Please name my school board/city council fantasy football league team name. Assuming you can do better than Pretend Sportsball Team. 
OF COURSE we want to celebrate the 106th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which, coupled with the Voting Rights Act of 1965, gave American women the vote! And at the world’s only menstrual health boutique, OBVIOUSLY. Now I need mocktail recs! And your RSVP: msmoxiesmoonshop.com/products/moc...
You know that bad July jobs report? Turns out it was 100% due to women leaving the workforce. I read this as a random comment and didn’t believe it until I went to the source. Why isn’t THIS more talked about??? (Rhetorical, we all know the answer) nwlc.org/press-releas...
July Jobs Report: Women Accounted for 100 Percent of the Labor Force Decline - National Women's Law Center
WASHINGTON — Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center jobs analysis of monthly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Th...
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3HRS IN UNDER 3MINS! Here are Council meeting highlights: proclamations, school board $/election reform, waterfront bathrooms(!), Duke St land use early stage planning you’ll 💕, SRO MOU, + GO ALEX strategic planning w some nice features for all ages (e-bike incentives + free Metro bus for students)!
#alxskeets I keep accidentally not posting here—do you want to know that I’m at NOVA Labor? See the ALX little league grazing board alluring enough to hit up after an 11.5 hour public hearing? Know what books I’m reading? This ain’t meta—do you want meta content?
Sat AM, joined DRBA and Councilman Chapman in celebrating 2 small businesses on the Ave! Investing in your dream, signing a lease, offering up yourself up to the community with your livelihood at stake—it’s no small thing. Congrats to Lifestyle + Performance Fitness & the Department of Beer + Wine!
It’s almost midnight on the first day of the work week—so let’s talk a terrible lasagna, scheduling overload, hipster Hotmail addresses, and why we may need to send a search party for the bottom of Sandy’s inbox! Goodnight, Alexandria—can’t wait for tomorrow!
Here’s Sandy’s morning brag about ALX’s board members and commissioners, in general—but also specifically Marta Schantz and the Environmental Policy Commission, who held their retreat today. The expertise in that room, being put to work for our city in the name of altruism and civic duty—remarkable!
Thank you, Alexandrians—this is the greatest city in the world because YOU are here! I can’t wait to get to work for you on Alexandria City Council! Let’s go! - Sandy
LET’S GOOOOOOO! Rep Beyer, Sen EBP, Ldr Herring, Del McPike, Jon and Sandy and the whole Dem team are out this morning, knocking doors and talking to voters! We’re voting YES! For the amendment—and for housing affordability, public schools, climate action, protecting our immigrant + LGBTQ neighbors!
✅ IAFF LOCAL 2141 FIREFIGHTERS ENDORSE SANDY ✅ We are proud to stand with firefighters for fair wages, safe working conditions, livable hours, and affordable housing for working people! Thanks, firefighters! Proud to have you on the team!
We’re focused up, eyes on the prize, hydrated, and ready to go over here at Sandy for the City! Onward! LFG! Come out and knock with us—9am on Sat @ Evening Star w Beyer, EBP, Herring + McPike! Sun @ 9:15 with Beyer + Wes Moore! Or sign up to work the polls at AlexDEMS.org
SOMEONE SHOULD REALLY DO SOMETHING! (psssst: we are all someone) Choose your own knocking adventure—and also come to HiFi on Monday after work! What started as just a fundraiser has turned into a party. COME! RSVP for headcount: secure.actblue.com/donate/sipan...
It’s the first day of weekend voting! And mannnn those I Voted stickers look good on you! If you weren’t one of the 1,000+ people who voted today vote early tomorrow, Sun 11AM-3PM! You know what to do, team! For complete early voting hours, check the link in bio or visit sandyforthecity.com/vote
You’re resilient and compassionate and turn problems into progress, Alexandria. At the end of this day, I’m exhausted and inspired—and THIS IS THE WHY. ***There is so much to do!*** Vote by 4/21 so we can get to work!
Let’s talk anti-ICE advocacy and how we bring people to the table to get what we want.
Alexandria’s students are bright, hopeful, and optimistic—and public schools are the place where they all belong, where their educators and families come together with a shared goal. As stewards of their future, let’s value education and make ALX a place they can afford to live their whole lives.
YIMBYs of NOVA proudly endorse @sandymarks.bsky.social for Council! Sandy understands the shortage at the root of our housing crisis, & that building homes is a key part of the solution Our Alx members voted overwhelmingly to endorse her, & are excited to elect another housing champion to Council
✅ NOVA LABOR ENDORSES SANDY ✅ Sandy is beyond thrilled to have earned the trust and endorsement of the Northern Virginia Federation of Labor. She believes that safe working conditions, fair wages, and unionization aren’t just the right thing to do—they are civil rights.
✅MOMS DEMAND ACTION AWARDS GUN SENSE DISTINCTION TO SANDY✅ Sandy joined Moms Demand Action in 2013 and is an unabashed gun violence prevention candidate. The Sandy for the City team encourages all Alexandrians to text READY to 644-33 and add your talent to the movement!
On Sunday, we’re gathering friends and neighbors to raise a glass to the future of ALX—and we’d love for you to be there. Kathie Hoekstra and Kelly Johnson are co-hosting! Campaigns are built when good people coming together and say, “I’m in.” Can you make it? secure.actblue.com/donate/raise...
🔥SANDY’S MORNING WAS ON FIRE!🔥 Spent the a.m. with Plumbers & Gasfitters UA Local 5 at the training facility + learned a thing or 12! They’re training the future & lighting the way to highly skilled, good paying jobs w benefits and the kind of supportive community we want for our kids + ourselves.
YES, EISENHOWER AVE! What’s the Sandy for the City Team doing on any given day? We’re knock knock knocking with @fairelectionsva and having a great time doing it! Come out with Sandy one of these days: sandyforthecity.com [link in bio]
💐 Happy International Women’s Day! 🌺 Empowered women empower women, and we’re out supporting Sandy for City Council and YES! on the constitutional referendum to celebrate! Early voting is OPEN NOW! Vote by 4/21!
✅DEL MCPIKE ENDORSES SANDY✅ “I endorse Sandy because her values are Alexandria values. On climate change, abortion access, housing & standing up for everyone in our community, she is the only candidate who will take meaningful action on the issues that matter most to Alexandrians.” - Del McPike, HD5
Sandy Marks wants to keep Alexandria City Council moving forward
Sandy Marks wants to keep Alexandria City Council moving forward
The Democratic nominee sat down with the Alexandria Brief Tuesday ahead of early voting, which begins Friday.
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It’s official! Democratic nominee’s paperwork is filed! Onward to the 4/21 election! (Vote early to get yourself off the comms lists quick! EV starts 3/6!) 🇺🇸
