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At the last minute, Jim Foster tries to jump in 8th Council District race
Foster claims that Democrat Cindy Bass - the winner of this year's seven-way primary race for the 8th Council District seat - is "not responding to anybody's communication" and therefore is "using the [current Councilwoman Donna Reed] Miller playbook."
At the last minute, Jim Foster tries to jump in 8th Council District race
When Jim Foster ran as an Independent in the 8th Council District race in 2007, he cobbled together enough signatures to get on the ballot in just 10 days. That challenge wasn't formidable enough, apparently. This Tuesday, Foster began collecting signatures to join the race for the 8th as an Independent — that's just six days before Monday's deadline.
Foster, who is the publisher of Germantown Newspapers, says he made the last-minute decision at the behest of community members. He claims that Democrat Cindy Bass — the winner of this year's seven-way primary race for the 8th Council District seat — is "not responding to anybody's communication" and therefore is "using the [current Councilwoman Donna Reed] Miller playbook."
"From what we can discern," Foster wrote in an email to community members this morning, "the future for the citizens of the 8th Council District will be another developer-financed, inside dealing, public-be-damned operation with most decisions done in the dark."
Joe Corrigan, a spokesman for Bass, responded, "We look forward to running just as robust a campaign this fall" as they did earlier this year, and "building on our broad base of support."
Foster will need to collect 750 signatures by Monday to run as an Independent.
Foster told me he wouldn't get in the race unless someone gave him $250,000. Maybe the Democrats did. Brian Rudnick Green Party 8th district council candidate. http://chestnuthill.patch.com/articles/brian-rudnick-fights-to-get-on-8th-district-ballot— buhrayin
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