Wally Irish

With less than 72 hours remaining in the effort to elect new leadership in Manchester, the Republican candidates for the Board of Directors and the Board of Education are out in the community, knocking on doors, making phone calls, and asking for your votes - rain or no rain.

 The Journal-Inquirer’s Kim Phillips wrote something of a ‘wrap-up’ piece that is out today, talking about the quality of the campaign run by the Republican Directors and the need for positive, new leadership in Manchester.  The highlights:

“People are not satisfied with the way things are going,” Republican candidate Jeffrey A. Beckman said recently. “There’s a lot that needs to be pulled up - that’s echoed when I go door to door.”

“Republican Town Chairman Wallace Irish Jr. estimated that collectively his director and school board candidates have knocked on between 18,000 and 20,000 doors, and that was with 10 days of campaigning to go.”

“That spirit of bipartisanship is something Republican candidate Robert Desilet said is missing from the board.

Republican incumbent Cheri Ann Pelletier said Democrats haven’t practiced bipartisanship during the last term, instead polarizing the board with divisive issues such as the living-wage ordinance.

The best quote of the piece, however, has to go to Republican Town Committee Chairman Wally Irish, for his comment on the budget: “Budgeting has just gone out of control,” Irish said. “We can’t have a Cadillac budget when everybody drives Chevrolets.”

Kim Phillips of the Journal-Inquirer wrote a piece yesterday about the Republican candidates’ new television advertisements.  Straight to the highlights:

“We wanted to get as many people in town seeing our candidates and their message,” Republican Town Chairman Wallace Irish Jr. said Wednesday. “Many more people go to” cable television for news and information. ” We wanted to be part of that.”

“We’re very proud of it,” Irish said. “This is our main core of advertising. This is where we decided to spend our money.”

You can view the commercials by clicking here.

MANCHESTER - The Republican candidates for the Manchester Board of Directors, as well as Board of Education candidate Mary Jane Pazda, began their television advertising campaigns today as they pursue seats in local government.

Director Lou Spadaccini commented on the commercials, noting, “This is the first time to my knowledge that any local campaign has done this.  We are committed to our Covenant with Manchester Taxpayers and spreading this message across the town of Manchester.  These ads are a big step in the right direction.”

The stepped up advertising comes in the wake of this weekend’s placement of 4×8 signs advertising the Republican candidates for both Boards in 15 locations throughout Manchester.

“This isn’t your grandfather’s Republican Party,” said Republican Town Committee Chairman Wally Irish. 

 ”We are working hard to win votes in Manchester - knocking on doors, phone calls, mail, lawn signs, and now the television ads,” said candidate Mark Tweedie.  “We are running to win.”

You can view the television advertisements by clicking on Video at the top of the page, or simply click here.