NO INCUMBENT DANVILLE TOWN COUNCIL MEMBER HAS EVER LOST RE-ELECTION. THERE IS NO UPPER LIMIT TO HOW MUCH MONEY CAN BE SPENT ON A CANDIDATE'S CAMPAIGN

By Ralph Hoffmann

A small group of individuals have mainained control of Danville Town government, using political principles first explained by Machiavelli in his book "The Prince", published in 1532 That group will stop at nothing to maintain the stranglehold it has held on Danville politics over the past 20 years.

EVEN THOUGH THERE IS NO UPPER LIMIT ON HOW MUCH MONEY CAN BE SPENT ON A CANDIDATE'S CAMPAIGN, I AM CERTAIN THE VOTERS OF DANVILLE ARE INTELLIGENT ENOUGH THAT THEIR VOTE CANNOT BE BOUGHT, NO MATTER HOW MANY POLITICAL SIGNS MAR OUR BEAUTIFUL TOWN.

The small group in control is getting older, and hasn't let many new members into its inner circle. The Danville of today is not the Danville of 20 years ago. Empty nesters have moved out, to be replaced by young families from all over the Country and the World, bringing with them fresh ideas from other areas. The power has shifted in many Homeowners Associations to these young families, who now can control Boards of Directors to raise Assessments as permitted by the Davis-Sterling Act to provide youth oriented activities on common areas. This will provide a new source of money to replace Town controlled sports fields, maintained by our strapped-for-revenues Town Government.

In my Candidate Statement that has gone out with the sample ballot, I have pledged to donate my entire Town Council salary to worthy causes in Danville. I have also pledged to serve no more than 2 terms on the Danville Town Council. I have always taken my meds. I hope my opponents do too!