{"id":6814,"date":"2010-04-29T01:10:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T05:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=6814"},"modified":"2010-04-29T01:10:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T05:10:46","slug":"potential-change-in-danvilles-mayorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/29\/potential-change-in-danvilles-mayorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential change in Danville&#8217;s mayorship?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Editor&#8217;s Note: I rarely &#8220;bump up&#8221; a SouthsideCentral article since they&#8217;re available on the site &#038; Google indexes them well, but in this case I&#8217;m making an exception since this is a very hot topic. This article was originally published on: Apr 22, 2010 @ 23:20)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve connected the dots &amp; I believe there&#8217;s an undercurrent flowing to have a new Danville mayor after the May 4th election.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I believe there&#8217;s an organized effort underway for Larry Campbell to become mayor on the new term of Danville City Council. I&#8217;m basing this theory on Adam Tomer, Gary Miller, Alonzo Jones and John Gilstrap winning the election.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It takes five votes to win the mayorship.<\/li>\n<li>Current mayor Sherman Saunders has the support of Buddy Rawley, Fred Shanks, David Luther and Saunders himself (of course).<\/li>\n<li>Larry Campbell has aspirations of becoming mayor and would get votes from Alonzo Jones, John Gilstrap and Campbell himself.<\/li>\n<li>At the April 5th City Council meeting, Danville Regional Medical Center CEO Eric Deaton welcomed Larry Campbell to the hospital&#8217;s board of directors. Sherman Saunders was quite surprised by this news and asked &#8220;When did that happen?&#8221; Other council members shared the same surprise. If the mayor is unaware of a councilmember being appointed to the hospital&#8217;s board, there has to be some behind-the-scenes action going on. That&#8217;s when I started thinking how Larry Campbell got that position, and my thoughts immediately centered on that Dr. Gary Miller (councilman and physician well-connected with the hospital&#8217;s management staff) assisted in the process. With those thoughts and after talking with various sources, I believe Gary Miller would be a fourth mayoral vote for Larry Campbell.<\/li>\n<li>That leaves us with Adam Tomer. Based on Tomer&#8217;s Democratic party leanings, it wouldn&#8217;t be a stretch to have Tomer vote with Gilstrap, Jones &amp; Miller. That would give Campbell the fifth vote he needs to become mayor. The question is, what&#8217;s in it for Tomer to vote against Sherman Saunders. I&#8217;m theorizing that if Tomer voted for Larry Campbell as mayor, he&#8217;d be elected as vice-mayor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the first time in a very long time that there is an active challenge to change mayors in Danville. Even though it&#8217;s just my thought process, I&#8217;m 100% confident that this undercurrent is flowing. Nobody on the Campbell-for-mayor side has said anything yet so I&#8217;m hoping that this will trigger some kind of acknowledgement or denial by somebody.<\/p>\n<p>Let me make this clear: This is only my thought process and the theories that I&#8217;ve presented are only supported by the points I have made in this article. If I&#8217;m wrong on this, I&#8217;ll gladly admit it&#8230; but I know I&#8217;m right on what I&#8217;ve said. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Editor&#8217;s Note: I rarely &#8220;bump up&#8221; a SouthsideCentral article since they&#8217;re available on the site &#038; Google indexes them well, but in this case I&#8217;m making an exception since this is a very hot topic. 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