Pa.'s new Democratic chairman focused on pivotal upcoming races, growing the party

Pennsylvania’s new Democratic chairman is pulling a page from Ronald Reagan’s playbook in an effort to unify and grow his party.

“We’ve got to get back to politics being a game of addition, trying to add to our coalitions and becoming a bigger tent,” Pennsylvania Democratic Chairman Eugene DePasquale said in an interview with TribLive.

Paraphrasing the former Republican president as he addressed ideological divisions among different factions in the Democratic Party, DePasquale said: “We’ve got to focus in on where we have 80% agreement on the issues. We’ve got to get back to understanding that if somebody agrees with us on all these core economic issues and some of the social issues, but maybe not all, that makes them a friend and an ally, not an enemy.”

DePasquale, 54, of Pittsburgh’s Uptown, was elected party chairman in early September. He replaced Sharif Street, a state senator from Philadelphia who has announced plans to run for Congress.




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