We are pleased to announce that our 2018 SHORE Dinner has SOLD OUT!
If you have spoken to Nancy Anderson and let her know that your check would be sent to the PO Box, please call her at: (843)340-1595 ASAP to discuss your reservation.
If you do not have a confirmed reservation and would like to be…
By Barbara J. Sloan.
When we’re rushing to protect lives and property, voting rights may not be uppermost in our minds. Nonetheless, when homes flood from rising waters or blown off roofs, voting rights can be compromised.
That’s because many states, including South Carolina, require personal identification such as a driver’s license or passport to vote. All these…
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Since resuming campaigning Monday, James Smith and Mandy Powers Norrell have been in Greenville, Spartanburg, Lancaster, Richland, Dillon and Marlboro counties. On Thursday, they had no fewer than seven events in Aiken County. Today they’ll be in Florence, then over the weekend Charleston, among other places.
Welcome to the 46-County Campaign.…
Although most South Carolinians and many Horry County residents are breathing easier now that Hurricane Florence has exited the area, in many cases leaving less damage than anticipated, we know this is a slow-motion disaster for many residents of Horry County who live near the waterway and rivers all of which makes our county so…
By Don Kohn.
HCDP is working hard to encourage greater voter registration and inform our citizens of our party’s values to help them understand what our candidates would implement if elected.
While HCDP has set aside some funds to carry out this effort, we are asking for additional help so we can expand our area of coverage…
By Henry Garbelman and David Higham.
The purpose of the video is to educate individuals to the risks associated with our children. We hope this initiative will cause more people who don’t own guns to be aware of these risks, and prompt them to ask before they send their children over to play next…
By Rick Patelunas.
It’s easy to forget that Labor Day is more than a transition from summer and to fall on the calendar. The history of Labor Day stretches back more than 100 years. Labor Day is “a national holiday celebrating the nation’s workers” according to the US Department of Labor's website.
Labor Day is a chance…
By V. Susan Hutchinson.
On August 23, the HCDP Westside Dems held their meeting at the Conway Library. The group invited John Brisini to present the topic Common Sense Economics. Brisini is the legislative liaison for the South Carolina AFL-CIO as well as the founder of the AI-Group, which provides business and political consulting/advising. The AI-Group…
By Sandra Kohn.
As a woman who has seen and experienced a lot in her multiple decades, nothing is more abhorrent to me than violence directed at women and children.
Domestic violence, sexual assault, and other forms of gender-based violence deprive women and girls of their fundamental ability to live with dignity. Women and girls experience domestic…
By Don Kohn.
We are now less than three months away from the November 6 general election and questions about our voting processes and voting security continue unresolved, jeopardizing the fundamental right of all of our citizens to be certain that their votes are counted – and accurately.
Last week, HCDP’s Wendy Baruch wrote a terrific piece…
Coming within an inch of calling President Trump an outright terrorist, State Rep. Robert Williams declared Monday, Aug. 13, that "We cannot allow other dictatorships to run our country.”
Williams, the 7th District Democratic candidate for Congress, was guest speaker at the Carolina Forest Democrats monthly meeting.
“We've got terrorists right here in the U.S. They are doing…
By Bob Gatty.
The Trump administration's plan announced last week to weaken the 2020-2026 auto emissions and mileage requirements has been blasted by 10 major health and medical organizations, and now we learn that even the auto industry, which had lobbied for relief, apparently thinks it goes too far.
To be effective in 2020, the proposal would eliminate the requirement…
By Wendy Baruch
Hanging around the Horry County Democratic Party (HCDP), a person can learn a thing a two. Sometimes these things just need to be verified. When I saw a video from Tuesday’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cyber Security Summit, watching agency head Kirstjen Nielson confirming the present threat to our Democracy in the…
As the U.S. Census Bureau prepares to conduct the decennial Census in 2020, concerns about the inclusion of a question regarding citizenship requested by the Trump Administration have cause widespread opposition and prompted lawsuits to be filed by more than two dozen states. It's no wonder, because it's a classic example of a shell game.
Critics…
By Sandra Kohn
One of the most sensitive issues confronting women today and, for that matter, decades passed, is our reproductive rights.
It is my opinion, and I believe the opinion of many women, that a woman needs – and should have without question – the right to direct her own life to include choices regarding her…
Harold “Buster” Hatcher, chief of the Waccamaw Indian Tribe, whose 450 members make their home in the area of South Carolina's Waccamaw River, has called out President Trump for his inhumane polices when dealing with immigrants, especially those of Hispanic origin.
“It kind of makes me angry when people who are immigrants themselves argue about another…
Horry County Democratic Party was proud to present a check for $500 on July 23rd to Shane Hubbard from the Horry County Agency on Aging’s Veterans Independence Program (VIP). The check represents 10 percent of the profits from the Senator Dick Elliott Memorial Golf Outing held June 30 at Wild Wing’s Avocet Course in Conway.
In…
We were saddened to learn of the untimely death of Paul Morse, the Democratic candidate for South Carolina House of Representatives, District 58.
For the past six years, Morse was the owner of House of Morse, a Conway, SC-based hospitality consulting company. He had 34 years managing hospitality industry housekeeping functions for hotels and resorts.
“We were…
By Sandra Kohn.
In today’s political climate, women’s issues are of primary concern and well they should be. When we look back over the last century, we tend to congratulate ourselves on our progress; but the truth is our progress has been slow and thwarted with perilous opposition.
Today, especially in this era of President Donald Trump…
by Don Kohn.
The nomination by President Trump of Brett Kavanaugh to succeed retiring Justice David Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court emphasizes in stark terms the absolute necessity of Democrats assuming control of both houses of the U.S. Congress in the November 6 election.
Kavanaugh’s commitment to extreme right wing public policy issues has been well…