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Today's Journal...

Mayor, spots on council to have competition

By Andy Sedlak, Staff Writer
10:00 PM Thursday, August 25, 2011
MIDDLETOWN — Voters will have several choices when they vote for the city’s next mayor and three council seats.

Mayor Larry Mulligan will be challenged by Paul Nagy, while five candidates will campaign for two at-large seats. Two others — Mike Presta and Ann Mort — will seek to represent Middletown’s First Ward. Thomas Allen, the seat’s appointee following the death of Councilman Jim Armbruster, announced Aug. 16 he would not seek re-election.

Aside from Mulligan, councilman Daniel Picard and councilwoman Anita Scott Jones are seeking re-election. They’ll face Eddie Todd Moore, Nick Kidd and Joseph Mulligan for at-large seats.

The deadline for candidates to file their petitions was 4 p.m. Thursday at the Butler County Board of Elections.

Mort, who served on the Middletown school board in the mid-1980s, said she’s aware of the time commitment that accompanies the post. She said the issues facing Middletown — dwindling funds and a lack of jobs — are the same most cities are facing.

“Henry Ford had a statement: ‘Don’t find fault, find a remedy,” she said. “I think if more of us worked toward finding a remedy we could get things done a little faster.”

Picard, the Fourth Ward’s representative for the past year and a half, said he is seeking an at-large seat to ensure his presence for the next four years. In the 2013 election, there will only be two seats up for re-election. This is because the city’s charter had been changed to reduce council from seven to five seats, and to do away with voting by ward.

“I feel good about my impact and I want to make sure I’m around another four years,” he said.

Jessica Whitt, a 24-year-old Middletown resident, said job creation will be the most critical issue candidates will face while campaigning.

“If there are no jobs, there is no Middletown,” she said.

THIS ARTICLE BY ANDY SEDLAK BRIEFLY MENTIONS MR. NAGY, MR. PRESTA AND A FEW OTHERS, BUT SEDLAK MAKES SURE WE GET A LITTLE LARGER DOSE OF MORT AND PICARD. IS IT ME OR IS IT OBVIOUS THAT THIS DAM NEWSPAPER IS THE WHIPPING POST FOR A SELECT FEW IN THIS BURG WHO ARE APPARENTLY TELLING THE PAPER WHAT TO PRINT? IS THIS NEWSPAPER THAT INTIMIDATED BY THESE MMF PUPPETS LIKE MULLIGAN AND MORT? WHY THE BLURB FROM MORT AND PICARD AND, LIKE ALWAYS, NOTHING OFFERED FROM THE FOLKS WHO ARE "OUTSIDE THE LOOP". WHERE'S THE EQUAL TIME JOURNAL?

The Urinal simply knows who is the most willing moyhpieces with commentary and opine. Ann Mort has not met a microphone she did like, you be the judge on Mr. Picard. Ms. Mort's commentary was actually hurtful to a thinking mind in the sense she said Middletown is going exactly the same as every city in the country? Oh really? West Chester is suffering the same impact, Indian Hills, Oakwood, etc. If only we all would pull together, and just adopt the 300 people who run Middletown's attitude, we'd all get along fine, and the remedy would be found. The same woman who said washing the streets and woodwork in town would cure the ills from Forbes rating Middletown was one of the fastest dying cities...how did that campaign go? As they say in Texas, "all hat, no cattle."

Spot on Mr. Beagle. I am certain you know the Managing Editor or Publisher at the Atlanta Constitution is black, a flaming liberal, whom has national notority for her bias, one sided inaccuracies which portray constantly, the GOP, whites, and men, in a negative fashion, which are never supported by a grain of evidence nor fact. Her goal and editorial theme is to make the Atlanta Constitution and the Cox publications akin to the Huffington Post and New York Times, with lower standards and journalistic ethics. As for the Journal, they simply grab the first mouth that comes to mind.  

Don't change a thing Mr. Beagle.

Richard Saunders wrote: The most likely case is that the expert investigative journalists at that award winning newspaper could not figure out how to contact Mr. Nagy or Mr. Presta.

I can only speak for myself:

I am not hard to find, although my number is NOT listed in the Kettering phone book if that is the only place they looked.    

How about starting with city owned property first so the rest of us can see the model she would have us look like.  Seen city hall lately.