Events

Carroll Festival Parade
Join the Good for Fairfield County contingent in the Carroll Community Festival Parade! Line up at 8:30 for a 10 a.m. start in downtown Carroll. Hand out stickers, literature, and candy to help turn Fairfield County blue!
Event Details  ·  Aug 18, 2018

Sherrod Brown in Fairfield County
Come on out to Scott Wharton’s farm in Amanda on August 29 and spend some time with Senator Sherrod Brown. Sherrod’s standing up for all of us; let’s stand up for him!
Event Details  ·  Aug 29, 2018

Pickerington Labor Day Parade
Join the Good for Fairfield County contingent in the Pickerington Labor Day Parade! Line up at 8:30 for a 10 a.m. start at Pickerington Central High School . Hand out stickers, literature, and candy to help turn Fairfield County blue!
Event Details  ·  Sep 3, 2018

Blue Wave Cocktail Reception
Save the date for a fun evening with fellow Democrats
Event Details  ·  Sep 4, 2018

Executive Committee Meeting
Our next meeting of the executive committee of the Fairfield County Democrats is Thursday September 20th, 7PM. Meeting is at Headquarters, 118N. Columbus st. in Lancaster.
Event Details  ·  Sep 20, 2018

News Articles

Fracking use of water has increased 770% over the last 5 years—and that's just the beginning
A new study out of Duke University shows that fracking operations in the United States have boomed in their use of water over the past five years. The researchers found that between 2011 and 2016, the amount of water being used, per well, increased 770 percent. On top of that—during the same...
News Item  ·  5 DailyKos Headlines  ·  Aug 18, 2018  

It's no coincidence that ICE agents are ramping up cruelty as Trump prepares their medals
On Wednesday afternoon, Joel Arrona was driving his wife Maria to a hospital in San Bernadino, CA for a scheduled Cesarean section. The two parents-to-be were nervous, but they were also out of gas, so Joel pulled over at convenience store to fuel up. As CBS Los Angeles reports, they were...
News Item  ·  5 DailyKos Headlines  ·  Aug 18, 2018  

Alleged Russian Agent Marina Butina Moved to Virginia Jail, Unclear Why
William G. Truesdale Adult Detention CenterMaria Butina, the Russian national accused of acting as a Kremlin agent in the United States, was abruptly moved from a jail in Washington to a lockup in Alexandria, Virginia, according to her lawyer.“I got a collect call from Maria from Alexandria...
News Item  ·  Daily Beast  ·  Aug 18, 2018  

Scouted: Reach Your Goals With Help From These Mindfulness Experts
Wellness experts agree that achieving happiness and satisfaction comes when we identify our purpose in life and seek to fulfill it. What they often fail to mention is how hard it is to identify that purpose.Designed to help you recognize your goals and achieve them with science-backed know-how,...
News Item  ·  Daily Beast  ·  Aug 18, 2018  

Donald Trump Lashes Out at “Loudmouth” John Brennan
President Donald Trump isn’t backing down from his widely condemned decision to revoke the security clearance of John Brennan, who served as CIA director under President Barack Obama. Brennan has been a vocal Trump critic, describing the president’s July press conference with...
News Item  ·  Mother Jones Politics  ·  Aug 18, 2018  

HUD Complaint Says Facebook Discriminated Against Users With Advertising
On Friday, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development announced it had filed a housing discrimination complaint against Facebook for violating the Fair Housing Act with its advertising platform.  Attention was first brought to the potential harm of Facebook’s...
News Item  ·  Mother Jones Politics  ·  Aug 17, 2018  

Enemy of What???
Permit me to enter my small voice to today’s national gathering of newspapers editorially reacting – en masse   – to Donald Trump’s rancorous charge that journalists are the “enemy of the people”. As one who has knocked some newspapers and broadcasters from time to...
News Item  ·  Plunderbund  ·  Aug 17, 2018  

ICE Officers Arrest Man Who Was Driving Pregnant Wife to Hospital for C-Section
What should have been a day of joy ended up being filled with worry and uncertainty as a father has not been able to seen his newborn baby after immigration agents arrested him on the way to the hospital. Joel Arrona Lara, a 36-year-old undocumented immigrant from Mexico, was driving his wife,...
News Item  ·  Slate  ·  Aug 18, 2018  

What Went Wrong With IBM’s Watson
What if artificial intelligence can’t cure cancer after all? That’s the message of a big Wall Street Journal post-mortem on Watson, the IBM project that was supposed to turn IBM’s computing prowess into a scalable program that could deliver state-of-the-art personalized cancer treatment...
News Item  ·  Slate  ·  Aug 18, 2018  

The Other Mandela Is Going to Help End Scott Walker’s Governorship
John Nichols Economic and social- and racial-justice activist Mandela Barnes was just nominated for lieutenant governor of Wisconsin. The post The Other Mandela Is Going to Help End Scott Walker’s Governorship appeared first on The Nation.
News Item  ·  The Nation  ·  Aug 17, 2018  

The Next Generation of Southern Organizing
Robin Happel By providing a playbook for young organizers, Southerners on New Ground encourages college students not simply to stay involved, but to see themselves as leaders in the fight for a more just South. The post The Next Generation of Southern Organizing appeared first on The Nation.
News Item  ·  The Nation  ·  Aug 17, 2018  

Georgia state lawmaker: If Trump said N-word, that’s ‘separate from how he is running the country’
Georgia state Senator Michael Williams said Saturday that while he would disapprove of President Trump saying the N-word on a personal level, the president should not be "berated" if he said it before taking office....
News Item  ·  The Hill  ·  Aug 18, 2018  

Former Trump aide: The press is not the ‘enemy of the people’
Former White House legislative affairs director Marc Short said that he doesn't believe that the press is the "enemy of the America people," as President Trump has repeatedly claimed."No, the press is not the enemy...
News Item  ·  The Hill  ·  Aug 18, 2018  

Issues

Where Do Democrats Need to Go?
Where Do Democrats Need to Go? We need to regain our Vision
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Building a Future for Who We Are
Learning who we are, respecting the differences and working together
Where We stand

A Future for Lancaster
After the Decline of the Glass Industry, The Community needs to build our future by ourselves for ourselves.
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