An open letter from a red county Democratic Chair

Like many of you, I am a Democratic Party Chair in a very red rural county (Huron, Ohio) where just getting a Democrat to run for office is almost impossible.  But, I look at my grandkids and think I have to do something.  Something to begin the necessary conversations to raise awareness of the dangerous times we are in.

Those conversations cannot begin with policies.  We have to reach common ground first.  Freedom, Justice and Opportunity are values that are difficult to claim as belonging to only one party - they belong to all of us, Democrat, Republican, Unaffiliated.  Defining Democrats as having these values is critical to having our views listened to and having credibility.