This election was over when the write in candidate didn’t follow instructions on filing petitions. She can whine about the local election board screwing her but she lost at the county level too.


She deserves credit for trying but that’s about it. From what I’ve seen and heard she has yet to define how she would or would have fixed things that Parkinson did his way. I call that the Kamala Harris syndrome.

She has one strong supporter who answers for her more than she does herself but the problem is, he just doesn’t do his homework. I think he’s a write in candidate too so maybe it’s the birds of a feather philosophy.

You’re right about the union bug. It was a big deal back when unions were strong here. Now, with a minimum wage mentality in town, most think the union bug is another type of flu.

Mrs O feeds me the FB news so I can’t speak too well to the page you speak of. It seems like the council member who operates that page does indeed change the name of it during election season. She’s the one who called a business owner batshit crazy so she’s not too sharp.

Parkinson will obviously win this election. In my view he would have won even if the realtor would have been on the ballot. She may be a good real estate agent but she’s out of her league and experience level to think she could be mayor. Just read her post. The spelling and grammar errors would make an English teacher crazy.

As for the young man running against Mr. McDowell, that’s laughable. He can’t decide what he wants to be in politics.

All that being said, so sad in a town of this size that we don’t have reasonably intelligent people challenging incumbents. There is a challenger in Ward 5, and of course the one I talked about but are the other aldermen challenged at all? Why don’t people who want change running? Why did no one challenge the school board incumbents?

We all like to gripe but not so many want to help.