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About Us
The Eaton County Dems & Friends Association
is dedicated to informing voters on public policy issues. We hope to
serve the community by offering events, information and action on issues
and policies which affect each of us. Our goal is to provide Eaton
County residents with the information they need to make an informed
decision at the ballot box.
Our organization has
offered forums presenting views on several hot issues as they were being
debated nationally and locally: the Patriot Act, the Medicare
Prescription Drug, No Child Left Behind, Minimum Wage, and Social
Security Privatization.
Since our formation in 2003, several of our members have become
officeholders within the county, and nearly all have helped to pursue
our goal of supporting progressive leadership, including volunteering
for Congressman Mark Schauer and President Barack Obama!
While we work with the
Eaton County Democratic Party, we are not a part of that organization.
We have observed that while some do not wish to be identified with a
particular party, they may wish to be involved with specific issues and
specific Democratic candidates. At the outset we strove to encourage
nonaffiliated persons to join us, in that we are both Democrats and
“Friends” of progressive thought and leadership.
Our political action
committee, “Eaton County Dems & Friends
Leadership PAC,” has helped in
our efforts to support candidates. In 2006 Eaton County gained a
Democratic majority on the Board of Commissioners, and in 2008 the
people of Delta Township elected four Democrats to their seven-member
Board of Trustees.
We welcome new members
and hope that we provide an atmosphere in which all interested parties
can participate, learn, and grow. The newly invigorated Eaton County
Democratic Party will be taking the lead on many of our prior
activities, but we still see a need for both our forums and our PAC. We
encourage you to become involved with both the
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Democratic Party and Dems and Friends – there are coordinated
activities and separate activities – providing great opportunities to
participate!
Dems and Friends 2009-2010 Officers
Contact:
info@demsandfriends.com; 517-881-5915
Chair: Jacky Tennis
Assistant Chair: Tom Anderson
Secretary: Jane Mudry
Treasurer: Sherry Freeman
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