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SUMMARY:Community & Connection with OC DEMS!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Community & Connection Night at TRIPELROOT in Zeeland. We invite you to join us around or after 6:00 PM as you’re available\, before their lights go off at 9:00pm. We’re looking forward to this fantastic opportunity to meet fellow Democrats\, make new friends\, reconnect with old friends\, hear your thoughts\, and enjoy some great conversations (and great beer)! This event is open to everyone—bring your friends\, neighbors\, and anyone curious about our work in Ottawa County.
URL:https://kentdems.com/event/community-connection-with-oc-dems/
LOCATION:Tripelroot Brewery\, 146 East Main Avenue\, Zeeland\, Michigan\, 49464\, United States
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SUMMARY:Precinct Captain Training - Voter Registration
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nAttention Precinct Captains! \nWe are building out our Democracy Toolbox\, so sign up to attend this training session to develop your Voter Registration Skills.  Voting has been under attack for many years\, and it’s up to us to fight back!
URL:https://kentdems.com/event/precinct-captain-training-voter-registration/
LOCATION:Kent Dem Headquarters\, 301 Fuller Ave. NE\, Grand Rapids\, MI\, 49503\, United States
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SUMMARY:State of the State Watch Party
DESCRIPTION:Put on your best PINK OUTFIT and join us at the OCDP offices for Gov. Whitmer’s State of the State address! \nGovernor Gretchen Whitmer will deliver her seventh State of the State Address on Wednesday Feb. 26\, 2025. During her 2025 State of the State Address\, Governor Whitmer will lay out her plans to continue building on the historic accomplishments of her first six years in office. \nWe’ll have drinks and snacks and pink lemonade!  BYOPB (Bring your own pink boa!) \nTo quote Big Gretch – Wear Pink & Get S*&% Done! \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://kentdems.com/event/state-of-the-state-watch-party/
LOCATION:Ottawa County Democratic Party Offices HQ\, 400 136 Ave.\, Holland\, MI\, 49424\, United States
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SUMMARY:2025 Labor-Educator Chili SMACKDOWN
DESCRIPTION: \n **ATTENTION CHILI CHAMPIONS & HEAT SEEKERS!**\n\n\nThink your chili recipe makes Gordon Ramsay’s creations look like baby food? Got taste buds of steel and opinions to match? Perfect – because we’re about to turn up the heat at the most epic culinary showdown of 2025! \n\nIntroducing the L.E.C. Chili Smackdown\, where labor unions battle it out for the spiciest bragging rights in town! (Because let’s face it\, Labor Enjoys Chili!) \nWhen: Thursday\, February 27th\, 5:30-7:30 PM EST\nWhere: Teamsters Local 406 (3315 Eastern Ave SE\, Wyoming\, MI)\nWhat: A taste-bud-tingling throwdown of epic proportions!\n\nThink you’ve got the recipe to rule them all? Sign up now! at:\nhttps://givebutter.com/LEC-Chili\n\nHERE’S THE SIZZLE:\n\n$50 to enter your liquid gold (multiple entries welcome\, you kitchen maverick!)\nEveryone gets to judge (yes\, EVERYONE – democracy in action\, baby!) Invite your members\, families\, and friends to join us as honorary judges. Ballots are only $10 each (cheaper than a trip to McDonalds).\nWant extra votes? $10 per additional ballot (because some opinions need to be heard twice – if Citizens United can do it… so can you)\nAll-you-can-eat chili feast + sides + accompaniments + soft drinks (or BYOSS – Bring Your Own Special Sauce )\nTrash-talk is absolutely allowed and encouraged. Goad your opponents into making bad decisions. No chili or chef is safe. And for the whimps who sit this out- prepare for an unrelenting barage of trash-talk coming your way.\n\n\nWHY ENTER?\nBecause somewhere in your union\, there’s a chili master waiting to be crowned. Don’t let your local be the one we have to tease for chickening out! (Yes\, we absolutely will do that. With pleasure.)\n\n\nCan’t cook to save your life? No worries\, you beautiful disaster! Come judge\, feast\, and be merry instead. We welcome all chili enthusiasts\, even the culinarily challenged!\n\n\nTHE GLORY:\n\nOfficial 2025 Chili Smackdown Champion title\nEpic prizes (because winning isn’t enough)\nEndless bragging rights (priceless!)\nThe satisfaction of making your fellow union members cry (tears of joy\, of course!)\n\nReady to bring the heat? Get your tickets or register your chili and show us what you’re made of! NOW at:\nhttps://givebutter.com/LEC-Chili\n\nRemember: In the world of chili\, there are those who dare\, and those who wish they dared. Which one are you?\n\nGAME ON!\n\n\nP.S. To all the locals thinking of sitting this one out – your excuses better be as hot as the chili you’re not making! 
URL:https://kentdems.com/event/2025-labor-educator-chili-smackdown/
LOCATION:Teamsters Local 406\, 3315 Eastern Ave. SE\, Wyoming\, MI\, 49508\, United States
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