The Big Goal For MCDP Reorganization — Defeat Mike Turner And Elect Democrats In Republican Districts |

At the coming quadrennial MCDP Reorganization Meeting, scheduled for June, I am urging the Central Committee to focus on defeating Mike Turner — and defeating the Republicans in the Ohio Assembly, as well. The MCDP, historically, has put zero effort and resources into these important races. The emphasis always has been on county offices, Dayton offices, and local judgeships. Those contests matter—but the crisis of our time calls for creating a Democratic Party that can win in Washington and Columbus.

To expand the scope of the party, the MCDP needs a new structure. Right now, the whole organization amounts to the MCDP Executive Committee — a group of less than 100 individuals. The MCDP, as an organization, does not exist. It is simply an email list of donors.

I’m proposing a new MCDP Constitution to:

Establish the MCDP as a real organization of rank-and-file Democrats as members.
Empower Central Committee members to create Democratic Committees in their jurisdictions and solicit and welcome local members.
Schedule the next Reorganization for 2028 and spend the next two years building program, Democratic Committees, and membership.
Empower the MCDP in 2028 to elect its own officers, establish its own committees, hold its own meetings.
Outline the relationship between the MCDP and the Central Committee, named the “controlling committee” by state law.

The democratization of the Democratic Party and defining it as a flat organization rather than hierarchical, I believe, is key to the party building the capacity to win elections that now seem out of reach. The idea is to start build this infrastructure to help Democratic candidates in the 2026 elections and to continue over the next two years building membership and program and developing Democratic candidates with a solid base.

There is a lot to think through and my goal is to start a discussion. Tell me what you think. This is a first in a series of posts to be collected as a longer paper titled, “Project 2028: A Two Year Plan To Build Community And Flip Our Congressional District”

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