Annual picnic features Strickland, McLin
ABOVE: Former Ohio First Lady Frances Strickland plays a song on the guitar — supporting her husband Ted Strickland’s bid for U.S. Senate — as Becky Allen, who announced her retirement as the local party treasurer, and former Bellefontaine mayor Gail Hamilton applaud at the conclusion of the Logan County Democratic Party’s annual picnic Tuesday evening at Southview Park. HOME PAGE SLIDE SHOW PHOTO: Ohio’s Democratic Party vice-chair Rhine McLin, standing, greets former Ohio First Lady Frances Strickland as she listens to former city councilman Jim Sanford, right. (EXAMINER PHOTOS | REUBEN MEES)
Two fiery female faces of the Ohio Democratic Party looked to energize local voters with inspirational speeches interspersed with campfire tunes on Tuesday evening.
Former Ohio First Lady Frances Strickland, whose husband Ted Strickland is looking to unseat Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. Rob Portman on Nov. 8, offered insights into her husband’s political platform, while picking out tunes on the guitar that also poked fun at Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
She urged voters “Don’t be a grump who votes for Trump” and invoked biblical verse in her Kentucky accent as she likened him to Sampson whose power would be lost when Democrats “cut off his hair.”
But the thrust of her message — and that of Ohio Party Vice-Chair Rhine McLin — was to get out the vote to support Ted Strickland and Hillary Clinton.
The difference between Democrats and Republicans is about helping people, Mrs. Strickland said.
“As Democrats, we think about other people,” she said. “We care about people having access to quality health care. We care about good public education. We think beyond ourselves, about our fellow people and the communities we live in.”
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