Delaware County Democratic Party

Friends,

Our candidates (so far) for the March primary are:

Don Beer for County Recorder: web site is www.votebeer.com and contact e-mail is rickbeer@votebeer.com

Richard Bird for County Commissioner: {Richard is a write in in March, so we will have to write his name on the ballot for him to be on the November ballot} and his contact e-mail is rwbird@gmail.com

John Hartman for County Commissioner: His contact e-mail is john.hartman@dacor.net

Dave Hogan for State Representative - 67th district: (Approximately Rt 71 and west to the county line) His contact e-mail is dhogan@heidelberg.edu

James Reese for Congress - 12th district: His contact e-mail is jim@reeseforcongress.com

John Ryerson for State Representative - 68th district: (Approximately Rt 71 and East to the county line) and his contact e-mail is jtryerson@gmail.com

Note: the State Representative candidates can be contributed to at NO COST to you ... up to $50 per person, $100 per couple each calendar year ... so you have until Dec 31st to contribute, and get a full tax credit from Ohio when you file your taxes. If you choose not to contribute, then Ohio gets the money.

Dave's address is P.O. Box 59, Powell, Ohio 43065; and John's address is P.O. Box 323, Gambier, Ohio 43022

Friends,

The first day to vote in the 2012 primary is Tuesday January 31st! Your last day to vote is Tuesday March 6th (oddly, also known as Elections day)

There are several ways to make your voice heard at the ballot box.

You can request an absentee ballot now. Go to http://www.co.delaware.oh.us/boe/ and click on absentee ballot application form. Send it in, and our Board of Elections will send you a ballot...simple.
You can stop by our Counties only early voting elections center. The Delaware County Board of Elections Vote Center will be open for early in-person absentee voting Jan. 31 - Mar. 2, 2012. The vote center is located at 149 E. Orange Rd. Delaware, OH and is open 8:00 am to 4:00 pm weekdays. {Note that the elections center is not open the day before the last day to vote}
You can wait until the last day and go to your assigned precinct.

Deadline for voter registration is February 6th ... if you are not registered by then...forget about it, and get registered asap.

Delaware County has over 119,000 registered voters, but there are 175,000 people living in our County. We highly encourage you to ask family and friends if they are registered...and if not, please use this easy web site to register them http://www.co.delaware.oh.us/boe/.

On a side note, this election will be somewhat unique. For the fist primary ever (as far as anyone can recall)..99% of Delaware County will have no issues to vote on. This means that almost everyone who votes, they will have to vote partisan. In addition, for the first time, there are no "challenge" forms to fill out...you just vote. Simple! We need your vote!

"There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - good for you.

But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory ...

Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea - God bless! Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along"

-- Elizabeth Warren

Please continue to support your local party (we get zero funding from State or National parties). Go to our Membership page, or Donate (paypal) link to help with your very important support.

http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/voting_law_changes_in_2012

Executive Summary

Over the past century, our nation expanded the franchise and knocked down myriad barriers to full electoral participation. In 2011, however, that momentum abruptly shifted.

State governments across the country enacted an array of new laws making it harder to register or to vote. Some states require voters to show government-issued photo identification, often of a type that as many as one in ten voters do not have. Other states have cut back on early voting, a hugely popular innovation used by millions of Americans. Two states reversed earlier reforms and once again disenfranchised millions who have past criminal convictions but who are now taxpaying members of the community. Still others made it much more difficult for citizens to register to vote, a prerequisite for voting.

These new restrictions fall most heavily on young, minority, and low-income voters, as well as on voters with disabilities. This wave of changes may sharply tilt the political terrain for the 2012 election. Based on the Brennan Center’s analysis of the 19 laws and two executive actions that passed in 14 states, it is clear that:

These new laws could make it significantly harder for more than five million eligible voters to cast ballots in 2012.
The states that have already cut back on voting rights will provide 171 electoral votes in 2012 – 63 percent of the 270 needed to win the presidency.
Of the 12 likely battleground states, as assessed by an August Los Angeles Times analysis of Gallup polling, five have already cut back on voting rights (and may pass additional restrictive legislation), and two more are currently considering new restrictions.

States have changed their laws so rapidly that no single analysis has assessed the overall impact of such moves. Although it is too early to quantify how the changes will impact voter turnout, they will be a hindrance to many voters at a time when the United States continues to turn out less than two thirds of its eligible citizens in presidential elections and less than half in midterm elections.

This study is the first comprehensive roundup of all state legislative action thus far in 2011 on voting rights, focusing on new laws as well as state legislation that has not yet passed or that failed. This snapshot may soon be incomplete: the second halves of some state legislative sessions have begun.

A very graphic way to show how CEO pay is completely out of control here in the US as compared to other industrialized nations.

Welcome

Welcome To The Delaware County Democratic Party Website!

Your local party's goals are to:

(1) Grow the Party,
(2) Win Elections and,
(3) Restore Delaware County's TWO-Party Political System.

To this end, we invite you to participate in our many annual events, fundraisers, and to generally become an active participant with our political process.

We are the Party most associated with the battle for women's suffrage, a progressive income tax, labor rights, child welfare laws, and civil rights. Over our history, our mission has not changed, nor have our values of wisdom and compassion over wealth and social status.

Notable to this cause, others have joined our battle for equal opportunity.

We are not alone. Groups like Move On.Org (www.moveon.org), People for the American Way (www.pfaw.org), Habitat for Humanity (www.habitat.org), Sierra Club (www.sierraclub.org), The Carter Center (www.cartercenter.org), Doctors Without Borders (www.doctorswithoutborders.org), and the American Civil Liberties Union (www.aclu.org) are all doing their part to help.

Your local Democratic Party relies on 100% local funding through contributions like yours. Please take this moment to voice your support of our goals by contributing to your local Party.


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Friends, Our candidates (so far) for the March primary are: Don Beer for County Recorder: web site is www.votebeer.com and contact e-mail is rickbeer@votebeer.com Richard Bird for County Commissioner: {Richard is a write in in March, so we will have to write his name on the ballot for him to be on the November ballot} and his contact e-mail is rwbird@gmail.com John Hartman for County Commissioner: His contact e-mail is john.hartman@dacor.net Dave Hogan for State Representative - 67th district: (Approximately Rt 71 and west to the county line) His contact e-mail is dhogan@heidelberg.edu James Reese for Congress - 12th district: His contact e-mail is jim@reeseforcongress.com John Ryerson for State Representative - 68th district: (Approximately Rt 71 and East to the county line) and his contact e-mail is jtryerson@gmail.com Note: the State Representative candidates can be contributed to at NO COST to you ... up to $50 per person, $100 per couple each calendar year ... so you have until Dec 31st to contribute, and get a full tax credit from Ohio when you file your taxes. If you choose not to contribute, then Ohio gets the money. Dave's address is P.O. Box 59, Powell, Ohio 43065; and John's address is P.O. Box 323, Gambier, Ohio 43022 Friends, The first day to vote in the 2012 primary is Tuesday January 31st! Your last day to vote is Tuesday March 6th (oddly, also known as Elections day) There are several ways to make your voice heard at the ballot box. You can request an absentee ballot now. Go to http://www.co.delaware.oh.us/boe/ and click on absentee ballot application form. Send it in, and our Board of Elections will send you a ballot...simple. You can stop by our Counties only early voting elections center. The Delaware County Board of Elections Vote Center will be open for early in-person absentee voting Jan. 31 - Mar. 2, 2012. The vote center is located at 149 E. Orange Rd. Delaware, OH and is open 8:00 am to 4:00 pm weekdays. {Note that the elections center is not open the day before the last day to vote} You can wait until the last day and go to your assigned precinct. Deadline for voter registration is February 6th ... if you are not registered by then...forget about it, and get registered asap. Delaware County has over 119,000 registered voters, but there are 175,000 people living in our County. We highly encourage you to ask family and friends if they are registered...and if not, please use this easy web site to register them http://www.co.delaware.oh.us/boe/. On a side note, this election will be somewhat unique. For the fist primary ever (as far as anyone can recall)..99% of Delaware County will have no issues to vote on. This means that almost everyone who votes, they will have to vote partisan. In addition, for the first time, there are no "challenge" forms to fill out...you just vote. Simple! We need your vote! "There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory ... Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea - God bless! Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along" -- Elizabeth Warren Please continue to support your local party (we get zero funding from State or National parties). Go to our Membership page, or Donate (paypal) link to help with your very important support. http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/voting_law_changes_in_2012 Executive Summary Over the past century, our nation expanded the franchise and knocked down myriad barriers to full electoral participation. In 2011, however, that momentum abruptly shifted. State governments across the country enacted an array of new laws making it harder to register or to vote. Some states require voters to show government-issued photo identification, often of a type that as many as one in ten voters do not have. Other states have cut back on early voting, a hugely popular innovation used by millions of Americans. Two states reversed earlier reforms and once again disenfranchised millions who have past criminal convictions but who are now taxpaying members of the community. Still others made it much more difficult for citizens to register to vote, a prerequisite for voting. These new restrictions fall most heavily on young, minority, and low-income voters, as well as on voters with disabilities. This wave of changes may sharply tilt the political terrain for the 2012 election. Based on the Brennan Center’s analysis of the 19 laws and two executive actions that passed in 14 states, it is clear that: These new laws could make it significantly harder for more than five million eligible voters to cast ballots in 2012. The states that have already cut back on voting rights will provide 171 electoral votes in 2012 – 63 percent of the 270 needed to win the presidency. Of the 12 likely battleground states, as assessed by an August Los Angeles Times analysis of Gallup polling, five have already cut back on voting rights (and may pass additional restrictive legislation), and two more are currently considering new restrictions. States have changed their laws so rapidly that no single analysis has assessed the overall impact of such moves. Although it is too early to quantify how the changes will impact voter turnout, they will be a hindrance to many voters at a time when the United States continues to turn out less than two thirds of its eligible citizens in presidential elections and less than half in midterm elections. This study is the first comprehensive roundup of all state legislative action thus far in 2011 on voting rights, focusing on new laws as well as state legislation that has not yet passed or that failed. This snapshot may soon be incomplete: the second halves of some state legislative sessions have begun. A very graphic way to show how CEO pay is completely out of control here in the US as compared to other industrialized nations. Welcome Welcome To The Delaware County Democratic Party Website! Your local party's goals are to: (1) Grow the Party, (2) Win Elections and, (3) Restore Delaware County's TWO-Party Political System. To this end, we invite you to participate in our many annual events, fundraisers, and to generally become an active participant with our political process. We are the Party most associated with the battle for women's suffrage, a progressive income tax, labor rights, child welfare laws, and civil rights. Over our history, our mission has not changed, nor have our values of wisdom and compassion over wealth and social status. Notable to this cause, others have joined our battle for equal opportunity. We are not alone. Groups like Move On.Org (www.moveon.org), People for the American Way (www.pfaw.org), Habitat for Humanity (www.habitat.org), Sierra Club (www.sierraclub.org), The Carter Center (www.cartercenter.org), Doctors Without Borders (www.doctorswithoutborders.org), and the American Civil Liberties Union (www.aclu.org) are all doing their part to help. Your local Democratic Party relies on 100% local funding through contributions like yours. Please take this moment to voice your support of our goals by contributing to your local Party.