Florence Area Democratic Club

Mission Statement

Our mission is to promote core Democratic values of economic fairness and equality of opportunity in an active and inclusive Democracy where everyone thrives.

Objectives to accomplish our mission include:

• Empowering residents of the greater Florence area by providing activities, events and meetings to increase awareness of issues facing our community, state and country. 
• Organizing voters to elect candidates who put our core Democratic values into action.
  
• Holding elected officials accountable to the values and principles of our party through public advocacy, coalition work and our endorsement process.
  
• Asking candidates seeking our support to pledge to put our shared Democratic values into practice.
  

"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education."
  

                  ~ Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Charles Jarvis, 1820