3HRS IN UNDER 3MINS! Here are Council meeting highlights: proclamations, school board $/election reform, waterfront bathrooms(!), Duke St land use early stage planning you’ll 💕, SRO MOU, + GO ALEX strategic planning w some nice features for all ages (e-bike incentives + free Metro bus for students)!

#alxskeets I keep accidentally not posting here—do you want to know that I’m at NOVA Labor? See the ALX little league grazing board alluring enough to hit up after an 11.5 hour public hearing? Know what books I’m reading? This ain’t meta—do you want meta content?

Sat AM, joined DRBA and Councilman Chapman in celebrating 2 small businesses on the Ave! Investing in your dream, signing a lease, offering up yourself up to the community with your livelihood at stake—it’s no small thing. Congrats to Lifestyle + Performance Fitness & the Department of Beer + Wine!

It’s almost midnight on the first day of the work week—so let’s talk a terrible lasagna, scheduling overload, hipster Hotmail addresses, and why we may need to send a search party for the bottom of Sandy’s inbox! Goodnight, Alexandria—can’t wait for tomorrow!

Here’s Sandy’s morning brag about ALX’s board members and commissioners, in general—but also specifically Marta Schantz and the Environmental Policy Commission, who held their retreat today. The expertise in that room, being put to work for our city in the name of altruism and civic duty—remarkable!

Thank you, Alexandrians—this is the greatest city in the world because YOU are here! I can’t wait to get to work for you on Alexandria City Council! Let’s go! - Sandy

LET’S GOOOOOOO! Rep Beyer, Sen EBP, Ldr Herring, Del McPike, Jon and Sandy and the whole Dem team are out this morning, knocking doors and talking to voters! We’re voting YES! For the amendment—and for housing affordability, public schools, climate action, protecting our immigrant + LGBTQ neighbors!

✅ IAFF LOCAL 2141 FIREFIGHTERS ENDORSE SANDY ✅ We are proud to stand with firefighters for fair wages, safe working conditions, livable hours, and affordable housing for working people! Thanks, firefighters! Proud to have you on the team!

We’re focused up, eyes on the prize, hydrated, and ready to go over here at Sandy for the City! Onward! LFG! Come out and knock with us—9am on Sat @ Evening Star w Beyer, EBP, Herring + McPike! Sun @ 9:15 with Beyer + Wes Moore! Or sign up to work the polls at AlexDEMS.org

SOMEONE SHOULD REALLY DO SOMETHING! (psssst: we are all someone) Choose your own knocking adventure—and also come to HiFi on Monday after work! What started as just a fundraiser has turned into a party. COME! RSVP for headcount: secure.actblue.com/donate/sipan...

It’s the first day of weekend voting! And mannnn those I Voted stickers look good on you! If you weren’t one of the 1,000+ people who voted today vote early tomorrow, Sun 11AM-3PM! You know what to do, team! For complete early voting hours, check the link in bio or visit sandyforthecity.com/vote

You’re resilient and compassionate and turn problems into progress, Alexandria. At the end of this day, I’m exhausted and inspired—and THIS IS THE WHY. ***There is so much to do!*** Vote by 4/21 so we can get to work!

It’s late enough in the day, right?…right?

❌👑 NO KINGS IN THE USA 🇺🇸

Let’s talk anti-ICE advocacy and how we bring people to the table to get what we want.

Alexandria’s students are bright, hopeful, and optimistic—and public schools are the place where they all belong, where their educators and families come together with a shared goal. As stewards of their future, let’s value education and make ALX a place they can afford to live their whole lives.

YIMBYs of NOVA proudly endorse @sandymarks.bsky.social for Council! Sandy understands the shortage at the root of our housing crisis, & that building homes is a key part of the solution Our Alx members voted overwhelmingly to endorse her, & are excited to elect another housing champion to Council

✅ NOVA LABOR ENDORSES SANDY ✅ Sandy is beyond thrilled to have earned the trust and endorsement of the Northern Virginia Federation of Labor. She believes that safe working conditions, fair wages, and unionization aren’t just the right thing to do—they are civil rights.

✅MOMS DEMAND ACTION AWARDS GUN SENSE DISTINCTION TO SANDY✅ Sandy joined Moms Demand Action in 2013 and is an unabashed gun violence prevention candidate. The Sandy for the City team encourages all Alexandrians to text READY to 644-33 and add your talent to the movement!

On Sunday, we’re gathering friends and neighbors to raise a glass to the future of ALX—and we’d love for you to be there. Kathie Hoekstra and Kelly Johnson are co-hosting! Campaigns are built when good people coming together and say, “I’m in.” Can you make it? secure.actblue.com/donate/raise...

🔥SANDY’S MORNING WAS ON FIRE!🔥 Spent the a.m. with Plumbers & Gasfitters UA Local 5 at the training facility + learned a thing or 12! They’re training the future & lighting the way to highly skilled, good paying jobs w benefits and the kind of supportive community we want for our kids + ourselves.

YES, EISENHOWER AVE! What’s the Sandy for the City Team doing on any given day? We’re knock knock knocking with @fairelectionsva and having a great time doing it! Come out with Sandy one of these days: sandyforthecity.com [link in bio]

💐 Happy International Women’s Day! 🌺 Empowered women empower women, and we’re out supporting Sandy for City Council and YES! on the constitutional referendum to celebrate! Early voting is OPEN NOW! Vote by 4/21!

✅DEL MCPIKE ENDORSES SANDY✅ “I endorse Sandy because her values are Alexandria values. On climate change, abortion access, housing & standing up for everyone in our community, she is the only candidate who will take meaningful action on the issues that matter most to Alexandrians.” - Del McPike, HD5

Sandy Marks wants to keep Alexandria City Council moving forward

It’s official! Democratic nominee’s paperwork is filed! Onward to the 4/21 election! (Vote early to get yourself off the comms lists quick! EV starts 3/6!) 🇺🇸

G’night, y’all. See you on the other side!

BLUESKY, IT'S TIME TO DECIDE! We've been sharing some clips from a recent candidate forum so you can hear from me—in my own words, unscripted—where I stand on key issues. Here is where I stand on us: you and me. Tomorrow is Election Day—let's do this, together!

✅SEN BENNETT-PARKER ENDORSES SANDY✅ “Sandy shows up for our community. From advocating for gun violence prevention to standing up for our reproductive rights to fighting for equity and access for all Alexandrians, I trust Sandy to make a meaningful difference on City Council.”@ebpforva.bsky.social

SANDY'S POSITION ON ICE: Sandy is committed—unequivocally—to protecting our immigrant neighbors from abuse by the federal government. That means ICE OUT OF ALEXANDRIA. Listen for more:

DRBA asked: If you had a magic wand, what would you change about Alexandria? Sandy's answer? EASY: Get us to net zero NOW. Sandy's got your back on climate resilience, Alexandria.

✅ @sarahbagley.bsky.social ENDORSES SANDY✅ “Through her...work with the ADC... Sandy has heard from candidates, council members, precinct captains, and citizens just what is and isn’t working in Alexandria and how we can do better. It is that listening skill set that Sandy will bring to Council.” 🚴‍♂️

TREAT YO SELF to Galentine's Day with Sandy for the City—Sat, 2/14, 10am @ Stardust Vintage + Gift! Celebrating local, women-owned businesses! Amy Eggers hosting @ Stardust, sweets by Sloane Hill of Rolling Sloanes + fruit from Erin White & Mindy's Catering, bubs by Catherine Babin of Planet Wine.

At AlexDEMS last night, standing at *Jon’s* podium to deliver a candidate announcement at the Black History Month meeting! The real honor was hearing Marie Bradby tell her family’s story—and seeing her in a Sandy for the City sticker!

Over/under on how many people DMed this to @beckyhammer.bsky.social?

✅DEL PEPPER ENDORSES SANDY✅ Former Councilwoman, Living Legend, and Alexandria fixture Del Pepper is on Team Sandy! Folks, there is a reason why this woman has a whole building named after her! We are so grateful for her work and support!

Alllllright. I'm over here dropping all kinds of campaign info—this is not how I intended to jump into Bluesky. Someone talk nerdy to me: Star Trek anything and general sci-fi reads/watches, please.

✅ SEN. SADDAM SALIM ENDORSES SANDY ✅ What I love about the folks endorsing me is that, of course we align on policy—but also they are full humans, and we connect outside of our prescribed lanes, supporting each other's work year-round, and respecting the paths we took to get here. So much respect.

Hellloooooo, Cameron Station! Live in CS? CS curious? Meet me at Sharon Wilkinson's place Saturday @ 4pm—Cindy Courville co-hosting. (Fun fact: They're are retired ambassadors, oppose Trump w NatSec Leaders for America—and still out-precinct captain everyone!) RSVP secure.actblue.com/donate/camer...

Taken a look at the proposed congressional map yet? Let me VPAP so you don't have to.

Still on Tuesday night's kick-off over here: standing room-only, old friends and brand new ones, teens and toddlers—and substantive conversation about our shared values and goals for Alexandria.

🥂We're still thinking about Tuesday night's kick-off event! Thank you to Jen Walker, Darrlynn Franklin, and Mario Velasquez for using your voices to speak up for Sandy🥂 More at: sandyforthecity.com LFG!

✅ DEL. ALFONSO LOPEZ ENDORSES SANDY ✅ Honored to have *you* on the team, Delegate @lopez4va.bsky.social! You make Alexandria proud! More endorsements coming soon to sandyforthecity.com

Come out tonight, have a drink, and hear about my mattocks-forward agenda:

You win! Requesting permission to enter @beckyhammer.bsky.social‘s sovereign territory. #alxskeets