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Happy First Anniversary

Posted January 21, 2018 in News
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by Rick Patelunas. Donald Trump’s first year in office coincides with Republicans’ total control of the Federal government and it ends with – a government shutdown. Even with control of the Presidency, the House of Representatives and the Senate, the party in power cannot govern. The outcome is more a self-fulfilling prophecy than the natural process…
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Hope

Posted January 19, 2018 in News
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by Joan Sloane. When I was asked to be a guest blogger, I was at first discouraged; so much happens every day to make our yesterday insignificant that it would be impossible to write about anything revelatory or timely. What could we talk about when there’s a new calamity in each 24 hour cycle? So…hope. How perfect to…
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What Happens at Precinct Reorganization? How Can You Get Involved?

Posted January 7, 2018 in News
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by Nancy Anderson. Horry County has 122 precincts. Interested Democrats from each precinct will gather in precinct clusters at the Academy for Technology and Arts the morning of March 24, 2018 to elect precinct officers, sign up to be county and state convention delegates, and propose resolutions. Led by precinct officers, strong precinct level voter outreach and…
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Stand Up for DACA Students

Posted January 6, 2018 in News
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Unity Church in Surfside, SC will be hosting a “Stand Up for DACA Students Forum” on Thursday, January 11, 2018, at 11:30 a.m. The forum will be led by South Carolina House of Representatives candidate, Robin Gause (Seat 106).  The host pastor, Reverend Margaret Hiller, would like to invite clergy members, DACA students, and all…
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When is Enough… Enough?

Posted January 6, 2018 in News
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by Barbara A. Hake. The names Roy Moore, Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Matt Lauer, Al Franken, John Conyers and, yes, Donald Trump, should make every woman cringe, as I do, and every man look in the mirror. While Roy Moore was trolling the courthouse looking for pretty, young women, and Harvey Weinstein was abusing his power and…
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Building Stronger Communities: The Grand Strand’s 12th Annual MLK Celebration

Posted December 31, 2017 in News
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We hope you will participate in the 12th Annual Martin Luther King Celebration, which will take place Jan. 12-15 in Myrtle Beach, featuring events designed both for fun and for community and individual opportunity and progress. Chaired by Bennie Swans, chairman of the Carolina African American Heritage Foundation, who also is chairman of the Horry County…
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2018 – It’s Time to Act

Posted December 24, 2017 in News
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by Bennie Swans. As we look forward to the new year, it is heartening that the election of Democrat Doug Jones in Alabama to the U.S. Senate offers real hope for Democrats in other southern states that what not long ago was unthinkable may well be within reach in 2018, including right here in Horry County. Although…
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Posted December 16, 2017 in Community Voices
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Let's talk about it - Horry County Democratic Party
by Rick Patelunas. After stumbling through its last day for a second House vote in two days, the Republican tax bill is heading for Donald Trump’s signature. It’s a bait-and-switch that will leave the people who actually work for a living paying for a huge holiday gift to corporations. The Republican tax reform bill is not the…
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Save our Seas:  Help End the Plastic Plague

Posted December 10, 2017 in Community Voices
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by Cathy Tourloukis. Our planet is in peril. Plastic is taking over our world exponentially. It's a crisis so serious that the United Nations has literally declared war on ocean plastic, with an unprecedented global campaign to eliminate major sources of marine litter:  micro-plastics in cosmetics, and the excessive, wasteful usage of single-use plastic by the year 2022. So far,…
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Let’s Find a Way to Come Together

Posted December 9, 2017 in News
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by Bennie Swans. Chairman HCDP I want to reprint here the first part of the Sports Illustrated article announcing that former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick had been selected to receive the SI Muhammad Ali Legacy Award for 2017: Colin Kaepernick made his truth known when he first decided not to stand for the national anthem. He…
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Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Posted December 7, 2017 in News
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by Bennie Swans. Chairman, HCDP Editor’s Note:  As previously announced, we’re starting a weekly blog, and this is the first edition. From January 12-15, we will commemorate a singular moment in the history of our great country – the 55-year anniversary of the famous March on Washington when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. presented his famous “I Have…
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The GOP Tax Scam:  Don’t Be Fooled by the Confusion

Posted December 4, 2017 in News
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by Rick Patelunas. Now that both House and Senate have passed bills vastly changing America’s tax system, slashing taxes for corporations and the wealthy with a pittance to low and middle-income taxpayers, lawmakers must now get together in conference committee to iron out the differences between their differing tax bills. Republicans contend the differences are not…
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Our New Blog – Welcome!

Posted December 1, 2017 in News
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Welcome to a new weekly feature, To the Point, our new blog. With so many important developments taking place that impact our lives and our future, we’ll use this space to comment and offer perspective from the Democratic point of view. Check in regularly and bookmark it to stay up-to-date – and let us know what you…
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Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) Marketplace Enrollment has Begun! Be Insured. Enroll Now. Don’t Delay

Posted November 21, 2017 in News
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by Nancy Anderson. The marketplace enrollment period for health insurance started on November 1 and ends on December 15. The Trump administration slashed the sign-up period in half and cut the advertising budget to the bone, so HCDP is working to get the word out to South Carolinians. Who should enroll? Anyone who does not have health insurance…
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