Controller’s investigation leads to Chesco Sheriff’s case going to trial next year

Dec 8, 2019 | CCDC Blog, ChesCo row offices

In an unusual turnabout, Chesco Sheriff Carolyn “Bunny” Welsh, a Republican, will herself face a jury in 2020, her last year in the office that she first occupied in 2000. The case results from County Controller Margaret Reif (pictured here), a Democrat...

The most important election ever to be held in the annals of Chester County Democratic history

Nov 5, 2019 | CCDC Blog, ChesCo row offices

by Chris Pielli, Dem candidate for Recorder of Deeds This is the most important election ever to be held in the annals of Chester County Democratic history. The Republican Party has controlled our County for hundreds of years. And with that self-serving one party rule...

Tribute to Martha Smith

Nov 2, 2019 | CCDC Blog, ChesCo row offices

from CCDC chair Dick Bingham: I am sorry to report that Martha Smith passed away on Tuesday, October 29 at the age of 91. By all accounts, Martha was a cornerstone of the Democratic Party in Chester County, as we know it today. I reached out to several who knew her...

Op/Ed: The importance of a good deed

Oct 1, 2019 | CCDC Blog, ChesCo row offices

By Chris Pielli, The Times of Chester County, 10/1/19 Why do people run for political office? Ideally, it should be to serve the public and put the public’s interest above all other interests, including your own. I think of Sophocles’ famous quote –“To be doing good...

Movement Block Party, Coatesville, Aug. 3

Aug 7, 2019 | CCDC Blog, ChesCo row offices, Commissioner Candidates, Court of Common Pleas Candidates

CCDC’s 9 for 19 initiative (meaning 9 countywide candidates for 2019) was there in full force:

Chester County Clerk of Courts begins accepting e-filing documents

Mar 14, 2019 | CCDC Blog, ChesCo row offices

WEST CHESTER, March 12, 2019 The Chester County Clerk of Courts office is now accepting documents by electronic filing, or e-filing. The e-filing process allows lawyers to submit documents electronically, alleviating the need to visit the Clerk of Courts Office in...

"The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled..." --Frederick Douglass, in "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?", his 1852 oration in Rochester NY commemorating the 76th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.