OLNEY—Disappointing news coming out of the city of Olney: incumbent mayor Mark Lambird has been beaten by the second-worse challenger to the office other than Brian James O’Neill.
In a stunning upset tonight, attorney Ray Vaughn, who is a shill for former mayor Tommie Fehrenbacher (who Lambird beat in 2009), prevailed with about 55 percent of the vote, proving that Fehrenbacher can exert his influence for ‘his’ candidates and put the town once again in the hands of the man who uses his political position to enrich himself.
Vaughn has recently been attending meetings with Morgan Fehrenbacher, the nasty female-child of Tommie whose exploits in disrobing in public places have become a thing of legend in the past ten years or so.
Mayor-elect Ray Vaughn, at far left, with the bottle blonde Morgan Fehrenbacher, his constant companion at Olney city council meetings, glaring at the camera.
The ten or so votes that Brian James O’Neill II, smelly town reject, was able to secure tonight wouldn’t have helped Lambird, so no blame can be thrown on him. Instead it can be placed on those who somehow believe that charging the county a million dollars for a parking lot or being investigated for graft in the securing of a state office on property he owns (both of which Fehrenbacher did during his time in office) is “advancing the city,” Now, with Vaughn in place as mayor, Fehrenbacher can pull strings without having his face—which so many despised—attached to it. Apparently not enough of those people understood the connection between the two. They’ve now got four years to figure it out.
O’Neill was a no-show tonight at the courthouse. After a ridiculous 25-page response to the Olney Daily Mail’s mayoral questionnaire, he might have somehow gotten the idea through his thick head that his name on the ballot is a source of ridicule, not fame, and he was out of the picture with his ten or so votes garnered by some jokers within the city every two years that he runs for office in some capacity.
The public safety tax that was promoted so heavily by road district people failed; voters sent a message to the county to manage their money more responsibly and stop relying on sales tax after sales tax to prop up the coffers. Now we’ll see if our property taxes in Richland are raised, as is always the threat when the PSTs are brought to the ballot.