Events

Executive Committee Meeting
Our next meeting of the executive committee of the Fairfield County Democrats is Thursday February 21st, 7PM. Meeting is at Headquarters, 118N. Columbus st. in Lancaster.
Event Details  ·  Feb 21, 2019

Events Committee
Meeting at Headquarters 118N Columbus St, Lancaster, to continue planning events calendar for 2019.
Event Details  ·  Feb 28, 2019

Main Street Training Kickoff
Main Street Training Kick Off @ ODP in Columbus (Time TBD)
Event Details  ·  Mar 2, 2019

2nd Wednesday Happy Hour
Save the date for our March Happy/Social hour
Event Details  ·  Mar 13, 2019

Events Committee
Meeting at Headquarters 118N Columbus St, Lancaster, to continue planning events calendar for 2019.
Event Details  ·  Mar 28, 2019

News Articles

Open thread for night owls: Gov't shutdown didn't stop Trump regime from processing drilling permits
E. A. Crunden at Think Progress writes—Trump administration accepted 260 oil and gas drilling applications during shutdown: New data analysis shows that the government accepted 260 oil and gas drilling permit applications during the partial government shutdown last month, even as federal...
News Item  ·  5 DailyKos Headlines  ·  Feb 20, 2019  

Conservative ideology is based in the belief white people are the true victims in American society
Tom Wolfe’s 1987 novel The Bonfire of the Vanities has been called “the quintessential novel of the 80s” in satirizing the racial and class politics of New York City during the era, which saw the city severely divided after multiple incidents where white and black people had different...
News Item  ·  5 DailyKos Headlines  ·  Feb 20, 2019  

Why ‘Miracle Workers’ Killed Bill Maher by Exploding His Penis
God needed to kill somebody.In the universe of Miracle Workers, that is the logical explanation for the TBS comedy’s best joke.“13 Days,” the episode of the Daniel Radcliffe-starring series that aired Tuesday night, finds the series’ petulant man-child God, played by Steve Buscemi, angry...
News Item  ·  Daily Beast  ·  Feb 20, 2019  

Former FBI Director Andrew McCabe: ‘It’s Possible’ Trump Could Be a Russian Asset
Former Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe continued to drop explosive soundbites Tuesday evening, telling CNN anchor Anderson Cooper that he believes “it’s possible” President Trump could be a Russian asset. Continuing his media blitz in support of his new book, The Threat, McCabe appeared...
News Item  ·  Daily Beast  ·  Feb 20, 2019  

Top Trump Advisers Are Still Plotting a Dubious Nuclear Deal With the Saudis, Lawmakers Warn
Top advisers to President Donald Trump plotted to orchestrate a major US national security move—the transfer of sensitive nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia—and potentially profit from the plan. That’s the takeaway from an interim staff report released Tuesday by the House...
News Item  ·  Mother Jones Politics  ·  Feb 19, 2019  

Teachers in West Virginia Went on Strike Again—and Earned a Huge Victory Within Hours
On Monday night, West Virginia teachers’ unions called for a statewide strike. They decided to walk out to protest a sweeping education bill in the state Senate that would have both sent public money to pay for private school costs and established charter schools—a bill educators saw...
News Item  ·  Mother Jones Politics  ·  Feb 19, 2019  

Petulant Trump Shutdown Disaster (PTSD) and the GOP’s Antipathy Toward All Things Government
“It ain’t over till it’s over,” Lawrence Peter Berra famously told us years ago. And if the topic is Republican behavior in the form of hatred for all things government, including targeting public employees for retribution and engineering government shutdowns, Yogi said it for us....
News Item  ·  Plunderbund  ·  Feb 1, 2019  

What Is the NYT Implying When It Suggests Donald Trump Lied About Michael Flynn’s Resignation?
The New York Times put out a big story Tuesday reviewing two years of obstruction-y behavior by Donald Trump toward the Justice Department. Some of the material seems quite incriminating, including a description of a not-previously-reported incident in which Trump allegedly tried to get the U.S....
News Item  ·  Slate  ·  Feb 20, 2019  

Covington Catholic Student in Viral Mall Standoff with Native American Activist Sues Washington Post for $250 Million
The Covington Catholic high school student involved in a standoff with a Native American activist on the national mall last month is suing the Washington Post for defamation for its portrayal, according to the suit, of the MAGA hat-wearing teen as a racist instigator of the ugly interaction that...
News Item  ·  Slate  ·  Feb 20, 2019  

Early-Childhood-Education Initiatives Are Promising More Than They Deliver
Michelle Chen Pre-K programs are failing to adequately support children or staff. The post Early-Childhood-Education Initiatives Are Promising More Than They Deliver appeared first on The Nation.
News Item  ·  The Nation  ·  Feb 19, 2019  

Take Action Now: End Trump’s Phony National Emergency
NationAction Call your representatives and stage an action this week against Trump’s racist border wall. The post Take Action Now: End Trump’s Phony National Emergency appeared first on The Nation.
News Item  ·  The Nation  ·  Feb 19, 2019  

Florida to ban dumping blood off beaches to lure sharks: report
Florida is reportedly moving toward a statewide ban on "chumming," or the practice of fisherman dumping blood into the ocean along beaches to lure sharks.The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Com...
News Item  ·  The Hill  ·  Feb 20, 2019  

Trump nominates Jeffrey Rosen to replace Rosenstein at DOJ
President Trump on Tuesday announced his intention to nominate Jeffrey Rosen, the current deputy Transportation secretary, to be the next deputy attorney general.If confirmed, Rosen would replace Rod Rosenstein, wh...
News Item  ·  The Hill  ·  Feb 20, 2019