Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

I see the Democrats are showing some signs of life here in the county. They are making strategies to retake Pickerington. Clearly our recently dear departed City Manager had those strong democratic ties and landed herself a cushy job with the Columbus Democrats and Columbus City Hall.

Below is an excerpt from the Lancaster Eagle Gazette. They are hurting here in Pickerington after losing their council seats that Democrats Washington, Postage and Hughes held for so long.

Although they were registered Republicans Lee Gray, Brian Fox and Craig Maxey all supported and held seats on the Pickerington City Council in recent years. All three of these so-called Republicans ran the Fairfield County Republican Party and openly supported the democrats in the first paragraph. Do the citizens of Pickerington really want to head back that way? Although no one knows how our current city manager votes in partisan elections there was no doubt with the former manager.


Now the alliance of the above mention former leaders will certainly enlist the financial aid of GUESS WHO????

That's right the builders!!

For those of you that think the problems at city hall were solved in November of 2003 you may want to rethink that attitude.

Is being a democrat a disqualification to run for council.

NO!!!!!!!

But the active members of this community need to be ready to give some litmus tests to new candidates this fall. The local republicans revolted against the Maxey's Gray's and Fox's this past year.

Are these same ''R'' now about to show up in sheeps clothing disguised as Democrats again? Fox has already campaigned for Dems in the past year.

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Democrats seek

candidates

Dale K. Graham, chairman of the Fairfield County Democratic Party, has appointed party Vice Chairman Jerry Woodgeard to head the party's Candidate Recruitment Committee for 2005 primary and general elections.

Offices to be elected in the Nov. 8, 2005 general election include: Lancaster city treasurer; Municipal Court judge (county-wide); Lancaster City Council president and nine Lancaster City Council members; one or more Pickerington City Council seats; two or three local school board seats in each of Fairfield County's nine public school districts; two trustees in each of Fairfield County's 13 townships; and four to council members in each village.

Any citizen within a jurisdiction may seek election to any applicable position. Some positions are filled in partisan elections and others in non-partisan votes.

Area Democrats interested in any elective position may contact Jerry Woodgeard at (740) 653-2845.

Originally published Friday, January 14, 2005

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Dems interested in Pickerington Call PATA first.




By NWR

Nothing to Fear

Although a lifelong Democrat (I cut my political teeth in 1968 campaigning for fellow Minnesotan Eugene McCarthy), I just began attending meetings of the Fairfield County Democratic Club last month.

The infamous Pickerington big three are nowhere in evidence. I doubt that any of them has been active in the local party for years. Former Mayor Postage, as I recall, converted to the Republican party just before his recent, and well-deserved, crushing defeat.

What I have found in the local Democratic party, instead, is a group of public-spirited citizens who share the same local concerns as my old Republican friends here in Pickerington, and the same national and international concerns as I have held all my life.

I plan to join the Fairfield County Democrats, and to work as hard as I am able for Democratic Presidential and Congressional candidates. I took the recent re-election of President Bush as a great personal defeat, and can no longer sit on the sidelines for such momentous matters.

However, at least for myself, I remain a firm supporter of Mayor Shaver and the current city council majority, who are turning this community around and reclaiming it for all of us. I worked for them in the last election, and I hope to do so in the future.

They deserve bipartisan support.

Dems to take back Dunlap?

Bruce

I am just trying to be helpful here but do to a lack of activity in the Democratic party recently it seems the Republicans have a few excess candidates. Do you folks want Terry Dunlap back? How about Ed Laramee?

You could get your new party off the ground with Mike Kiger. I would view this as an opportunity. You would have a sitting County Commissioner. It would be a nice short cut with name recognition. I would be very careful here though keep an eye out for Fox and his friends trailing close behind.

Bruce, we probably will differ on national issues but we do see eye to eye locally.

Good luck,



By NWR

LOL

We all do need to work together locally (and even nationally where possible). All it takes is honesty, common sense, and concern for the public good to see that we were headed in the wrong direction before, and that are headed in the right direction now.