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Chipper3 - I am a little annoyed at Deanna because of her indeciveness (did I spell that correct) as to whether or not to run for re-election or not. Let me first say that the letter written by Cindy Trimble, Chairman of the Beacon GOP, a couple of weeks ago to the Beacon Free Press was uncalled for and selfish. I believe it harmed the Republican candidate in the 1st Ward - Andrew Forman. What did Cindy accomplish by writing this letter? Other than to rile up people like Deanna and Marlene.

For Deanna to act as if the Beacon GOP abandoned her couldn't be further from the truth. Another strike against the GOP Chairman, she had an arbitrary date for Deanna to make up her mind as to whether to run or not. Deanna in the past likes to wait for the last possible minute to notify the party her intentions whether to run or not. In the past, the GOP had no choice, because there really weren't any candidates coming forward to make the committment to run. That wasn't the case in 2009. Several people stepped up and showed interest. Deanna wants to tell everyone the GOP gave her the boot. The reality is, Deanna just can't make a decision.

For her to actively campaign against Andrew Forman and come up with stories like the GOP gave her the boot shows NO CLASS for Deanna. This is after the party - CARRIED HER - on every single election!

Jerry Landisi is an excellent candidate (which is why the GOP recruited him in 2007 to run). He wasn't exactly up front with his participation during this process either. For him to accuse the "Forman family" of "stacking the deck" for Andrew Forman to get the GOP nomination for the 1st Ward again - couldn't be further from the truth. The party actually nominated Justin Riccobono to run in this ward and had asked Andrew to run At-Large. After Andrew explained to the committee of his lack of time to campaign city-wide - they switched the two. But Landisi tells people that somehow the Formans orchestrated this.

My point is, Cindy made a mistake requiring these candidates to make their decision by such an early date - Deanna probably wouldn't have made up her mind with ANY date Cindy had picked. Alot of this mumbo - jumbo could have been avoided with a common sense apporach.

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