No one can claim the local GOP is not politically savvy.  Last Wednesday, Chris Monzel was selected over the first runner up, Leslie Ghiz, to replace Pat Dewine on city council.  Although Monzel, was an incumbent runner in the last election, and he lost, gaining fewer votes than Ghiz or Damon Lynch, the local GOP stated that they felt that white males were severely under represented in the Republican party.

Westwood residents had expressed concerns that Leslie had passed the age of 30 and was not yet married and raising children.

J. Wayne Cropp, Hamilton County GOP chairman, stated that there is still a place for Ghiz in the Republican party.  “I hope she finds a nice Republican man to settle down with,” said Cropp, “There is no telling where her husband could go politically from there.”

Despite her loss, Ghiz did not walk away from this empty handed.  Sam Malone personally gave her a Betty Crocker cook book.