CCDC's Core Beliefs and Values
The Chemung County Democratic Committee's
Core Beliefs and Values
Our Core Beliefs...
We support and affirm the importance of open and transparent government at all levels.
Cooperation with and respectful support of our member brothers and sisters in the pursuit of the goals of the committee and its individual Democratic members. We agree to fostering compassion, caring, and the dignity of each member, and by pursuing goals in the best interest of CCDC.
Equal opportunity, justice, and equality for all under our rules and bylaws in a manner consistent with honoring the differences in others of varying races, creeds, sexes, abilities,, ages, incomes, and educational levels.
We support a free public and quality education for every American.
We support a system of timely, high quality healthcare for all Americans as a basic human right.
We pledge to support, protect and defend our ecosystem and the environment, upon which all life on earth is dependent.
We support a government for all the people rather than a government suited only for plutocrats and the wealthy.
We support equal work for equal pay and fair labor conditions and standards for all Americans.
...and Values
We support an America that works first through international cooperation and diplomacy, using military force only as a last resort and then only with the full approval of the president as well as both houses of congress.
We support reproductive rights and a woman's right to have control over her own body.
We support election reform and a move away from privately funded campaigns to a system of transparent, publicly funded elections emphasizing ideas over campaign spending.
We acknowledge the importance of the American labor movement
and support efforts to strengthened collective bargaining efforts in America, opposing efforts to limit or weaken labor.
We support free public access to broadband and internet equality rights for all citizens regardless of income.
We support safe, affordable housing, quality medical care and safe, secure and humane living conditions for all.
We affirm and agree that there must be a balance of power between our president, the Congress, and the judicial branch of government, and recognize that overemphasis on militarism or unbridled executive power threatens our democracy.