Jul 5, 2015 2 min read

I didn’t vote for Washington County Commissioner Diana Irey Vaughan in 2011, and won’t this year, either. This comes from the heart of a member of the state Republican committee and someone who serves selflessly on Canonsburg Borough Council, committed to serving one, four-year term, might I add.

Irey Vaughan has become a career politician who does nothing but run for office. Over the course of those 20 years, she hasn’t proven to be a fiscal conservative, either. She voted for the bailout of a billion-dollar company with our tax dollars (84 Lumber), and she voted for her own pay raise in 2006. Don’t forget, after promising with two other ineffective commissioners to start the long overdue property reassessments, it took a judge’s ruling to kickstart the process. That’s what happens when you’re in office too long – your principles erode, you eventually forget why you ran in the first place, and you become a part of the problem. It’s no wonder she and fellow commissioner Larry Maggi, another serve-too-long offender, get along so well.

Twenty years in any office is too long for any politician, judge, or public official. Term limits – whether self-imposed or enacted by law – are a purely patriotic concept.

Tim Bilsky

Canonsburg