Meet the 87th candidates- Mark Doster

Mark Doster — Mark Doster has a reputation as being a bit of an electoral loser, having lost at the ballot box almost as often as John Loftus- Barry County's poster boy for futile campaigns. Back in the early 1990s, Doster ran as a Democrat against State Rep. Bob Bender and lost (strike one). He switched parties and ran for county commissioner and won. Two years later he was defeated in his bid for re-election. That's two. Then, in 2000 he returned to politics and ran for Prairieville Township Supervisor and won. Then he lost his bid for re-election to Tom Guthrie in 2004 (there is no smaller unit of government to lose at- maybe he should be trying for Township Board of Review on the Socialist Worker's Party). That's three strikes. Then managed to create a position for himself as manager of the Southwest Barry Sewer Authority for $25,000 a year. Now he's shooting for his fourth electoral loss in a little more than a dozen years. I wonder if anyone has mentioned to Doster that the Democrats have no candidate, that he could be virtually guaranteed a spot on the November ballot if he switched back to his original team.

I know Abraham Lincoln was said to have lost three elections before he became president. But Mark Doster is no Abraham Lincoln.