Local politics always present
Local editorials from 50 years ago are being reprinted every Monday and Tuesday in this column. This editorial appeared in the Evening Standard, a predecessor of the 蘑菇视频 on Feb. 7, 1967.
If you check into many of our county appointive groups — authorities and commissions — you will find that politics has much to do with the appointments.
As soon as there is a change in control at the top — the county commissioners — there are changes in the appointees.
The same happens in boroughs, townships and cities, though we do feel that Uniontown’s appointive groups — though politically inclined — think less politically and look at the job as something that must be accomplished.
Possibly it is because of their business, educational and qualified backgrounds.
When South Union Township supervisors appointed a recent township planning commission they attempted to split up evenly the two factions of the Democratic Party, each to receive representation. But they made a mistake when they named too many people to the commission just to keep the two political factions, happy.
A look at the county’s housing authority and redevelopment authority are matters of record. The changes in early 1964 when a new commissioner trio took control of the county were made to favor the group in opposition to the regular Democratic organization.
Then late in 1966 when the voting power changed in the commissioners’ office the trend was to eliminate the non-regular Democrats.
We feel one of the better appointive groups in the district is the South Union Sewage Authority. Certainly there is politics attached to it, but the five people all have backgrounds which are useful to authority action.
Politics always rears up. The citizen who will not participate should be grateful that so much good has been accomplished for him despite the political maneuvering of these appointive commissions and authorities.