David Pepper is an author, political strategist, lawyer, and former Chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party. But there’s a great chance you know him as the whiteboard guy. On his popular Substack, Pepperspectives, he slices through the wild complexity of the week’s political controversies with a whiteboard and an erasable pen (and some of the best political writing on the platform). He knows Ohio. He knows politics. And he knows that only the simplest message will ever break through the chaos.
For around a year and a half, he’s collaborated with Kevin Necessary, an award-winning editorial cartoonist, to produce some of the most prescient, compelling work of political commentary of our time.
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Kevin and David joined Lincoln Square’s Lisa Senecal to talk about the power of the image, political storytelling, and why you should always be on the lookout for collaborators. They also pay tribute to David’s mother, who, it turns out, was an icon in democratic politics.
