Janet Sullivan elected as chair of Flagler's Democratic Executive Committee

Janet Sullivan becomes the new chair of the executive committee.

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| 4:06 p.m. December 18, 2020

Janet Sullivan, new chair of the Flagler County Democratic Executive Committee. Courtesy photo

Palm Coast Observer
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by: Merill Shapiro

Janet Sullivan has become the new chair of the Flagler County Democratic Executive Committee following the election and installation of officers for the upcoming four years. Following presidential elections, the Democratic Executive Committee re-organizes with the goal of moving Flagler County forward together.

Joining Sullivan in the Executive Committee leadership are Ralph Lightfoot, vice-chair; Ellen Teller, state committeewoman; John Caruso, state committeeman; Kathy Logan, secretary; and Mark Fleet, treasurer. They, in turn, lead a network of precinct leaders arrayed across the Flagler County and tasked with representing the Democratic Party on a neighborhood level.

Upon leaving the White House in January 1953, President Harry Truman told reporters, “The most important job I ever had was precinct captain.” A generation later, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Tip O’Neill (Massachusetts) told a group assembled in his office, “All politics is local!”