DePasquale says Democrats 'can compete and win everywhere' in 2026 elections
State Democratic Chair and former Auditor General Eugene DePasquale was a highlight of Saturday's Indiana County Democratic Picnic at Blue Spruce Park.
The annual Indiana County Democratic Committee picnic Saturday at Blue Spruce Park brought in singers from Mercer County and a speaker with roots in York and Allegheny counties.
The Good Trouble Singers came from Mercer County to serenade the gathering, while Eugene DePasquale, former state representative and auditor general, was the featured speaker.
“When I was first elected chair, I made clear that the Pennsylvania Democratic Party was committed to showing up everywhere and supporting our local county parties in every corner of the Commonwealth,” DePasquale said Saturday, “as we build a coalition that will propel our candidates to victory up and down the ballot in 2026 and beyond.”
It is the latest event bringing a statewide party figure to Indiana, in a year that also featured national party Vice Chair and Philadelphia state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta to Chestnut Ridge Resort for the party’s spring brunch.
“I’m honored to have spent the evening with the Indiana County Dems because when Democrats show up and organize everywhere, we can compete and win everywhere,” DePasquale said, “and that’s exactly what we’re building in this new era of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party.”
Other notables at the picnic included three candidates for office in Indiana County, Alan Bradstock (Congress, 14th District), Trajan Jones (state House, 62nd District) and Lisa Gourley (state House, 66th District).
The Good Trouble Singers draw their name from the late Georgia U.S. Rep and civil rights icon John Lewis, and his call to make “good trouble, necessary trouble.”
They were part of a day where participants could take part in a silent auction and a pie auction, and dodge the storms sweeping through west-central Pennsylvania Saturday evening.