BUILDING A COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY COALITION

November 8, 2016…a turning point in American Democracy. Surely, all of us remember the shock and horror of the election of Donald Trump.

Immediately thereafter, that surprising development motivated a group of Michigan Democratic Party County leaders to brainstorm and organize a new approach to confront the dangers they recognized in this depressing turn of the political landscape in America.

That approach was to build a coalition of County Democratic Parties in Northern Michigan, to collaborate to build our strength as a unified whole against the dangers of a Trump Presidency.

Originally, this group consisted of County Democratic Parties in one State House District in a predominately rural area. In 2023 this coalition expanded to 3 Northern State House Districts that now includes 14 County Democratic Parties.

We believe this is a model of collaboration that all County Democratic Parties nationally (especially rural counties) can endorse and embrace.