{"id":1948,"date":"2021-11-09T06:43:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T11:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gcdp.org\/staging\/2069\/?p=1948"},"modified":"2021-11-09T06:45:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T11:45:03","slug":"a-message-from-our-chair-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gcdp.org\/staging\/2069\/a-message-from-our-chair-4\/","title":{"rendered":"A message from our Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many thanks to those who helped pass out slates for this Non-Partisan election &#8211; those who volunteered as Poll Workers, Rovers, logistics and accuracy testing, and those who provided added muscle at the\u00a0Board of\u00a0Elections.<br><br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Most people don\u2019t realize that the\u00a0amount of attention to detail and effort that goes into a Local Non-Partisan election is the same as\u00a0a Presidential election.\u00a0 As soon as this election is finished and certified, we start preparing for the next election. (May 03, 2022 &#8211; Primary, then Nov. 08, 2022, Gubernatorial.)<br><br>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Our party and our Democracy need you &#8211; when we participate by volunteering, getting informed, voting, and donating, we can make a difference. Democracy is messy but I wouldn\u2019t trade it for anything. The United States\u00a0may be a young nation but we are the longest continuous democracy. Don\u2019t let it fail because we get tired or depressed due to the conspiracy theories that so many believe in or due to the ignorance of folks in how elections take place. Keep talking to your neighbors, family, friends, and co-workers. \u00a0&#8220;Truth matters here.&#8221; &#8211; Lt. Col. Vindman.<br><br>\u00a0 \u00a0Our Democratic Party principles are people-oriented and worth struggling to put into place as well as talking to others about them. \u00a0Patriotic Democrats are working to get to bottom of the January 6 Capitol attack while Republicans and others\u00a0are busy trying to ignore what happened and put it behind them. \u00a0<br><br>\u00a0 \u00a0 Unfortunately, Trump and his followers, with the complicit approval of many in the Republican party, have emboldened bullying behavior and the pushing of false narratives to create chaos, mutilate the truth, and divide society.\u00a0\u00a0Don\u2019t let\u00a0lies and bullying\u00a0dissuade\u00a0you from standing firm for our ideals and for\u00a0sympathizing\u00a0with those less fortunate. \u00a0We have many battles to fight, keep up your courage, fight the good fight, and don\u2019t ever give up. <br><br>Doris Adams, GCDP Chairman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to those who helped pass out slates for this Non-Partisan election &#8211; those who volunteered as Poll Workers, Rovers, logistics and accuracy testing, and those who provided added &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gcdp.org\/staging\/2069\/a-message-from-our-chair-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A message from our Chair<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcdp.org\/staging\/2069\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcdp.org\/staging\/2069\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcdp.org\/staging\/2069\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcdp.org\/staging\/2069\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcdp.org\/staging\/2069\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gcdp.org\/staging\/2069\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1950,"href":"https:\/\/gcdp.org\/staging\/2069\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions\/1950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcdp.org\/staging\/2069\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcdp.org\/staging\/2069\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcdp.org\/staging\/2069\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}