CHESTER COUNTY DEMOCRATS OCTOBER 2022 NEWSLETTER In this newsletter: Democracy is on the Ballot in November Message from the Chair Closing Arguments Halloween isn't THIS scary! Your 'One Thing' to do this Month Calendar DEMOCRACY IS ON THE BALLOT...
by Rep. Melissa Shusterman, D-157 This past summer, Republicans in the Pennsylvania House and Senate rammed through a bill with several proposed constitutional amendments that would limit personal rights instead of protecting them. One of the...
Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania, Sierra Club, Penn Future and Clean Water Action have rated PA legislators based on their votes on 19 bills in the 2021-22 session. This excerpted map shows ratings for districts fully or partly in Chester County...
West Chester, PA. (October 13, 2022) A capacity crowd of nearly 250 enthusiastic Chester County Democrats on Monday attended the county committee fall dinner fundraiser at the Desmond Hotel in Malvern to hear from their party’s US Senate, Governor...
Let us count the votes! Leave a reply by Rep. Kristine Howard (D-167) The Harrisburg Republican hypocrisy on voting and voting rights is stunning. In 2019 the Pennsylvania legislature, in rare bipartisan fashion, passed Act 77 making no-excuse,...
letter in the Delaware Valley Journal, 10/5/22, by CCDC Chairwoman Charlotte Valyo On Tuesday, November 8, Americans will once again head to the polls to exercise one of our most important rights – the right to vote. This year, however, the stakes...
In this newsletter: The Story We Need to Tell Message from the Chair Candidate Spotlight: Cathy Spahr, PA House District 160 Voting Rights are on the Ballot this November Your 'One Thing' to do this Month Calendar THE STORY WE NEED TO TELL Now is...
by CCDC Chairwoman Charlotte Valyo The United States of America is a nation of immigrants. We have been since the day we were founded, and we are a stronger, more successful, and more prosperous country because of it. How we treat immigrants has...
"‘A Crisis Coming’: The Twin Threats to American Democracy," David Leonhardt's thorough New York Times report, concludes that "American democracy has never faced a threat quite like the current one." Among a variety of problems such as the...
Education Alert! The following open letter signed by 79 school board members from across the state shows the high stakes in the November 8 election. If the R candidate, Doug Mastriano, becomes Governor, his plan is to slash already insufficient...
