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| | Medina County Gazette - on-line edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Unofficial election tallies from the Medina County Board of Elections show Dirham pulled in 3,732 votes, 65 percent, and Wayne Hamilton, whom Dirham unseated four years ago, 2,008 votes, or 35 percent. |
 | | Dirham, 30, said the vote was an affirmation of "voters' confidence in me and my staff at the finance department," He praised Andy Waite, his campaign treasurer, "and my family who acted as my campaign managers this fall." |
 | | Dirham pointed to political animosity between Hamilton and his boss, then Mayor James Roberts, that he asserted resulted in a lack of planning that left the city facing financial disaster. |
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