Double Dip Soup With A Bad Taste

A matter of "picking your poison" in Middletown and with the county positions when voting IMO.

In many elections, when only one is running, do you still cast a vote? I don't if it's a lousy incumbant running simply to offer a shallow protest acknowledging their mediocre performance while in office. Example: Judges, Butler County Commissioners and all others running without competition. Very few deserve a second term.

If the incumbant is challenged, I will vote for the newcomer no matter what party they represent. That may also be a protest vote while attempting to remove the incumbant. Example: John Boehner, although, miraculously, he keeps winning, even though no one has been able to tell me what he's done for SW Ohio all these years and the Dems always seem to run an "out of the mainstream" professor from Oxford, somewhat too "unusual" to consider.

Midd. School Board? City Council? If I see a new name on the ballot, they get my vote while not punching the buttons for the existing members. Unfortunately, the new, decent candidates have been few and far between to inact change and the power of the inner circle voting block usually provides one-sided numbers in the win. I know what they have done and am willing to keep trying new people until (by some miracle), we get the right combination that will be radically different than the cookie-cutter, yes-nodding puppets that seem to always occupy these positions.

Ison is no different than Price is no different than all the other levy winning, rah-rah cheerleader supers we have had that have produced exactly squat toward results........and on and on it goes. They want redundancy in this town. No new ideas are fostered and people who are not like-minded thinking are not tolerated here. That's one reason why we are in the mess we are in. Same old time-proven failed direction implemented by the same old time-proven failed group of closed-minded candidates who support the inner circle doctrine of complacency supported by a massive dose of self-centered egotism. Most are recycled just as the superintendents of schools are. They make their rounds as candidates in various functions.

I believe Fred Sennett was good at this. Ann Mort is a pro at moving from place to place, occupying various committees including council and the school board. Some say she has been effective. Others can't find one pertinent thing she has done with the exception of being the self-appointed cheerleader for the city. Her comments on council had no depth, were shallow and not worth noting. Same as a school board member. I wonder why her so-called accomplishments have been so valued. Surface fluff never trumps actual content but it seems that's what Middletown accepts.

The choices we have in this city are like pests at a picnic. They are people that never go away, offer liability rather than asset and offer nothing positive to the cause. I offer the condition of the city and the schools as evidence of that.

When will the voters start voting for candidates that will offer the correct direction for the schools and city? This would go a long way in the selection of decent people in the city manager's slot as well as all key positions.   

There is a consortium in Middletown that has been successful in getting a "voting block" for people they want on certain committees or council. It's a difficult endever to break it. Bronston was able to break it because she had an organized plan in place. It can be done but it takes a real effort. You see how it works with the current city manager. I don't know why they spent the money on the guy from the college to put up the scam when they all ready had it all planned for Adkins to step in. I felt bad for the candidates that may have thought they had a chance.IMO

Vet
I agree..well said.
Nothing will change until the citizens get off the couch and vote for change.

As for Scott-Jones she should be replaced also. Picard only ran to further his legal career. He attached himself to the Bronston train. He's useless. Wasn't he the one that told Adkins he didn't want to get in a pi--ing contest with HUD. Then completely caved without question and drank the koolaid? Yeah, that how you stand up to them Danny boy. IMO