OBAMA AND DEMOCRATS DISCUSS COUP BEHIND CLOSED DOORS BEFORE ILLEGAL AMNESTY
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Uprising Excerpt of Roberto Lovato on Obamas Executive Action, Democrats, Mexican Crisis
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Published: Sunday, 11/23/2014
BY TOM TROY BLADE POLITICS WRITER
As Ottawa County resident Chris Redfern prepares to relinquish the reins of the Ohio Democratic Party, candidates to replace him, grass-roots party activists, and county chairmen are engaging in listening tours, meetings, and rounds of phone calls to try to figure out who should lead the party and how to break out of its recent cycle of electoral failure.
Democrats are also looking inward, questioning their message as well as the candidates that have been spreading that message.
The state party is emerging from a political debacle with a gubernatorial candidate, Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald, who failed to raise enough money to be competitive. Republican incumbent Gov. John Kasich carried 86 of Ohios 88 counties, including Lucas County, normally a bastion of Democratic voters.
An issue thats getting some consideration is whether the partys stock of liberal policy positions is turning off, rather than energizing, Ohio voters.
Democratic frustration is understandable. As a force in the Statehouse and at the congressional level, the party appears to be running on fumes. It holds none of the five statewide elected offices, only one of seven Ohio Supreme Court seats, and minorities in the state House and Senate.
While Ohio has favored President Obama in the last two presidential elections and has a Democratic U.S. senator, Sherrod Brown, its state elections have trended Republican for more than two decades. Republicans have won five of the last six elections for governor. Republicans have controlled the state Senate for the last 22 years and the House for 17 of those years. Democrats controlled the House in 2009 and 2010.
Source of woes
Some blame the Republican wave election of 2010, which gave the GOP total control of the apportionment of state legislative and congressional districts and thus the power to squeeze Democrats into as few Statehouse and congressional districts as possible.
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Democrats in the state House elected a new leadership team on Saturday as the group shifts into its new role as the chambers minority party for the first time in more than 60 years.
EGOLF: Elected House minority leader
During a caucus meeting held Saturday at the Roundhouse, the Democrats elected Rep. Brian Egolf, D-Santa Fe, to serve as House minority leader when the Legislature goes into session on Jan. 20.
WILLIAMS STAPLETON: Hew House minority whip
Rep. Sheryl Williams Stapleton, D-Albuquerque, was elected minority whip. Rep. Patricia Roybal Caballero, D-Albuquerque, was named the Democrats caucus chair.
Egolf, a Santa Fe lawyer and political progressive, was named to lead the House Democrats after their top leader, current House Speaker Ken Martinez, D-Grants, declined to seek a leadership role in the new term. The Democrats second-in-command, current Majority Leader Rick Miera, D-Albuquerque, did not seek re-election this year.
Republican House members earlier this month nominated Rep. Don Tripp, R-Socorro, to serve as the new House speaker. With a 37-33 majority in the House, Tripp is expected to have the votes to be elected speaker when the full House convenes in January.
Egolf, who has served in the House since 2009, said he will work to highlight policy differences in debate with the new Republican majority.
My job as leader will be to show New Mexico, when appropriate, the difference that comes from putting Republicans in charge instead of Democrats, and there are going to be very clear differences, Egolf said.
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