{"id":60321,"date":"2026-09-30T05:05:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T05:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=60321"},"modified":"2026-09-30T05:05:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T05:05:51","slug":"not-a-partisan-office-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=60321","title":{"rendered":"Not a partisan office, man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n\r\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">Ken Seligman is running for a spot on the Princeton City Council and he&#8217;s posted lawn signs around the city telling us of his desire.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They include his desire to bring a good <em>Republican<\/em> to the council.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that, dear friends, stopped me in my tracks when I saw it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seligman is not seeking a partisan political job. Which makes me wonder what the hell is this guy thinking? Service on a local council, or school board, or college board of regents is devoid of partisan consideration.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am reminded of a woman who once challenged then Amarillo Mayor Kel Seliger. Mary Alice Brittain called on &#8220;good Republicans&#8221; to vote against Seliger. I was editor of the opinion pages of the Amarillo Globe-News and I reminded Brittain of her error in conflating her race with that of county commissioner or state legislator. She lost to Seliger.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seligman has long been involved in Princeton city government. I applaud his desire to seek improvements in the way City Hall does its business. But dammit, a candidate&#8217;s party affiliation has nothing to do with providing police protection, setting municipal taxes or fixing potholes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Seligman is running for a spot on the Princeton City Council and he&#8217;s posted lawn signs around the city telling us of his desire. They include his desire to bring a good Republican to the council. And that, dear friends, stopped me in my tracks when I saw it. Seligman is not seeking a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=60321\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not a partisan office, man<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[1941,2646,8983],"class_list":["post-60321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-political-news","tag-gop","tag-kel-seliger","tag-princeton-city-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60323,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60321\/revisions\/60323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}