The Putnam County Democratic Women held their annual membership meeting on Saturday, May 18, at the Eleanor Town Hall. The featured speaker for the event was Steve Williams, Mayor of Huntington and Democrat candidate for Governor.

Delegate Mike Pushkin, Chair of the West Virginia Democratic Party, gave the opening remarks. He put emphasis upon the strength of the Democrat Party in West Virginia, expressing satisfaction with the crowd that turned out for the meeting and thanking for the invent. “If people tell you about the woes of the Democratic Party in West Virginia or that the Democratic Party is dead in West Virginia, I want you to look around the room and see all these folks gathered here in Eleanor, West Virginia, here in the heart of Putnam County,” Pushkin said. “Rumors of the demise of the Democratic Party are greatly exaggerated.”