Summary
The 2009 election will be remembered for the high-profile mayoral upset by Gary Leitzell over Dayton's Rhine McLin. While those two candidates were going at each other in the city, a Kettering candidate was running against Dayton, inventing new slang that's offensive and divisive.
"Daytonization" is the brainchild of Ashley Webb, a Kettering City Council candidate who joined Mr. Leitzell in unseating an incumbent. Mr. Webb now says he regrets coining the term and says he has dropped it from his vocabulary, going so far as to scrub his campaign Web site to remove all references to it.See the full content of this document
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Kettering's Newcomer Right to Back Down
What is "Daytonization" shorthand for?
Here is how Mr. Webb explained himself in a videotaped interview with the Dayton Daily News from earlier in the campaign:"Firs...See the full content of this document
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