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Wong won’t run for commissioner…after all
Less than 24 hours after being named president of the West Chester Twp. Board of Trustees, Lee Wong pulled a petition to run for county commissioner.
Less than 24 hours after that, he took his name out of the running.
Wong was confident when he called me late last week, announcing he would with a doubt turn in petition to run much earlier than the Feb. 18 deadline to place his name on the Republican ballot.
He immediately got to work, too, gathering signatures at the county GOP’s meeting that night. (As an aside, he even asked county reporter Josh Sweigart to sign the petition. Reporters don’t put political signs in their yards and we don’t sign petitions.)
Then he was made aware of a county employee policy, “Section 7.10: Political Activity” to be exact.
It says classified employees (of which Wong is in the county’s adult probation department) are prohibited from:
Candidacy for public office in a partisan election;
Candidacy for public office in a nonpartisan general election if the nomination of the candidacy was obtained in a partisan primary or through the circulation of nominating petitions identified with a political party;
Filing of petitions meeting statutory requirements for partisan candidacy to elective office;
Circulation of official nominating petitions for any candidate participating in a partisan election;
Service in an elected or appointed office in any partisan political organization; and much more.
To the last prohibition, Wong did serve on the GOP’s central committee, which is a political appointment. When I asked him about it last week, he said he’s let his spot “expire” so he’s not in violation of the county’s policy.
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By jon/ny
June 15, 2010 7:50 AM | Link to this
Sounds like it was WRONG for WONG in the first place. Now go out and from the song Bang a Gong and wear a Thong. WHEW that’s enough.