Political analyst quits Democratic Party over rural inaction

Matt Barron, the chairman of the Chesterfield Democratic Town Committee in western Massachusetts, “has resigned and left the party due to what he says is the party’s blatant failure to address rural concerns,” said the Daily Hampshire Gazette. Barron, who runs a political consulting business, told the newspaper in Northhampton, Mass., that he acted “after… » Read More

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