New Castle County Democratic Party Chairman Erik Schramm spends a few minutes with The Community News‘ Jesse Chadderdon to talk about past successes of the New Castle County Democrats as well as their future plans. Take a few minutes to read this interview. Schramm brings up the listening tour that Chris Coons held last year:
A lot of officials have been having town hall meetings to say, ‘here are the items we’ve stripped from the budget,’ and I think it’s interesting because a lot of folks have gone into those meetings pretty charged up . . . but when they leave there, it seems like more people finally get it. We need to do more to get that message out there and that’s why last year Chris Coons did a listening tour through each of the council districts talking to voters and hearing what their suggestions were and what services were important to them.
Interesting notes: The Democratic Party holds 11 out of the 13 council seats and the last three county executives were Democrats — though I’d swear that Tom Gordon was secretly a Republican. 😉