobs, which will come in handy in planning for our campaign trips in the fall.

Our goal for next year must be to repeat the success we had in the fall of 2008, when we had almost 100 members participate in campaign trips to Pennsylvania and Central New York. We need to plan two or three major campaign trips, along with excursions to nearby congressional districts every weekend. We also need to mix campaign and social events. Campaigning together on Saturday afternoons and then partying together Saturday night helped create a tight-knit group that remained active that year. And also like 2008, I believe that voter registration drives should be a major part of our first semester agenda, which we need to plan over the summer so we can hit the ground running. After the campaign, we will continue our issue advocacy and aggressively pursue more speakers like Joan Walsh and Congressman Barney Frank.

Thanks for your consideration; I look forward to seeing all of you on Wednesday.

2009-2010 Candidacy Statement

Hi, my name is Terry Moynihan and I am running for Vice President of the Cornell Democrats. I am a math major in the College of Arts and Sciences (’11). For the past year, I have served on the executive board as director of public relations of the CU Democrats. I think I have the experience and vision to serve as an effective Vice President next year.

I’ve been very involved in the club since my freshman year, when I participated in planning a campaign trip to New Hampshire and helped plan that year’s CDNY convention at Cornell. At the end of my freshman year I was elected Director of Public Relations. Since then, I have been responsible for publicizing our events in the Daily Sun and I have worked with Cornell administration on room reservations and club registration (bureaucratic stuff).

In addition, I have extensive experience working in politics outside of Cornell. In 2006, I served as an intern for the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer Labor Party, and now-Senator Amy Klobuchar and Congressman Tim Walz. This past summer, I served as a field intern on Congressman Walz’s re-election campaign, and next summer I will be working for him as an intern in Washington DC.

Member retention has been a serious issue with our club this year. To address this concern next year, we need more involvement from our members in planning club activities. The CU Democrats Vice President traditionally works on planning a number of events, and as VP I will do everything I can involve new members and give them more of a personal commitment to the club. I also believe that expanding our issue advocacy will help us bring in new members.