Next month, the Ohio Democratic Executive Committee, composed mostly of party insiders, will meet in Columbus. There, the Executive Committee, which has members from across the state, will decide whether to endorse candidates in several 2017 mayoral races, including for Cincinnati and Cleveland. In light of the Executive Committee’s terrible track record of picking candidates, it should abstain from making any endorsements in the 2017 races, and indeed, it should abstain from making any endorsements in any contested primary races until after the Democratic base has spoken in the primary. Join me across the jump for some discussion of how the Executive Committee in Ohio is harming the party and why we should push not just the Ohio Democratic Party but parties throughout the nation to get out of the business of picking candidates in contested primaries.
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