Tiffin Mayor To Support Santorum

Tiffin Mayor To Support Santorum

Just back from the four presidential candidate multi-county Republican fundraiser in Tiffin. That city's mayor, Royce Phillips said this evening he will be supporting Rick Santorum.

Phillips did not mention his candidate preference during his early-evening welcoming remarks, but told me of his decision soon after the night's last candidate, Tim Pawlenty, took to the stage. "I think I made my mind up tonight," he said. Also on hand: Thaddeus McCotter and Newt Gingrich. Full story soon.

Tiffin is one of the fastest growing cities in the state, doubling in population to 2,000 last decade. While his post is elected on a nonpartisan basis, Phillips is one of the few registered Republicans in elected office in heavily Democratic Johnson County. (But as I always note: we're in the top ten in the state in sheer NUMBER of Republicans, and in GOP caucus politics a vote is a vote with none of the apportioning or viability math we Democrats do.)

Phillips was one of the leading local Mike Huckabee supporters in 2007.