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MESSAGE FROM NEW CHAIR
Fellow
Democrats
The Defiance County Democratic Central and
Executive Committees held their
reorganizational meetings on Tuesday April 1.
At that meeting I was elected county chairman
and the following individuals were elected to
these posts: Dave Plant-Central Committee
Chairman, Howard Tropepe-Central Committee Vice
Chairman, Jo Diehl- Central Committee
Secretary, Randy Wilde- Treasurer, Charlie
Gray- Executive Committee Vice Chairman and
Norma Jean Appel- Executive Committee
Secretary.
It is my belief that we must fundamentally
change the way we operate as a party in this
county. It must be our primary focus to build
the party, recruit, develop and promote
candidates. This can be achieved if we
establish realistic goals and timeframes in
which to complete each task. We have made a big
improvement by filling over 30 of the precinct
seats for the first time in over a decade. This
renewed interests by many individuals will
allow us to increase the number of at large
seats on the executive board to 18 or 19, which
will give us an executive board of over fifty
individuals. (Remember many hands make light
work). With this many new helpers we can get
more jobs done without overtaxing our
members.
I think we should make it a goal to have
competitive candidates in every local election
within the next two election cycles and to
raise $10,000 a year in order to get these
candidates elected and to build a local
networking system to assist these candidates.
Lofty, but achievable goals, if we all work
together.
Also, it has been a practice of the party to
make the county chair a member of the county
elections board, I have no interest in that
position as I am a candidate for office and
cannot serve on the board while I am a
candidate and if elected county prosecutor, I
believe it would be a conflict of interest to
hold that position. Vic Vogel does a good on
the board and I hope that he continues in that
position.
Finally, since we have more at large seats
available this year, I extend an invitation to
any Democrat who wants to help the party by
filling these positions, if interested, email
me or call me at my office 419-782-0488 or at
home 419-782-6957 or call any member of the
executive committee and have them forward your
interest onto me. Also if you just want to help
out but don’t really want to be on the board
give me a call and let me know what you might
be interested in doing and we will try to find
something you can do to help out the Party. Or
let me know if you have any questions or
comments. This is an exciting time for all
Democrats and with all of us working together
we can continue to build our party in this
county. I look forward to working with all of
you.
Democratically Yours
Tim
Holtsberry
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