At a membership meeting on January 29, 2019, following our second co-sponsored Public Advocate Forum, DID endorsed club member and our NY State Committeeman Ben Yee for Public Advocate.

In this article by Sydney Pereira in the Villager, Ben Yee, Obama tech guru, chose to act locally, Ben describes why he has the clearest vision for how to use the Public Advocate office to improve how the government works for New Yorkers.

The article and this two minute video demonstrate why Downtown Independent Democrats, Grand Street Democrats, Village Independent Democrats, and One Queens Indivisible have endorsed him. The Midterm Blue Wave was driven by the kind of active civic engagement Ben has been teaching and working for for years.