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The mission of the Tallmadge Democratic Club is to provide a strong, honest, active and Democratic organization in the City of Tallmadge. The club promotes the principles of the Democratic Party, encourages the participation of all Democrats in the affairs of their party and supports the enrollment of people in the Democratic Party who subscribe to its principles.
TDC assists candidates running for office in Tallmadge, Summit County, the 43rd State House District, the 28th State Senate District, and the 17th Congressional District of Ohio as well as County and local Democratic candidates.
Our promise is to make our community a great place to live and raise a family, our businesses strong, and a democracy that works to improve the lives of our citizens. President Barack Obama has called all Americans to become engaged and to participate in this great experiment we call Democracy, formed over two hundred years ago. The only thing missing in getting us there is - YOU. Won't you join us?
Penny Taylor, - Law Director
OUR TALLMADGE DEMOCRATIC ELECTED OFFICIALS
Mayor Chris Grimm - "The best darn Mayor in Summit County"
Jill Stritch - Finance Director
Lisa Zeno Carano, Stow Municipal Court Clerk and past Tallmadge City Council member with Mayor Christopher Grimm
The Tallmadge Democratic Club meets monthly at the Tallmadge Library on Community Drive. There are many activities and fun events we will be planning in 2009.Please join us and help us build a caring and democratic Tallmadge community. It all starts at the local level! For more informationi on how you can become involved, please contact Patrick Carano at (330) 634-1066.
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Tallmadge Unity Rally on the Circle - Pictured L-R: State Senator Tom Sawyer, Summit County Executive Russ Pry, Court of Common Pleas Judge Tom Teodosio, Ninth District Court of Appeals Judge Clair Dickinson, Summit County Councilman John Poda, Summit County Domestic Relations Judge Carol Dezso, and Summit County Councilwoman Ilene Shapiro
Finance Director Jill Stritch with Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray at the TDC's Annual Cinco De Mayo Celebration
Tom and Chris enjoying the festivities
Robert Maguire
Councilman
Kimberly Ray
Councilwoman
Summit County Council - District 6 Representative Jerry Feeman
Congressman Tim Ryan and Stow Clerk of Courts Lisa Zeno Carano
"We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak....there is such a thing as being too late....Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with lost opportunity....Over the bleached bones of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: ‘Too late.’" Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
AFL-CIO Labor Council's Bill Crooks with Finance director Jill Stritch and Congressman Tim Ryan
The Tallmadge Democratic Club present:
The 4th Annual Cinco De Mayo Celebration
May 3, 2010
Plaza Maya Restaurant
Monday, 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
498 South Avenue
Tallmadge, Ohio 44278
Donation: $30.00
Seniors: $20.00
Young Dems: S15.00
For ticket information contact Patrick Carano at tallmadgedems@yahoo.com or by phone at 330.807-9096.
Contracts are sacred only when rich people are getting paid
Shahien Nasiripour reports that J.P. Morgan plans to go hard against policies to modify underwater mortgages because contracts are sacred documents premised on the borrowers' "promise to repay."
This struck one union employee as a bit odd: After all, the business community is constantly demanding that autoworkers and steelworkers and other well-compensated laborers change their contracts to remain more in sync with the times. In those cases, contracts don't appear to be all that sacred, and employers' aren't seen as having some cosmic "promise to repay."
"Next time big business or Republican Governors or Mayors are talking about how working families need to 'sacrifice' or 'give back' for the good of the community by altering their contracts," e-mailed the AFL-CIO's Eddie Vale, "let's remember what happens when the shoe is on the other foot."
By Ezra Klein | April 13, 2010;
GOP Folds Its Cards at Holder Hearing
Michael Isikoff
Attorney General Eric Holder escaped the Senate Judiciary Committee virtually unscathed on Wednesday, signaling that the political firestorm over his handling of big terrorism cases may have subsided.
Only a few months ago, Republicans were practically calling for Holder’s scalp, accusing him of bungling the Christmas Day bombing incident and making a wrongheaded decision to try alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in federal court in New York.
But at a long-anticipated hearing before the Senate on Wednesday, Holder firmly stood his ground—and got little resistance. He forcefully touted recent Justice Department successes in securing guilty pleas in major terrorism cases in New York and Chicago, and told the panel that accused Christmas Day underpants bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, has provided “actionable” intelligence to federal authorities despite having been read his Miranda rights after his capture.
Perhaps more surprising, he told the panel that “New York is not off the table” to hold the 9/11 trial despite the state’s lawmakers and elected officials having turned against it. While the White House is still reviewing Holder’s initial decision to try the case in Manhattan, the attorney general said today that a final decision on where to hold the trial—and whether it should be in federal court or before a military commission—is still “weeks away.” And Republicans for the most part folded their cards. To be sure, ranking minority committee member Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama started out the session by telling Holder that “your actions have shaken my confidence in your leadership” of the Justice Department. But his GOP colleagues barely pressed Holder on the KSM case and other volatile terrorism issues.
Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley, for example, asked an initial series of questions about Holder’s refusal to publicly identify Justice Department lawyers who previously represented Guantánamo Bay detainees. Then when Holder forcefully defended his position—telling the Iowa Republican he would not allow “good decent lawyers” to have “their reputations besmirched”—Grassley quickly moved on to other matters, such as the Justice Department’s handling of Freedom of Information Act requests. Other usually fierce GOP attack dogs, such as Arizona Sen. John Kyl and Texas Sen. John Cornyn, also chose to use their time to question the A.G. about other issues, such as immigration and health-care fraud.
“They built this up as Holder’s Waterloo and completely backed off when he didn’t cave,” said one Democratic staffer about the GOP questioning.
In part, the relatively tepid hearing appears to reflect a more tempered political climate on the terrorism issue than in the weeks after the attempted Christmas Day bombing incident, when there appeared to be a genuine fear that the event may have signaled the start of a new wave of attacks against the homeland.
But the new, quieter GOP mood may also reflect a sense that at least some of Holder’s critics may have overreached. Most prominently, the Internet ad run by Liz Cheney’s Keep America Safe group slamming Holder for hiring “Al Qaeda lawyers” at Justice because nine had at one point previously represented Gitmo detainees was widely denounced—even by prominent former Bush administration officials—as a “shameless” and Joe McCarthy–like attack on the lawyers’ patriotism.
Without specifically naming Cheney, Holder today called recent ads on the issue “reprehensible.”
And Democratic senators such as Sen. Dick Durbin played up those attacks today, telling Holder that he should not allow the criminal-justice system to be “driven by fear and anger.”
"I think you are standing up for a very fundamental principle and rule of law here," he said, "that does go back to John Adams."