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The College Democrats of NY have just announced that the 2009 Convention will be held at St. Johns University. St. Johns has been a great chapter throughout this 2008 election season. They worked on multiple State Senate races, Obama's Presidential race, and for democrats running for City Council. They where supported by the president of the New York Young Dems, as well as many of the chapters in Long Island and the New York City region. Other contenders where Binghamton University, the University of Albany, and Stony Brook University.

The Washington Post is reporting that Howard Dean is not going to run for a second term as chairmen. Dean, always a fan of the netroots and the youths, Dean will sorely be missed as DNC chair. Under chairmen Dean, the Democratic party has been able to expand into all fifty states and have made us competitive in states that have traditionally been red. With this change, the path is now open for President Obama to put a loyalist into the position. We can only hope that his pick is as good to the netroots and youths as Gov. Dean was.

After a long and contentious battle to get Jon Powers off of the WFP line and to get Alice Kryzan on the line, an appellate court judge has ruled that Powers will be off the line and Kryzan will get it.

El Diario, the largest Spanish language newspaper in the Northeast has decided to endorse Councilman joe Addabbo for State Senate. This is one of our best chances to take back a seat in the senate and this endorsement will go far to help. The district that he will represent is 26% Hispanic. If you live near the area please help out the campaign this GOTV weekend.

Here's an event notice for an event on Long Island for Brian Foley for Senate:

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to Headline Rally for Change with Brian X. Foley Date: Saturday November 1, 2008 Time: 10:30 am Location: 95 East Main St. Patchogue, NY 11772 Who: Attorney General Andrew Cuomo Supervisor Brian X. Foley Congressman Tim Bishop Assemblywoman Patricia Eddington Attorney General Andrew Cuomo will join State Senate Candidate Brian X.

A few weeks ago our very own Brian Young, the Communications Director of CDNY, was on BlogTalkRadio discussing Obama's and McCain's energy policies. Brian debated Charlie Smith, the chairman of the College Republican National Committee. The whole episode of BlogTalkRadio is below, and here's a good excerpt from Brian:

“In 10 years, we could already have an affordable [alternative] fuel source…The studies say that, if we drill offshore, it would only reduce our gas prices by 1 to 2 percent.”