By: Sean Balewski
sbalewski@gmail.com
It has been a long year and a half for Doug Kelly, the Executive Director of the Ohio Democratic Party. Doug and his family moved from Cleveland to Columbus, so that Doug could spearhead a project aimed at jumpstarting the Democratic party in Ohio. Long before the Clinton-Obama drama over who would be the party's nominee, the Democrats had been raising money and organizing support, so that when the nominee was announced, the presidential campaign in Ohio could hit the ground running.
From my one-on-one time with Doug, he seemed very confident and determined to not only get Senator Obama elected, but to bring home the Buckeye state for the Democrats. As Doug joked, in Ohio, this will be the only year that Ohioans will be saying, "GO BLUE!!!"
But besides the Presidential race, Doug says the Democratic party is also working hard to get all the other Democrats running in the state of Ohio elected. Because as Doug says, those who work in the State and local levels of government actually have greater impacts on the daily lives of citizens.
As Doug jokes, the best way to get all of this promoting done is by being locked in a small room and by being glued to a phone. And when we were at Ohio Democratic Party Headquarters, that's exactly what Doug was in between doing. He had taken a quick break to do our interview, but then as we were leaving, he was back working the phones.
And so, in the final weeks and days before the election, Doug said that his crew would be still doing what they had been doing all election season, but special additional plans were in the works; Doug just couldn't comment on them.
We'll see on November 4th if Doug's Democrats have done their duty....
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