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  • Election Day Election Day is two weeks away.  Early voting has been going on for two weeks. Several people have asked me who are our candidates. Sadly, in many parts of the County including my township and school district, there are none. I’ll talk more about that below. One positive note is that we have a couple of people who are Democrats running effectively unopposed. Both are running in races in which there are the same number of candidates on the ballot as there are positions being elected. Another positive note is that we have four outstanding candidates running in contested races. Emily Mason and Jara Bonner are running for the Milford Board of Education. There are eight candidates for three seats. All the current conservative tropes have surfaced in this race from “critical race theory” (which is not taught in Ohio public school) to “American exceptionalism.” If you vote in the Milford school district, vote for these two women who care more about the children than ideological catchphrases. Please also do not vote for anyone else. This is a field race, meaning that all candidates are running against each other and the candidates with the highest vote totals are elected. In a field race, even one like Milford, a vote for any other candidate helps put them ahead of Emily and Jara. Chad Quick is one of five candidates in a field race for two seats on the Union Township Board of Township Trustees. Chad is a former United States Marine and is currently a chaplain with TriHealth.  His opponents include two incumbents, who never met a developer they didn’t love, and John Becker.  Becker was term-limited out of the Ohio House of Representatives, where he failed to introduce any legislation that passed in eight years and lost the Republican primary for county commissioner last year.  Becker’s still looking for a position that will give him a salary and benefits paid for by taxpayers. Please don’t vote for any of the four Republicans. If you live in Union Township, vote only for Chad Quick for township trustee. Last, but certainly not least, Cheryl Richards (who produces this newsletter) is running in a surprisingly crowded field for Moscow Village Council. Cheryl is a long-time resident of Moscow and cares deeply about the village. If you vote in Moscow, please vote for Cheryl Richards for village council and please don’t vote for anyone else. Those of us who don’t live in the Milford School District, Union Township, Moscow, the West Clermont School District (uncontested), or Williamsburg Township (uncontested) have no one to vote for. As I mentioned above, that leaves most of us with no one to vote for. This is an ongoing problem. Every election, we see many offices on our ballots for which there is no Democrat running. People need to step up! Even without anyone to vote for, I still encourage you to vote. While no one keeps a record of who you voted for, the Secretary of State and the Board of Elections do keep a public record of which elections you vote in. This is important data for the Democratic Party to identify people highly likely to vote. Pull a ballot, even if you send it through the scanner with no votes cast. One person who is stepping up is Brian Flick. Brian, a local attorney, recently announced he will be a candidate next year for the Ohio House of Representatives from the newly gerrymandered District 62.  District 62, as currently drawn, covers Milford, Loveland, Miami Township, Union Township, and Stonelick Township. His opponent will likely be current District 65 Representative Jean Schmidt, who ran her last race with money from disgraced former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder. That illustrates the problem. Whether you live in District 62 or not, please support Brian. We need to get honesty and integrity back into Ohio state government. There are races next year for which we still need candidates. Ohio House District 63, as currently drawn, covers all of Clermont County not in District 62 and a large part of Brown County. Incumbent Republican County Commissioner David Painter is expected to seek re-election next year. We cannot allow Republicans to run either of those races unopposed! Vaccines Save Lives Vaccines save lives is a simple statement that is indisputably true. However, that message is getting lost in the right-wing ideological noise around Covid 19. Longtime CCDP supporter Carl Zugelter has paid for “Vaccines Save Lives” yard signs.  There are two up on my road. If you want one, CCDP has some. Just let me know, and we’ll get you one. Stay safe.

  • We’re all familiar with the lie that trump won the 2020 election.  Even though trump won Ohio, a recently released analysis which concluded that the actual vote for trump was undercounted in every one of Ohio’s 88 counties.  While trump won 74,563 votes (67.35%) in Clermont County, this analysis claims that there were actually 83,663 legitimate votes cast for him.  The basis for these conclusions is opaque, but this analysis has been taken to heart by some local Republicans. While reports keep coming out showing that we were close last January a coup to keep trump in power, he is out of power.  The Republican “Super Ninja” audit of ballots in Maricopa County, Arizona concluded that the “actual” vote mirrored the official returns. trump’s lie about the 2020 election (one among tens of thousands of lies he has told) is nothing more than a psychological defense mechanism for trump and his hardcore supporters, right?  No. The lie is being used as the justification for dramatic changes in election law. Some states, like Georgia, have changed election procedures so that final votes counts will no longer be determined by non-partisan or bi-partisan bodies. Instead, the final results will be determined by bodies which currently have Republican majorities. Some states are considering legislation to give the state legislature the power to assign the state’s presidential electoral votes to a candidate, making the state’s popular vote effectively only advisory. We have not yet gone that far in Ohio. So far, the only significant change to Ohio election law that has been signed into law is Senate Bill 80.  For decades, judicial candidates in Ohio have run on a “non-partisan” ballot. That meant that, in the general election, no party identification appeared with the candidates’ names on the general election ballots. That is now history, for some judicial races. Starting next year, candidates for Supreme Court and the Ohio Courts of Appeals will be designated as Democrat or Republican on the ballot. However, lower court elections (Common Pleas Court General Division, Probate Court, Juvenile Court, Domestic Relations Court, Municipal Court, County Court) will continue to be non-partisan. Why was this change made? Because Republicans believe, perhaps with some justification, that the non-partisan ballot allowed us to put three justices on the Ohio Supreme Court. The most common theory is that voters were confused by names, and the Republicans did a bad job informing their voters whom to vote for. A more likely scenario, in my opinion, is that voters, confronted with races in which there apparently were not Democrats or Republicans running, decided those races must not matter and did not vote for the judicial candidates. Two potentially significant bills have been introduced in the Ohio House of Representatives: H.B. 294 and H.B. 387. While not identical, both bills seek to accomplish the same things: reduce or eliminate “no fault” mail-in voting (“no fault” means voting by mail without having to show a reason why you cannot vote in person), shorten the period for early in-person voting, eliminate ballot drop boxes, and require all voters to show a state-issued photo ID. Both bills are currently in committee. People with whom I have spoken who follow the General Assembly expect legislation to pass and be signed into law incorporating most of these restrictions on voting before the 2022 election. Will there be other legislation intended to tilt the field in favor of the Republicans even more? Possibly.  Other states are doing it and it appears to be a national Republican priority, justified by the lie that our elections are tainted by fraud. Should we speak out and tell our representatives we don’t want these bills to be enacted? Of course. Will that have any effect? No. These restrictions on voting, and possibly others, will become law. Republicans know that their share of the voting population is decreasing every year.  Changing the rules to overcome the fact that they have lost the majority of voters is an existential issue for Republicans in a very literal sense. Our challenge will be to elect Democrats despite the tilted field. Stay safe.

  • The November 2021 general election is here.  Early voting starts in two weeks, on October 5, 2021.  We have candidates in contested races in Union Township, the Milford school district, and the Village of Moscow. If you live in any of those jurisdictions, you must vote, and vote wisely.  Also, the Republican plan for re-districting the Ohio House and Senate has been revealed.  This raises the stakes in the 2022 election. November 2021 Candidates Chad Quick, a minister and former United States Marine, is running for Union Township Trustee in a five-way race for two seats. The other four candidates are Republicans. There are two incumbents plus failed state house candidate Joe Dills and failed county commission candidate John Becker. Chad has a genuine chance to win because the Republican vote is likely to split. The two candidates with the highest vote totals win, and Union Township voters can vote for two candidates. You should only vote for one: Chad Quick. Please don’t give a vote to any of the Republicans running against him. Consider donating to Chad’s campaign at electchadquick.com Jara Bonner and Emily Mason are running in an eight-candidate race for three seats on the Milford School Board. Along with the recurring issue of funding improved school buildings, far right bogeymen such as critical race theory, “wokeness,” and mask mandates are infecting this race. One candidate says he wants Milford children to be taught “American Exceptionalism.” Educating our children is too important to fall under right wing lunatic control. Milford voters can vote for three school board candidates. You should only vote for two: Jara Bonner and Emily Mason. Consider donating to Emily at electemilymason.com and Jara at jaraformilford.com Cheryl Richards (who produces this newsletter) is one of six people running for four seats on the Moscow Village Council. Moscow has relatively few registered voters, so a handful of votes will likely make the difference. Again, if you are a Moscow voter, don’t cast four votes, three of which will go to Cheryl’s opponents. Only cast one vote for Cheryl Richards.  A 2021 Ballot Issue There is an interesting issue on the ballot this November. Voters in Owensville will vote on whether to dissolve their village, called a “surrender of corporate powers.”  Dissolving villages has become a right-wing agenda item in the county in recent years. Voters in Amelia and Newtonsville have dissolved their villages. Proponents argue that dissolution removes a layer of government and reduces taxes. As residents of the place formerly the Village of Amelia have learned, it isn’t that simple. Dissolving a village does not mean that the village’s debts and other contractual obligations disappear. Those debts still must be paid off, and village taxes continue until they are. Dissolution means that the territory of the former village becomes part of the surrounding township. In Amelia’s case, this meant that part of what had been Amelia joined Batavia Township and part joined Pierce Township.  That has raised issues like reconciling the different zoning which had been in effect in Amelia with the zoning which is in effect in the two townships. Former Amelia residents are now subject to Batavia Township or Pierce Township taxes. Owensville voters should do their own research to learn the consequences of dissolving the village. As Amelia showed, campaign rhetoric on this issue can be misleading. Municipal Court Clerk Despite our efforts, no Democrat is running for Clerk of the Clermont County Municipal Court, one of the highest paying government jobs in the County. Every election, I get calls and e-mail from Democratic voters asking why there are so many offices for which the Republicans are running unopposed. While there are more than 100 offices on the ballot across the county this year, fewer than ten Democrats are running. We can’t elect Democrats if Democrats don’t run. We can’t force people to run for office. People must make that decision themselves. So far, only a few admirable Democrats have. Until that changes, nothing else will change. Of the three Republicans running for Municipal Court Clerk, one is the incumbent, former Clermont County Republican Chair Tim Rudd. To say Mr. Rudd has not performed well in office is an understatement. He needs to be voted out. The Party is not taking any position in this race. My personal choice is Ralph Vilardo, Jr. I have talked with Mr. Vilardo. A big point in his favor is that he says the office of Municipal Court Clerk should be abolished, that Clermont County only needs one elected Clerk of Court, not the two we currently have. He’s right. Re-Districting Ohio is drawing new legislative districts that will take effect for the 2022 election. The General Assembly districts are being drawn by a commission consisting of the Governor, Secretary of State, State Auditor, and members from each party in the Ohio Senate and House. That means five Republicans and two Democrats. The new General Assembly districts proposed by this Republican-dominated commission will, based on past voting, continue the Republican super-majority in both chambers. Despite intense criticism from most people who have spoken at the public hearings on this plan, Republicans justify this plan as “fair.”  They argue that Republicans have already won super-majority control of the General Assembly, have won all state executive offices, hold a majority on the Ohio Supreme Court, and their presidential candidate carried Ohio in 2016 and 2020. That past success, they argue, means Republicans have “earned” an entitlement to perpetuate their super-majority. While there is widespread opposition to the Republican re-districting plan, Republicans have the power. Their plan, or something very close to it, will probably have been adopted by the time you read this. Last week I heard a lawyer associated with ODP call the Republican plan “wildly” violative of our state constitution and in violation of the Federal Voting Rights Act. There will be litigation. Challenges to the Republican map will go directly to the Ohio Supreme Court. Republicans hold a four to three majority on the […]

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Join online by clicking the Donation button below or join by mailing a check made out to CCDP PO Box 475, Batavia, Ohio 45103   CLERMONT COUNTY DEMOCRATIC CLUB DIRECTORY Below is a listing of Democratic groups in Clermont County. Right now a lot of upcoming meetings are cancelled due to the concerns about COVID19. Remember this is temporary. We will get through this! Click on the name of each club and it will take you to their website or Facebook page with updated information about meetings. Some groups are conducting virtual meetings while others are looking to outside locations. Quin-T Democrat Club Democracy In Action West Clermont Democrats Clermont County Young Democrats The Goshen Democratic Club Drinking Liberally Clermont County Democratic Party Central Committee Please contact Patty Lawrence, Central Committee Chair at: p.lawrence@fuse.net for more information. 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