Summit County Democratic Party Valentine's Day Fundraiser

Celebrate Valentine's Day with the Summit County Democratic Party!

Please join us for the 36th Annual Valentine's Day Party on Monday, February 13 from 4:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m at Todaro's Party Center in Akron. Special guests include U.S. Representatives Tim Ryan, Betty Sutton and Marcia Fudge.

With a special musical performance by Zach, this evening will prove to be unforgettable!

2012 Election

The effort to elect local candidates throughout Summit County and re-elect both Sen. Sherrod Brown and President Obama is already well underway in the battleground state of Ohio.

Local governments directly impact the daily lives of their residents. In Summit County, we are fielding candidates for local and statewide offices that are counting on your support. Please help us ensure Democratic candidate victories up and down the ballot this year. From President Obama all the way down to Probate Court Judge Candidate Elinore Marsh Stormer, don’t forget to vote Democratic!

About Senator Sherrod Brown:

In 2006, Ohio voters elected Sherrod Brown to the United States Senate with one of the largest margins over an incumbent in U.S. history. He joined committees that are key to Ohio’s future: Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP); Veterans’ Affairs and the Select Committee on Ethics; powerful Appropriations Committee, the first Democrat from Ohio to serve on it since the 1890s.

Since his election, Sherrod has been working on behalf of Ohioans. While many in Washington have simply gone along with corporate-backed free trade deals that have devastated Ohio’s manufacturing sector and sent good-paying American jobs overseas, Sherrod has been a tireless advocate for policies that help workers and their families.

In his first few years in the Senate, he has played a key role in rewriting our nation’s farm and nutrition laws. He authored innovative new programs to encourage local food production and dampen wild swings in the market for farmers – the Ohio and National Corn Growers Association named him their Legislator of the Year. On the Banking Committee, he was an early proponent for addressing the crisis in our housing markets that began by devastating neighborhoods throughout Ohio and ended up causing a meltdown throughout the world’s credit markets.

Sherrod has been a leader on health care issues throughout his service in Congress. Americans should not live just one illness or pink slip away from bankruptcy because of out-of-control health care costs and insurance policy loopholes — they should have access to the same kind of health insurance that Members of Congress have.

About President Barack Obama:

As President, Barack Obama has dedicated himself to putting Americans back to work and restoring economic security to middle-class families. He’s been driven by the basic values that make our country great: America prospers when we're all in it together, when hard work pays off and responsibility is rewarded, and when everyone—from Main Street to Wall Street—does their fair share and plays by the same rules. In particular, the 2012 national re-election campaign for President Barack Obama will be only as strong as our volunteers—folks like you from all 50 states who are willing to lend their time and their talents to keep changing our country for the better. Are you ready to help shape the campaign in your community? Take the first step by signing up now.

HB319 Repeal Status on Gerrymandered Maps

In October, we set out with thousands of supporters to give Ohioans a voice in the redistricting process, because Republicans did not give them that voice. As dedicated volunteers stood out in the cold collecting signatures and talking to voters over six weeks time, the debate over redistricting continued and Republicans were forced to defend the map they rushed through in just 48 hours after drawing it behind closed doors.

We thank you for your help in this effort and for all that you have done in the past year. The new map is not anything to be thrilled about, but it does make some districts a little more competitive, it does increase minority influence and it does hold together many communities that were sliced apart under the Republicans’ original plan. Were it not for your efforts, none of these changes would have been possible.

We know very well that Ohioans deserved a much fairer Congressional map than this. And the passage of this map in no way erases alarming concerns with the redistricting process, nor will it restore public trust. Democrats and others will continue to seek answers about the secretive and unethical process that was used to create the state legislative and Congressional maps.

Ohioans deserve to know that their votes matter. They deserve fair and competitive elections, the ability to hold politicians of all Parties accountable and the chance to elect good leaders who will serve the public interest by working together to create jobs.

The events of 2011 make clearer than ever that Democrats and Republicans need to come together to support a constitutional amendment to change the way we re-draw Congressional and state legislative districts. Voters deserve a redistricting process that is fair and open. We challenge Republicans to work with us to achieve that outcome by supporting a constitutional amendment on redistricting and putting that amendment before the voters.

Fight the Voter Suppression Bill! Help Repeal HB194!

Thank you everyone who signed or helped to circulate and the petition to repeal HB194! We accrued enough valid signatures to place this issue on the November 2012 ballot! Congratulations on all of your hard work - we will need your efforts to pass this important issue next year. Sign up to volunteer by calling 330-434-1311 today!!