Our August 27 local candidate forum is next week!

Send question ideas for City Council and School Board candidates to ADC Officer At Large Bryan Marten at bdmarten@gmail.com for consideration for use during the forum!

On July 6 we told you to save the date and time for our local candidate forum, August 27 @ 7pm, and another forum focused on local ballot measures on September 3.  Now here’s the promised details! 

The meeting starts on Zoom Aug 27 at 7pm, open to the general public.  Zoom link to be shared via this list next week!  City Council candidates will begin at 7:30pm to help minimize conflict with the 3 elementary schools which chose the same date for back to school night.  All 3 schools announced they will finish at 7pm.  School Board candidates will start around 8:30pm.  At around 9:30pm the closed session begins without candidates, for members in good standing to discuss the candidates and the online vote to endorse begins! Voting will close late in the evening of August 28.

At 7pm, for the first 30 minutes, we’ll talk about the launch of Albany Scanner, preview the September 3rd forum, and provide more opportunities to submit questions for candidates! 

Albany Scanner wrote an article about this forum!

https://www.albanyscanner.com/2026/08/13/city/albany-democratic-club-candidate-forum-aug-27/
The original article said the first candidates begin at 7pm but we have since pushed that back to 7:30pm as explained above.

Want to vote to endorse?  If your annual ADC membership has lapsed, it’s not too late to renew! You can renew here, up until the voting begins on Aug 27th:

https://www.albanydemocraticclub.org/membership

New member?  According to our bylaws new members can participate in Club business and vote after 45 days.  For this Aug 27 forum that was July 13.

Did you pay for a Family membership?  Email Treasurer Gabi Baty gabibaty@gmail.com with names and email addresses of those family members to ensure they are in the system!

We plan to record the candidate portion of the meeting and post it to the Club’s Youtube channel shortly afterwards!  

As with previous election seasons, Club officers involved in campaigns are not involved in organizing the candidate forum.  Officers Bryan Marten and Gabi Baty are organizing it this year.