(Livingston) County GOP chair runs for supervisor (RINO hunting)

Daily Press and Argus (Livingston County MI) ^ | 4-13-04 | Kevin Shopshire

[Dan from Michigan]

County GOP chair runs for supervisor
By Kevin Shopshire
DAILY PRESS & ARGUS

Hamburg Township resident Cindy Pine has thrown down the gauntlet in announcing late Monday her intention to run for Hamburg Township supervisor.

Pine, the chair of the Livingston County Republican Committee since November 2002, said incumbent Howard Dillman is not doing the job he was elected to do by making the position part time and hiring a deputy supervisor, and she is calling for new leadership in the township.

"I'm running to be a full-time supervisor who will serve the township residents," she said. "That's in stark contrast to the present supervisor, Howard Dillman, who hired a deputy to fulfill his responsibilities when he accepted employment in Lansing.

"That action angered a lot of people in our township and earned us the ridicule of the local newspaper," she said.

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Pine was elected to the 36-member GOP executive committee almost three years ago, and she was elected as the chair almost two years ago.

Pine received her bachelor's and master's degrees in anthropology from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. She has worked for the Agency for International Affairs and is the current administrator of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Ann Arbor.

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[Dan from Michigan]

The Hamburg Township Supervisor position is a full time job. Dillman should have resigned when he took the job in Lansing(LCC I believe) which is also full time.

The deputy he hired was also a self described "Coleman Young Democrat". That makes Dillman a "RINO" in my book. The citizens in Hamburg elected a republican for supervisor, not a democrat.

I'm with the county GOP, although I do not live in Hamburg. Cindy has done a great job for us in the party, and we had a sweep in 2002 election-wide here. We're in the black moneywise, have minimal infighting, and are active in registering voters(This is a GOP county). She'll run the township very well if she's elected.

She is also solidly conservative and is no RINO. That I can vouch for 100%.

[Clintonfatigued]

Good for Ms. Pine, I wish her well. BTW, I've heard rumors that Vernon Ehlers may retire from Congress this year. Have you heard anything on that front?

[Dan from Michigan]

I haven't heard anything there. I don't have many inside contacts out there, either, so I'll probably first hear it in the papers.

[Dan from Michigan]

Dillman's not seeking another term.