DuPage Democrats

They did it!


" Operation: Turn DuPage Blue can no longer be considered an offshoot of the county's Democratic Party.

They're running things now.

The splinter group's chairman, Bob Peickert, handily defeated incumbent DuPage County Democratic Party Chairman Rob Bisceglie at Wednesday night's convention in Wheaton.
In all, 215 of the nearly 250 Democratic precinct committeemen showed up to vote for new party leadership.

"I think what this signifies is the Democratic Party is more united than ever before," Peickert said shortly after the results were announced. "This is a party to be reckoned with. This is the biggest turnout of elected Democrat leaders in DuPage ever."

Peickert's group was formed a little more than a year ago in an effort to grow the Democratic Party in DuPage County. Among the successes Operation: Turn DuPage Blue helped garner is the doubling of elected precinct committeemen and more voters picking Democratic ballots over Republican ballots in the Feb. 5 primary. That was widely regarded as a first in anyone's memory." (Jake Griffin- Daily Herald)