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A former Army MP with a unique history declares for the retiring Rep. Phillip Pinion’s 77th state House seat:

State Rep. Phillip Pinion (Father of the toll road tax) has decided to call it quits. Word is he was not having fun any more. I had spoken with him last year and he said he was probably not going to run again. I was sort of surprised when he picked up his petition and turned it in. Two Democrats had already filed in the primary before he dropped out so he was facing a race.

Powerful Democrat Transportation Chairman Philip Pinion has suddenly announced he will not be seeking re-election despite earlier filing papers to do so.

Want a good issue to defeat an incumbent legislator? Here it is:

The chairman of Transportation (Phillip Pinion) and Frank Nicley who sits on the conservation committee got into a little back and forth on spending money putting up watershed signs all over the place. Frank said he saw little to no use in spending hundreds of thousands of dollars putting up signs letting people know what watershed district they were in.

From Michael Silence:

House Transportation Chairman Phillip Pinion, a Union City Democrat, said Friday there is interest from several local governments around the state in getting toll bridge projects approved while current law allows only a single pilot project.