July 2025
June was a BUSY month - and still a few more events to go! If any one of you is as tired as I am, use that as a reason to recruit more volunteers - more people equal less individual exhaustion! But here's the other thing - how wonderful it is to have great friends to staff so many worthwhile events for the Dem party in our county? When we celebrate our Party together, energy stays high and helps take us out of the hourly assaults coming at us from our federal government.
When I began my journey of activism with the HCDP, I worked the polls as a judge or clerk for many years. Since then, I have learned A LOT. I want to share some of what I've learned.
Our first 2025 parade was on June 7th in Amo. The HCDP owns the float we use in parades. It has wooden benches with a wooden barrier on the sides, so people don't fall out - sitting on a steel trailer. It is currently the most valuable concrete asset the HCDP owns. It is maintained by a self-appointed group (Eric S, Stan A, Chuck D) - you know, checking tires and hitches, painting, putting on sign fasteners and flag holders, and such. It is not required to be licensed as a vehicle, as it is only used for parade purposes. It is used in four parades each year - Amo, Brownsburg, Pittsboro, and Plainfield. It is stored outdoors on a farm in Brownsburg, with rental of $50.00/month. Those who pull the float are charged with a big responsibility - besides safety, they are pulling the biggest asset we have! They use their own vehicle to pull the float - they go pick it up and get it to the set-up location, and then return it and cover it with the tarp to await the next trip. There is room for ~16 adults to sit on the float, 2-3 may sit with the driver in the truck, and others walk the route.
Walkers can hand out candy, water, info, dog treats, or just greet people. Candy is a big thing for parades, and a big expense in the budget. It would be wonderful to have 40+ democrats walk in a parade.
Since the garage sale is complete - which brought in $2,721.65!!, that leaves the HH Dinner as the last big group fundraiser for the year. Tonight (6/13), a few of us are going to the IN Dems HH Dinner at the Indiana Roof Ballroom. Our county party HH Dinner is not as fancy as the one for the state party, but, like the state party, it is typically a big fundraiser. And this year, it has a high bar to become the biggest since the DDD Raffle brought in a little over $6,000. The date this year is September 26th - so save that date!! We will have 2 speakers this year- Senator Evan Bayh and Destiny Wells. We will celebrate our successes and each other and eat good food. I urge you to attend, and I hope you attend - it will be fun!
As always, thanks for all the hours of time and work and effort that are put in to moving this party forward.
