Hall and Haverkos, who both are small business owners in the county, are the only two that stepped forward to try to redirect the divided party that recently has been struggling financially and has been sued by Bridgewater Falls for breaking its lease.
The election is set for 6 p.m. Tuesday at Tori’s Station on Donald Drive in Fairfield.
Hall’s main two objectives to be the next executive chair would be to restore unity and fund-raising, he said.
“I have goals for the party and I believe that it takes someone right in the middle to achieve those goals,” said the 32-year-old Hall. “I don’t have a side. I can sit (two political rivals) in a room and openly communicate, and I’m unbiased. My only goal’s the party. I have no motive or agenda other than a successful, prominent Republican Party.”
And restoring unity within the party can help bring financial stability back to the party, Hall said.
“If you’re part of a group and the group is not seeing eye to eye and the newspaper has printed some pretty bad things, it kind of makes you want to hold on to that checkbook a little bit,” he said. “If I get both of those things, then I got everybody in sync.”
Hall wouldn’t comment on what had happened with the party in the past, saying, “The party is what the party is today. I’m going to deal with the future.”
Haverkos declined an interview request by the Journal-News, saying, “If I have anything to say, I want the membership to hear it directly from me and not read beforehand in the newspaper.”
Haverkos is not unfamiliar to politics in Butler County. Like Hall, he is a member of the party’s Central Committee.
Haverkos has also thrown his name in the political ring in the past, including bids for the Lakota School Board in 2005; the 3rd District representative on the State School Board of Education in 2010; the vacant GOP seat on the Butler County Board of Elections in 2013; and the GOP nomination and Republican Ohio House Caucus appointment for the then-vacant 55th District State Representative seat in 2011. Margy Conditt received the eventual nomination and appointment to the seat (which was redistricted as the 52nd District).
After the party adjourns this meeting, it will reconvene to endorse primary candidates for the 8th Ohio Congressional District, all statewide offices up for election and the 12th District Court of Appeals.
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