County Commissioners Charles Furmon and Donald Dixon; county engineer Gregory Wilkens; county treasurer Nancy Nix; county prosecutor Robin Piper; state Sen. Gary Cates; county recorder Danny Crank; and Clerk of Courts Cindy Carpenter all received endorsements from the Butler County GOP Central Committee last night.The sideshow, of course, was Rawnica Dillingham -- candidate against Chuck Furmon in the commissioner race -- who was denied entrance to the meeting by a Fairfield police officer because she wasn't a member of the Central Committee.
The Middletown Journal speaks with Rawnica and gets this quote:
"This election will not be decided by a handful of people in a meeting room," she said.Yes, I find it most instructive that the so-called "real" Republican in the race is disrespecting the Central Committee. Could it be that Team Dillingham is upset that their attempted coup of the Central Committee failed and now the candidate is attempting to smear the entire process?
I was unable to attend the meeting last night, but I guarentee you that there were more than "a handful" of Central Committee members in attendance last night. There were over 60 members at the last meeting where the only significant items on the agenda were changes to the by-laws.
Exit question: If Rawnica wasn't bothering to campaign for the endorsement, why did she even bother to show up for the vote? Waging a bridge burning campaign is not the way reform will take hold in the Butler County GOP. I am begining to suspect that reform may not be the motivation at play here...
