VADP Annual Report, Accomplishments, 2018, 2019 January 19

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Accomplishments in 2018

Public Education
@ Presentations by the VADP Field Director:
— Three Chopt Ruritan Club
— Chatham Rotary Club
Smith Mountain Lake Rotary Club
Monticello Council of Republican Women
— Spotsylvania Republican Women's Club
— Rocktown Libertarians

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— Roanoke Valley Libertarians

— Liberty University Libertarians

— Patrick Henry Libertarians of Richmond
Chesterfield County Libertarians

Fairfax Young Democrats

— Bon Air Interfaith Forum

— Barter Theater Capital Punishment forum
Event display tables by VADP Field Director:
— Conservative Political Action Conference

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— Virginia Federation of Republican Women
annual convention

Candidates Forum sponsored by the Patrick
County Young Professionals

Young Americans for Liberty conference

— Sr. Helen Prejean at Lynchburg College

— Sr. Helen Prejean at Keane Institute in Hampton
Provided death penalty information on VADP
website for a monthly average of 747 visitors.

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Public Policy Advocacy

@ Worked with mental health organizations to

support legislation that would ban executions

of people with severe mental illness.

Assisted interfaith leaders in Chesterfield

County on a petition drive in support of

legislation to exempt people with severe

mental illness from the death penalty.

— Over 800 petition signatures were delivered by
these faith leaders to Sen Glen Sturtevant.

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Media

@ Had an article published about severe mental
illness and the death penalty in the online
publication, Blue View.

Had a Washington Post letter to the editor
published about the Washington Supreme
Court decision overturning the death penalty
and ending capital punishment in Virginia.
Gave background interviews to reporters on the
Ronald Hamilton capital murder trial in Prince
William County to reporters for the Richmond
Times-Dispatch and the Washington Post.
Assisted the following media outlets with a
range of projects: Virginia Mercury, National
Geographic Channel, Oklahoma Watch, The
Guardian (London), The Sun (London), Reef
TV (London), & Agence France-Presse (Paris).

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Organizing

¢@ Met with VADP supporters at five regional
meetings in Northern Virginia, Richmond,
Norfolk, Charlottesville, and Roanoke in both
the spring and autumn.

Worked with the Young Americans for Liberty
President on a VADP “friend-raising” event in
northern Virginia that produced new donors
and identified potential board members.

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VADP supporters meet with Executive Director
Michael Stone at the May 2018
VADP regional meeting in Norfolk.

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