Category: The Road To Mayor

Sunday, June 14 2015 We had a really great weekend in Hocking Hills. It’s a very cool and fun place. I love checking at all the interesting places in the world. Our friend who has worked on some campaigns in the past drove home with us back to Akron.  She started going through all the…

   It’s Saturday. I often use the weekends to think. I avoid the phone and email as much as possible so I can take some time to think.  Every small business owner knows this fact: As a small business owner you are the General, the front line soldier and the cook. You have to be…

I was so excited about day 4 (Friday, June 12 2015) that I couldn’t sleep. Indy and I had just went to check out Jurassic World at the HIghland Theater the night before. It was so good I couldn’t stop thinking about it. But at 9am on day 4 I was to have my first…

It is now 11pm on day 3. I wrote day 1 and 2 just now because Greg gave me this idea today. Day 1 and 2 were so interesting. I wanted to make sure I had them recorded. This site is running on WordPress. It’s easy to find a new theme and install it for…

Greg and I thought there would be nothing to this part.. I mean, how hard could it be to get 50 signatures? We were wrong. People refused to sign. People didn’t live in Akron. Endless people who don’t vote and will never vote. There were countless hurdles. I was laughed at. I was told there…

Greg Habermann, my campaign manager, had a brilliant idea.. as he often does. He thought it would be cool to blog my journey of becoming Mayor of Akron. He also thought that other people in our town might find this journey interesting. That future people whom might want to run for office might find this…