An open letter from a red county Democratic Chair
Like many of you, I am a Democratic Party Chair in a very red rural county (Huron, Ohio) where just getting a Democrat to run for office is almost impossible. But, I look at my grandkids and think I have to do something. Something to begin the necessary conversations to raise awareness of the dangerous times we are in.
Those conversations cannot begin with policies. We have to reach common ground first. Freedom, Justice and Opportunity are values that are difficult to claim as belonging to only one party - they belong to all of us, Democrat, Republican, Unaffiliated. Defining Democrats as having these values is critical to having our views listened to and having credibility.
Why counties in ohio are adopting The Creed?
Why counties in Ohio are adopting The Creed?
"It is just concise, it's our and we are first" said Sharon Sweda, Vice-Chair of Lorain County in Ohio about The Creed from "Democrats 101" by J.M. Purvis. She added "What I like for once, we are on the offense".
Karen Prelipp, Chair of Huron County in Ohio felt that "this [The Creed] should be every American's ethos" and that "it is something that Democrats are hungry for."