Fairfield County Democratic Women's Caucus

08/23/2023

08/10/2023

Good point--we mustn't accept less from those who represent us than those we interact with personally. Our democracy depends on us rebuilding trust and respect with our neighbors and fellow citizens so that we can govern ourselves together, and elect people of character who work for all of us..

"My family taught me well that in our day-to-day lives, respect is earned. Trust is earned. Honor is earned. We form societies based on these things. Humans are social by nature. We’ve built extraordinary civilizations around our capacity to earn each other’s trust and to cooperate with one another to accomplish astounding things.

Those who cheat, lie, steal, con, and manipulate as part of their lust for control over others, have abandoned that social contract. They worship only at the throne of power. They’ve embraced a fundamentally anti-social posture, and wield it like a knife slitting the fabric of society. Beware.

Too often it seems to me these days, we tolerate a debasement in our politics that most of us would never tolerate in our personal lives. I submit that this is a disastrous mistake."

Ohioans, I'm so proud of you. You stood up for yourselves. You refused to let corrupt politicians and lobbyists steal your power. You paid homage to generations before us who won us these rights, and you protected them for future generations. You won a noble and historic victory for democracy in Ohi...

08/09/2023

Tonight! A Democratic (and allies) Happy Hour in Baltimore, with a lot of celebrating the defeat of Issue 1 yesterday!
PLEASE BRING FAMILY AND FRIENDS TONIGHT, AUGUST 9 AT 6:30 PM! Papito's, 101 N. Basil St., Baltimore, Ohio

We have the whole restaurant for drinks and dinner, thanks to locally owned Papito's Kitchen in Baltimore, Ohio! It's an easy drive from anywhere in Fairfield County, and Franklin and Licking County folks have quick commuter routes to get there, too. You'll get to enjoy a wonderful gem-of-a-place owned by people who really care about their community. Plus, um, Creole/Cajun inspired seafood! A fabulous patio area for sunny conversation! Like-minded folx like you who believe in democracy, justice, and equity (you know...the values that our country was supposed to uphold).

Right now, Papito's is allowing us to BYOB, too, as they wait for their liquor license approval (the community is supporting them in this endeavor). Bring your beverage, your family, and your friends to help us support a Fairfield County business.

06/11/2023

Vote NO on Aug. 8! Early voting starts July 11, and you can send in an application for a mail-in ballot and vote by mail.

"But Ohio Republicans moving the goal posts from 44 counties to 88 counties, as they propose to do with State Issue 1 on the ballot Aug. 8, would effectively destroy the ability of grassroots Ohio citizen groups to succeed in getting proposed amendments on the ballot ever again. The only groups that would have even a remote shot of success would be the most wealthy and powerful special interest groups imaginable...
After months of denying that the attempt to roll back majority voter authority and enshrine 41% minority rule over our constitution was tied to abortion, Ohio’s two-faced Secretary of State Frank LaRose was recorded telling Seneca County Republicans this is “100% about keeping a radical pro-abortion amendment out of our constitution.”..
Meanwhile, Ohio Senate President Matt Huffman, also guilty of assaulting the voters, Ohio Constitution, and rule of law with gerrymandering, is now using the state budget process to extort Statehouse lobbyists into supporting this attack on voters.

Huffman has most recently proposed underfunding the August election by only allocating $15 million for it in the state budget, instead of $20 million as was spent on the August 2022 election. This will stretch county boards of election resources thin and hamper their ability to conduct this election, especially in Oho’s most populous counties, which are the most likely to strongly oppose the amendment...
As we’ve seen in scandal after scandal — whether it’s payday lenders, corrupt charter schools, FirstEnergy bribing lawmakers and regulators for a billion-dollar bailout, or an Illinois billionaire trying to rewrite more than 100 years of Ohio Constitutional voter powers — our gerrymandered Statehouse is captured by corrupt, big money special interests."

Ohio Republicans moving the goal posts from 44 counties to 88 counties, as State Issue 1 proposes, would destroy the ability of grassroots Ohio citizen groups to succeed in getting proposed amendments on the ballot ever again, writes Editor David DeWitt.

05/08/2023

For all of us who have wondered how evangelicals could support Trump, here is a powerful piece about a life transformation that includes a political transformation. For all of us whose religious upbringing emphasized that idea that accepting Jesus as one's personal Lord and Savior could transform oneself immediately, this evangelical pastor's writing about how his losing his "wall" protecting his lifelong and inherited conservatism struck me in a way I didn't expect. Of course, as he describes, his wall had been coming apart for years, but George Floyd's killing was the final brick. It is a powerful piece.

"The life that I once knew was gone in a moment.

It was as if everything that I had believed, known, and professed clicked like a gear into a different setting and then fell back into place.

Everything shifted.

I was in a new place. I had a new way of seeing. I was a new person who I did not recognize.

The old life passed away; all things became new.

George Floyd’s story wrecked me, and it wrecked my belief system."

And other confessions that led to the collapse of my Conservatism

03/20/2023

(T) Yes that is the logical outcome of those choices.

03/20/2023

REMINDER: TONIGHT The Golden Rule Peace Ship - https://mailchi.mp/71dca577d7d1/events-this-week-and-next-from-your-fairdems-10367257

03/19/2023

Watch now (2 min) | Cleaning Up Ohio’s Pay to Play Culture

03/19/2023

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03/17/2023

The title of the city's monument was inspired by Robert Hayden's 1962 poem entitled "Runagate Runagate," which references Tubman.