Bloodless Coup

WV for Democracy & the Mon Democratic Exec Committee

As some of you know, I occasionally attend meetings of WV for Democracy, a group of people who got to know each other during the 2004 campaign season, and who work on various political projects. One thing that a lot of people in the group wanted to do after the '04 campaign cycle was to get some new people on the Democratic Party's Executive Committee for Monongalia County. Basically, too many of the old guard are simply inactive and completely unresponsive. So Professor Peterson took charge of getting people across the county to volunteer to serve (and actually be active, if they are elected). Not every name on the list is a new person. There are incumbents on the board like Carey Blaney who've been doing a great job. But far too many of the incumbents have stayed in their positions too long and not done enough. So if you are interested in reinvigorating the Democrats of Mon County, I hope you consider voting for the candidates that WV for Democracy has endorsed in the election on May 9th. They are:

District 1 - Buffy Vehse; District 2 - Carroll Wetzel Wilkinson, John Lozier; District 3 - Carolyn Nelson, Carl Rotter; District 4 - Kathy Abate, Dave Hall; District 5 - Ron Allen; District 7 - Anita Mayer, Andrew Cockburn; District 9 - Judy Sirk, Donald D. Longfellow Jr.; District 10 - Carey Blaney, Karl Diefenbach; District 12 - Paul Martinelli.