Hamilton County Courthouse

For those of you tuning in from distant lands (i.e. outside the I-275 beltway) the local electorate stunned the entrenched Republican Party which has ruled our county commission for forty-odd years by electing David Pepper to one of the three seats, thereby shifting the majority to the Dem- Dem- Dem- Democrats (shudder!) No doubt a lot of Geritol-and-Jack Daniels cocktails were going down on Tuesday night.