Comments on: District 5 Commission Candidate Packy Mitchell Drops Republican Party

By: MICHAEL WEAVER

MICHAEL WEAVER — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:07:38 +0000

BEST OF LUCK TO ALL THAT ARE RUNNING. CHOICE IS A GOOD THING. ME….I’M GOING FOR KEVIN WHITE. I THINK HE IS A GOOD PERSON AND THE BEST ONE FOR THE JOB. NO MATTER WHO YOU VOTE FOR …JUST GO VOTE!

By: SAM

SAM — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:51:43 +0000

This move does not change my opinion of Packy one bit – I was voting for him in the beginning and I will be voting for him in the end. What does it matter if he is affiliated with one party or another???? I am registered as a republican but don’t always vote that way in the end – just because. We should stand behind Packy for what he stands for and I personally think what he did was a good strategy move. He tried to stay in one party last year and it ended up hurting him. Kevin White definitely needs to get out of that office and someone who is true to our community needs to get in there. Sam Archer seems like a nice guy as well as Jim Taylor but I would have to say that you are only hearing these names now because they have filed to run for office but everyone who has lived in this area knows Packy either personally or by connection from someone else or what he does for this area. I say “GOOD LUCK PACKY” and you definitely have my vote.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:58:06 +0000

I am not here to get into a debate or say ill comments. I think people lose sight and start getting way of the topic.

The only point I would like to make is Packy is a wonderful man who would give the shirt off his back for anyone in need in our community. He has volunteered a lot of his personal time for the kids in our area as well. Alot of people could learn to be more like Packy on a moral basis and just be a good genuine person.

At the end of the day, he can look himself in the mirror and know he did what was best for the people/kids in our community. Can the rest of us?

Packy, win lose or draw it does not matter. The ones of us that have known you our entire life know what kind of man you are and will be there with you until the end. Thank you !

If we do not have anything nice to say then just don’t say anything at all.

By: All was quiet...

All was quiet... — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:26:49 +0000

@ Matt… All was quiet and kosher until you got on here being a ” political hack ” yourself. Mr. Mitchell played sneaky politician and turned on his own party, which will surely bite him in the end!!! Yea Packy has been in the community claiming to be a Republican through and through, but we all turn around and go ” Where’s Packy ?!?…..” Oh yea thats right…. He jumped ship at the beginning!!! That’s exactly what we don’t need!!!!! Turning on the majority of his supporters and friends wont get Packy nowhere but sitting there wondering…. What did I do?!?
All was quiet… For “political hacks” needing to proofread their work before turning it in!!

By: MATT

MATT — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:54:57 +0000

AT LAST SOMEONE THAT CARES ABOUT PEOPLE!
CARES ENOUGH TO RUN FOR THE OFFICE.
SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT IF 5 OR MORE RUN IN A CLOSED PRIMARY YOU ARE SURE TO REELECT WHAT YOU HAVE.
PACKY MAY NOT HAVE SAMS MONEY
HE MAY NOT HAVE A PHD
HE HAS NOT BEEN IN OFFICE FOR 8 NON PRODUCTIVE YEARS

BUT HE HAS BEEN IN THE COMMUINTY HELPING THOSE IN NEED
SOME THING WE ALL COULD DO A LITTLE MORE OF.

CONPARE WHAT PACKYS HAS GIVEN OF HIMSELF TO THE CITZENS OF DIST FIVE AS WELL AS ESCAMBIA COUNTY TO THE OTHERS THAT ARE IN THIS RACE YOU WILL BE SCHOCKED,

ITS EASY TO LOOK GOOD FOR ONE YEAR CHECK THE PAST 10 YEARS AND YOU WILL NOT SEE SAM KEVIN HELPING ANYONE OTHER THAN THEMSELFS.

GOOD LUCK PACKY DONT GET DISCOURGED BY THE POLITICAL HACKS.

By: 429SCJ

429SCJ — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:23:31 +0000

If I wanted to be county commissioner I would join a local church and court the patronage of local voters. Once I was elected, I would move to a larger church, so I could run with the big boys. I would then divorce my wife, and look for one I felt matched my developing lifestyle. I guess thats how its done?

By: Interested

Interested — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:48:33 +0000

No william sorry to confuse, I was not talking about here in Escambia County for the National Election. I was talking about the fact that in the Nation
Obama got 365 electorial votes, while Mc Cain got 175 and none of us saw
that coming. My point was nobody thought he would win either.
Here in the north end we don’t all hang out at Fran’s, or the Bait
shop and we don’t all work at the paper mill, so anything could happen and no
one knows for sure who we all will vote for.

By: Dennis HE Wiggins

Dennis HE Wiggins — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:21:54 +0000

Re: Shaun M ~ I had the honor of meeting Sam, Packy , and Jim at the Cottage Hill Back to School Bash. (Kevin never showed up as far as I know.) All of them are true gentlemen, but I still ask, “What will they do for US?” The way government SHOULD be run will be revealed in November when I launch my website. Representative government is what we need – not Party Politics!

By: William

William — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 14:31:25 +0000

Interested wrote: “There are
a lot of people up here in the north end. It can change anytime, just like 70 percent of the American People voted for Obama, ”

If you are saying that 70 percent of the people in North Escambia voted for Obama, that’s not right.

Only 25 percent of the vote in North Escambia was for Obama. The *only* precinct he carried was Century, and that was with 62 percent of the vote. McCain received 75 percent of the North Escambia vote.

Nationally, that’s not right either. Obama won with 53.7 percent of the nationwide vote.

By: Interested

Interested — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:38:09 +0000

I guess many of you think you know what everyone else is going to do, and
you forget just how many of us don’t hang out where you do. There are
a lot of people up here in the north end. It can change anytime, just like 70 percent of the American People voted for Obama, bet you didn’t see that coming either. People were tired of GW now their tired of K.W.