{"id":367049,"date":"2026-10-07T18:14:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T18:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367049\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T18:14:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T18:14:57","slug":"ridgewood-democratic-club-meets-queens-gazette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367049\/","title":{"rendered":"Ridgewood Democratic Club Meets &#8211; Queens Gazette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 22, the Ridgewood Democratic Club held their first in-person meeting since the summer. The meeting discussed the Club\u2019s new initiatives as well as important updates. Speakers included multiple Democratic candidates who will be on voters\u2019 ballots this November including judicial candidates and Democratic nominees for the State Legislature. Candidates included:\u00a0Samantha Kattan (State Assembly, District 37),\u00a0David Orkin (State Assembly, District 38),\u00a0Aber Kawas (State Senate, District 12),\u00a0Michelle McSweeny-Ortiz (Civil Court, 3rd District),\u00a0Janet Ellen Keller (Civil Court, 2nd District),\u00a0Edwin Novillo (NY Supreme Court),\u00a0Jasmine Valle-Bueno (Civil Court),\u00a0Edmond Wong (Civil Court),\u00a0Julie Milner (Civil Court).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jasmine Valle-Bueno\u00a0has been\u00a0a longtime club member and resident of Ridgewood.\u00a0Councilmember\u00a0Phil Wong also spoke to the club.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Club will be holding a Halloween party on October 23.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u2013Phillip Barsamian\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-214381 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/5ibmDLzg.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"720\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo Courtesy of Emma Prinsen\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0On September 22, the Ridgewood Democratic Club held their first in-person meeting since the summer. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On September 22, the Ridgewood Democratic Club held their first in-person meeting since the summer. The meeting discussed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-367049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}