This little ditty should cost Republican John Hagan big time with Stark County voters in his race against Democrat Pete Ferguson for the county commissioner seat that Jane Vignos is vacating.
Remember, Pete Ferguson is not exactly a favorite of the STARK COUNTY POLITICAL REPORT (The Report), but being up against Hagan, he keeps looking better and better.
Here's a guy (Hagan), who holes up in Columbus not communicating with constituents, especially those with hard questions, and decides out of the clear blue sky that it is time to correspond with the folks back home - even with folks who are on the voter registration rolls as Democrats.
Democrats? A breed John Hagan really does loathe. In fact, John Hagan doesn't like anyone in the political sphere but "card carrying Republicans" who have a strong dose of personal loyalty to him.
But when you are about to be out of a job, one pulls out all the stops to show you have had a "road to Damascus experience."
"Now," he muses to himself (The Report speculates), "would be a great time to ask for constituent input?"
What for, The Report asks? To pass it on to Todd Snitchler (most likely) or Celeste DeHoff? Hagan certainly won't be acting on it.
"Aah," he continues his thinking to himself, "voters will not connect my sudden interest in dialogue to my running for Stark County commissioner?" Somewhat worried about voter backlash, he goes on - "the timing is merely co-incidental." "Politicians do have conversion experiences - don't they?" prolonging the rationalizing inner conversation.
For voters who believe the Hagan mailing 41 days before election day is merely co-incidental, then salesmen dealing in Florida swamp land cannot be far from your door.
Question: Don't you just love arrogant, insulting, self-justifying and rationalizing politicians like Hagan?
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