Meredith Wood Smith, Candidate for Chair
Dear Oregon Democrats,
Over the next two years leadership of the DPO must build upon our recent successes. I believe my professional, Party and community experience equips me to lead our Party to the next level during the next two critical years, because:
- As your Vice Chair for the past four years, I’ve visited 27 of our 36 counties -- several more than once -- to listen, to learn, and to help develop training, and to serve as your advocate in Oregon and at the DNC.
- I will build a leadership team—officers, committee and CD chairs, and staff - for our Party and for Oregon.
- Having helped establish the GLBT and Faith Caucuses, I will continue to build sustaining relationships with underrepresented constituencies.
- Having worked at every level of a campaign, I understand what it takes to elect Democrats.
My promise:
- I will be a full-time chair, working for you;
- I will work to insure transparency in our party, seeking your ideas and keeping you informed;
- I will work with you to implement a thirty-six county strategy;
- I will continue to build strong relationships with our elected officials; and,
- I will work with you to continue insure diversity in our party -- including geographic diversity -- so our party really is the big tent it needs to be.
In all this, I’ll never forget our ultimate purpose: making our county, our state, our country, and our world, a better place, and that what matters, over time, is realistically assessing what is possible, and, getting things done.
Meredith
meredith@smithcompound.com
503-318-5043