Paul McKibben reports:
The Warren County Republican Party has its third chairman in two years.
Mason Mayor David Nichols has been serving in the post since April, replacing Lebanon City Councilman Jeff Monroe, who became chairman of the party’s central committee. The GOP dominates Warren County politics.
The party elected Monroe last September to replace county Prosecutor David Fornshell as chairman. Fornshell became party chair in June 2010 and prosecutor in February 2011. The party elected Fornshell prosecutor to replace Rachel Hutzel who won a seat on the Ohio 12th District Court of Appeals.
Nichols and Monroe were elected to their new party posts April 10 following the March primary when central committee members were elected. County Commissioner Pat South said Monroe preferred to return to being chairman of the central committee.
South said it’s not been detrimental to have three chairmen in about two years.
“All of the people who have been our chairmen were actively involved in the party,” she said. “So it wasn’t like there was a stranger coming … to lead the group.”
