About Us
The Eaton County Dems & Friends Association (D&F) 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 elected officeholders within Eaton County, and nearly all have helped to pursue our goal of supporting progressive leadership, including volunteering for President Barack Obama and former U.S. Congressman Mark Schauer!

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 political 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 Eaton County Democratic Party and Dems and Friends – there are coordinated activities and separate activities – providing great opportunities to participate!

Contact Information
We absolutely welcome new members and certainly hope that we provide an atmosphere in which all interested parties can participate, learn, and grow. We typically meet once each month and have a variety of sub-committees that also provide a great opportunity to participate and provide input.

Please consider joining us.

Telephone
(517) 627-3833

Postal address
Eaton County Dems and Friends
209 E. Lincoln
Grand Ledge, MI 48837

Electronic mail
General Information: info@demsandfriends.com

Webmaster: webmaster@demsandfriends.com

Dems and Friends 2011-2012 Officers
Chair: Christine Walker at chrisalice1048@yahoo.com
Assistant Chair: Vince Swift
Secretary: Erin Butler
Treasurer: Sherry Freeman