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Allan Kittleman's running for WHAAAAAATTTT?????

Well, one of the county's least known secrets is out.  He announced it and it's news, so of course Lindsey McPherson reported it, but this has been known for some time.

Allan Kittleman, if he gets the resources, which means 18 boxtops from Post Toasties and a aerial photo of Winnipeg, will run for County Executive in 2014.  Read more about it here.

It is the habit of underdog Republicans to announce their intentions early so they get out there and start campaigning.  And I expect Allan Kittleman to be a tenacious, door-to-door campaigner throughout Howard County, which is more amenable to such techniques as one may think.

Personally, I think Allan Kittleman would represent the Republicans' best hope for Governor.  But, with his support for marriage equality, that was not about to happen.

That stuff plays well in Howard County.  However, I think his best hope of winning the Executive's seat is to hope that Guy Guzzone and Courtney Watson knock the hell each other out of the primary, and the Democratic primary loser and his/her supporters break off and support Kittleman.  And even then, I think he only wins by a few percentage points.

Speaking of percentage points, I'd love to see the sample demographics of the poll he conducted that supposedly had him winning by 20 points.  Who did the poll, Quixote and Associates?  Seriously, I will wager that poll is slanted heavily in favor of Republicans and Independents, and away from Columbia and other Democratic-leaning areas.

This is a uphill battle to be sure, but, with the election of Chuck Ecker in 1990, the GOP has the ability to catch lightning in a bottle.  We'll see if it can strike another time.

In which it is illustrated that Allen Dyer acknowledges his methods

Well, setback for School Board Guy Allen Dyer yesterday.  He wanted to have his administrative law case thrown out yesterday, but the judge said, "Not so fast, my friend!"  The yeoman-like Sara Toth has all the news you can use on the matter here.

So the hearing to thrown Allen off the School Board (or not) continues!  But one interesting thing here.

On these pages, I have shared that Allen's method is to push people to the edge, and sometimes over.  That he purposefully comes right up to the line of acceptable behavior, and often tippy-toes over it.  And that overall, his behavior is that of a bully. 

As affirmation of my perceptions, I bring you Allen's own words, as reported in the article:

"The various allegations ... are almost instances of misconduct, but not quite," Dyer said in arguing for his motion. "That's important. ... It's like tinker toys, where if you have enough little instances of behavior, by themselves, are not sufficient basis for removal, but if you take all those instances of misbehavior and tack them all together, you all of a sudden have a valid reason ... many of those little tinker toy pieces deal with the quasi-legislative process."

I'd like some jerk now to tell me how I'm wrong or taking this out of context.  Because if you do, I'll invite you to come settle it with me, face to face and broadcast on YouTube.

Allen Dyer is a punk and any outcome other than his removal is ridiculous.