Mr. Bryant,
Thanks so much for your informative Letter to the Editor in the SE Messenger December 31, 2001. This is exactly the kind of information the voters need to understand the state of campaign financing in Pickerington. However, you only told part of the story. In speaking with a candidate in a race you didn?’t outline, I was told that what the media published is a selective list of contributors to the candidates. Perhaps you could take your enlightenment of the Council race a step further and show us the contribution per vote of all the races. I know there was probably a lot of work that went into what you provided us already and I hate to be the one to ask you to do more, but you understand that all the political entities and the campaigns for elections are interwoven into the same fabric. Perhaps by showing the contribution per vote of all races, it will become even clearer just how much can be spent to purchase a seat for a candidate. Perhaps, even, it will show that other candidates could afford to spend more than $20 per vote to another?’s $1.
Equally or even more important is not just that someone can spend 66 cents per vote in a successful race or in excess of $10 per vote in a losing effort, but where did that money come from? The information I have read, albeit slanted as usual by the local media, is that there is a core group of significant contributors. Not personally knowing some of the individuals named, if you take their names at face value, there are obvious connections. Some appear that they may be business partners. Some appear that they have a vested interest in the outcomes of elections simply because of the business they are in and the gains that can be had by being owed thanks by a successful candidate.
Well, I don?’t want to sound too defamatory by continuing along this line of thought, so I?’ll close by saying that there is the possibility that the whole picture of who supports whom in the elected offices throughout NW Fairfield County through cash and other political contributions would most assuredly be fodder to keep this discussion forum humming for quite some time.
Let me say one last thing, and this is not to detract form Mr. Bryant?’s efforts, but his letter was placed next to one from a Ms. Barlag from Westerville. I won?’t spend a lot of time thanking her for her glowing comments which read like the script from the Citizens for a Strong you-know-what, but I will just ask her since she is a loyal supporter of Pickerington politicians: if you truly, truly believe that they ?“?…have Pickerington?’s best interest at heart?”, just answer this: is it in Pickerington?’s best interest to take the most suitable commercial developable land, wholly in the PLSD and rezone it residential? Yes, I mean Diley/Painter/Kohler. Can you Ms. Barlag, or anyone else make a case for that asinine decision being in our best interest?
By Maverick
Thanks so much for your informative Letter to the Editor in the SE Messenger December 31, 2001. This is exactly the kind of information the voters need to understand the state of campaign financing in Pickerington. However, you only told part of the story. In speaking with a candidate in a race you didn?’t outline, I was told that what the media published is a selective list of contributors to the candidates. Perhaps you could take your enlightenment of the Council race a step further and show us the contribution per vote of all the races. I know there was probably a lot of work that went into what you provided us already and I hate to be the one to ask you to do more, but you understand that all the political entities and the campaigns for elections are interwoven into the same fabric. Perhaps by showing the contribution per vote of all races, it will become even clearer just how much can be spent to purchase a seat for a candidate. Perhaps, even, it will show that other candidates could afford to spend more than $20 per vote to another?’s $1.
Equally or even more important is not just that someone can spend 66 cents per vote in a successful race or in excess of $10 per vote in a losing effort, but where did that money come from? The information I have read, albeit slanted as usual by the local media, is that there is a core group of significant contributors. Not personally knowing some of the individuals named, if you take their names at face value, there are obvious connections. Some appear that they may be business partners. Some appear that they have a vested interest in the outcomes of elections simply because of the business they are in and the gains that can be had by being owed thanks by a successful candidate.
Well, I don?’t want to sound too defamatory by continuing along this line of thought, so I?’ll close by saying that there is the possibility that the whole picture of who supports whom in the elected offices throughout NW Fairfield County through cash and other political contributions would most assuredly be fodder to keep this discussion forum humming for quite some time.
Let me say one last thing, and this is not to detract form Mr. Bryant?’s efforts, but his letter was placed next to one from a Ms. Barlag from Westerville. I won?’t spend a lot of time thanking her for her glowing comments which read like the script from the Citizens for a Strong you-know-what, but I will just ask her since she is a loyal supporter of Pickerington politicians: if you truly, truly believe that they ?“?…have Pickerington?’s best interest at heart?”, just answer this: is it in Pickerington?’s best interest to take the most suitable commercial developable land, wholly in the PLSD and rezone it residential? Yes, I mean Diley/Painter/Kohler. Can you Ms. Barlag, or anyone else make a case for that asinine decision being in our best interest?
By Maverick
