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In 1968, Abbie Hoffman set out for the Democratic Convention with what he called his intent to destroy the Democratic Party. Well it took 42 years, Hoffman died in 1989 of a self-inficted drug overdose, but last night the movement he began finally made it happen. We have been down before thier was the election of 1972, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1994, and 2002, but they were childs play compaired to this one. This one is going to leave a lasting effect that both the state and national party will have to go back to square on the raod to recovery. And how did we get here, well that is a tough one for me to understand. In 2006 and 2008 is seemed like Democrats we on the way to something great, but it is not be. We were able to have Democrats elected from districts that had not voted Demoract in many years, we had folks we had left the party preparing to come back home, we were looking like we would be able to break the bonds we had, since Hoffman and his crowd invaded the convention.

This coming Saturday the Democratic Party of Catawba County will hold its convention and elect new officers. Elizabeth Glynn is expected to become the new chairman, Eli has become a very active Democrat but she has her work cut out. Unlike other counties in the state Catawba county has not been able to turn recent party activism into electoral victories, with the exception of the NC House 88th district which includes parts of Catawba County and all of Alexander County, and is controlled by former Alexander County Democratic Sheriff Ray Warren the 2006 and 2008 elections have proven to be Republican sweeps. While some in the party are getting discouraged others are looking for new ways for the Democrats to become competitive.

Yesterday it what appeared to be a bombshell hit the blogs about Rep. Walter B. Jones, Jr. returning to the Democrats and some here were upset about it. Everyone needs to take a breath and be calm.