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Monday Politics Chat: The New Leadership Of The Hamilton County Democratic Party

91.7 WVXU | By Howard Wilkinson

Published June 11, 2018 at 8:12 AM EDT

Saturday, WVXU politics reporter Howard Wilkinson was at the Hamilton County Democratic Party central committee where the party made history by electing its first team of women as leaders - co-chairs Connie Pillich and Gwen McFarlin. McFarlin and Pillich are replacing Tim Burke, who retired about nearly a quarter of a century as party chair. Wilkinson talked with New Director Maryanne Zeleznik Monday about what changes may be coming to the party.

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Howard Wilkinson

Howard Wilkinson joined the WVXU News Team after 30 years of covering local and state politics for The Cincinnati Enquirer. A native of Dayton, Ohio, Wilkinson has covered every Ohio governor’s race since 1974 as well as 12 presidential nominating conventions. His streak continued by covering both the 2012 Republican and Democratic conventions for 91.7 WVXU. Along with politics, Wilkinson also covered the 2001 Cincinnati race riots; the Lucasville Prison riot in 1993; the Air Canada plane crash at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in 1983; and the 1997 Ohio River flooding. The Cincinnati Reds are his passion. "I've been listening to WVXU and public radio for many years, and I couldn't be more pleased at the opportunity to be part of it,” he says.

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