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Posted on 05/16/2007 8:16:19 AM PDT by Nextrush
......Incumbent county commissioners Lori Mitrick and Doug Kilgore have been fighting nearly four years to establish a park in Lower Windsor Township. On Tuesday, it appeared that they paid for that campaign with their jobs.
The unofficial vote totals showed incumbent commissioner and park opponent Steve Chronister leading with 13,533 votes, followed by a former commissioner, Chris Reilly, with 11,350, for the two slots available. Mitrick ws in third among the Republicans with 10,915 votes.....
Kilgore, the sole Democratic commissioner, trailed his two Democratic opponents, with 7,746 votes.
His challengers, Doug Hoke and Ned Grove, had respective vote counts of 10,017 and 7,915.......
The county's use of eminent domain to establish a park in Lower Windsor Township, on the site of Lauxmont Farms, was an issue dogging both Kilgore and Mitrick throughout the campaign. Eminent domain is the taking of property, against the owner's wishes if necessary, for public use. The owners of Lauxmont Farms, the Kohr family, have vehemently opposed the move....
Most of the candidates insisted during the campaign that eminent domain was not the main issue. But it clearly struck a chord with the public...........
The eminent domain issue was enough to prompt Russ Robertson, a warehouse worker from Lower Windsor Township, to get involved in the county commissioner campaign. He arrived at the Craley Fire Company to hand literature for Chronister and Richards at 7 a.m. Tuesday and planned to stay until the polls closed......
(Excerpt) Read more at ydr.com ...
Both incumbents (one GOP, one DEM) who supported the taking of the land went down.
Of these four, we elect the top three vote getters as our county commissioners with one party taking the majority.
This scheme was the idea of Mark Platts, who is the brother of Congressman Mark Platts (R-19th District PA). It will cost 50 million dollars or more if it happens and guess who gets to pay?
Congressman Platts served as a campaign co-chairman of the RINO land grabber Mitrick's losing effort.
The entire GOP leadership in this county abandoned incumbent Steve Chronister, who opposed eminent domain and he ended up getting the most votes in the primary yesterday. Some of the weathiest people in this county pumped tens of thousands of dollars to re-elect Mitrick and failed. They too, wanted to take family farm land to build this park.
Much of the GOP is rotten to the core now. Time for the grassroots to take it back.
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Sounds like someone should start organizing to oust Platts.
How can it be a park if they were going to build housing units on it? Sounds like another property tax grab to me.
We are fighting the same battle in Hamburg, right now.
Or time to put it to an end.
After all the GOP and the Dems have erected barriers to third parties (that are particularly high in PA.) If the grassroots take back the party, where will these goons go? Their own rules can be used against them.
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