Ohio Dems tap 1st female chair, 1st Black executive director
Associated PressCOLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Democratic Party is hoping that two historic picks last week — its first female chair and its first Black executive director — can restore its candidates’ fortunes against the state’s dominant Republicans while also healing internal party divisions. The choices of Summit County councilmember Liz Walters as chair and Malik Hubbard as interim executive director followed a bitter clash with groups representing the party’s Black legislators and youth voters. Under Timken’s leadership, the GOP has retained control of both state legislative chambers and every statewide executive office, as well as delivering Ohio’s 18 electoral votes to President Donald Trump, who won the state by 8 percentage points last year. Andre Washington, a union field representative and president of the A. Philip Randolph Institute’s state chapter who is also Black, was elected first vice chair.
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