The Summit County Republican Party's Primary Election ticket made a strong showing in today's September 11 primary, defeating opposition mounted by Kevin Coughlin's supporters.
In the City of Green, members of Coughlin's team backed Democrat Andy Padrutt and tax-dodging convict Chris Slates against the Summit County Republican Party's candidate, retired bank executive Republican Dick Norton.
Some of Coughlin's team members even sent out a misleading flier to Green Republicans endorsing Democrat Padrutt (http://keepsummitcountyrepublicansstrong.blogspot.com/2007/09/couhglins-team-backs-democrat-padrutt.html). The Coughlin team (including David Reilly and sitting Mayor Dan Croghan) also engaged in other "dirty tricks" to put Slates on the ballot (http://keepsummitcountyrepublicansstrong.blogspot.com/2007/08/who-are-democrats-dancing-bears.html).
The Coughlin team's smoke and mirrors did not work. Dick Norton, with nearly $25,000 in support from the Summit County GOP on top of his own fundraising, lead the Green primary ticket, beating Padrutt by more than 13% and Slates by 45.2%. Norton and Padrutt will advance to the November ballot. Slates, Susan Ridgeway and Dave Lauby will not advance to the November ballot.
Coughlin endorser, Daniel Dismuke, lost a 3-way primary battle for Stow Law Director to Summit County Republican Party's candidate Brian A. Reali. Reali lead the ticket with 63.6% of the vote. Democrat Christina Gray garnered 29.5% of the vote. The Coughlin team brought out 90 votes (or 6.9% of the vote) for Dismuke.
Elsewhere in the County, in the race for Clerk of the Falls Municipal Court, Republican State Representative John Widowfield beat his primary opponent 83.8% to 16.1%. Widowfield will face Democrat Lisa Zeno Carano and seven other women who filed as independent candidates in this November's election. Local Democrats chose not to oppose Akron Municipal Court Judge John Holcomb or Cuyahoga Falls Municipal Court Judge Kim Hoover in this November's election.
Clearly, the Coughlin folks know more about losing elections than they let on. Elsewhere in the County, Republican candidates competed well against Democrats in non-partisan jurisdictions. There were many disappointments for local Democrats in today's election results. It looks to be a promising fall election season for Summit County Republicans.
Overheard from the Coughlin camp - Coughlin claims that he still does not have a candidate for Chairman. Either he's lying or there's no one of stature who's dumb enough to let himself be associated with Kevin. Better not look behind that curtain, folks, you may just see Toto - not even a broken-down old snake oil salesman, just a little terrier.
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Kevin's leadership and judgment continues to prove itself unworthy of support.
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