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Local Democratic PAC elects officers
The newly formed Butler County Progressive Political Action Committee has elected officers and named former county Democratic Party Chairman Donald Daiker as president.
The Oxford-based group, formed from the remnants of Pres. Barack Obama’s campaign, met Thursday, Feb. 12. All 45 members present voted for Daiker, who was a neighborhood leader and staging location director during the presidential campaign.
The PAC elected Bill Gracie, former dean of Miami University’s School of Interdisciplinary Studies and campaign neighborhood leader, as vice president.
Donna Mollaun, a neighborhood leader in Fairfield, was elected secretary. Rick Bailey, former executive director of the county Transportation Improvement District, as treasurer.
The group also elected an executive board:
- Clyde Brown, professor of political science at Miami University
- Eric Carman, retired science teacher from Hamilton High School
- Marilyn Elzey, retired Talawanda High School english teacher and Oxford for Obama-Biden volunteer coordinator
- Kathleen Knight-Abowitz, associate professor of educational leadership at Miami University
- Brian Harrison, an attorney from Monroe.
Daiker said the goal of the PAC is to leverage the organization and momentum of the Obama campaign — which won 66 percent of the vote in Oxford and Oxford Twp. — into grassroots support of Democratic issues at the local, state and national levels.
“We are a grassroots advocacy group that will continue fighting for change in our communities,” Daiker said. “We support affordable health care for all, an end to the war in Iraq, a solution to our economic crisis, and efforts to create new sources of energy to power our economy and protect our environment.”
Daiker said that one of the PAC’s primary goals is to recruit and help elect progressive candidates in this year’s local races and in next year’s county and state elections.
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By Fedup
February 16, 2009 10:26 AM | Link to this
Is it ethical for these college professors to be involved in politics? Seems wrong to me.
By VietVet
February 16, 2009 10:39 AM | Link to this
IMO, it would be unethical for the professors to bring their politics to the classroom and try to persuade others to adopt their political beliefs. If they keep their politics out of the classroom, and do their political activity after hours, shouldn’t matter.
By Bill
February 16, 2009 11:18 AM | Link to this
Yep, only the state tells its workers what they can do politically in their off hours.
By Politico
February 16, 2009 11:43 AM | Link to this
I find in interesting how quickly some people want to take away a person’s constitutional rights. I would think that belonging to a PAC would fall under freedom of speech. I wonder if Fedup would also support a law banning gun ownership to college professors (I am not talking about bringing guns to class, just gun ownership). Same idea, taking away someone’s constitutional rights based on their employment.
By ksl
February 16, 2009 12:07 PM | Link to this
Colleges have become “hot houses” for the liberal left. Little or no competition, live off of other people’s money via grants, government subsidies, tenure, etc. Not many reality-based professors on state college campuses. Pretty intolerant of those who don’t go with the program, and Oxford is virtually 100% college town.
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