Wilcher announces bid to become 4th District County Commissioner
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The Republican says people in his district have been impressed by his eagerness to be elected.
?Everybody I?ve met has been real impressed with the fact I?m going door to door,? said Wilcher. ?I guess people don?t do that much anymore but it?s something I felt strongly about doing.?
Wilcher is running with one clear-cut objective: to reduce the size of the county commission from 24 members to 12.
?I want to make our local government smaller,? said Wilcher. ?We?re too small a town to have more commissioners than these larger cities. It?s a waste of tax dollars.
?Plus, if you noticed, a couple years ago commissioners voted to go from 12 meetings a year to six meetings without reducing their pay. That?s a 100 percent pay raise. I know if I received a raise like that, I?d be extremely happy.?
Wilcher, who is in management at Nissan, says he knows all too well the need to bring more jobs to Warren County. He says he travels 104 miles a day to work in Decherd and has been doing that for 12 years. Before that, he worked at the Nissan plant in Smyrna.
?I can?t promise anything but I will do what I can to bring more work here,? said Wilcher, who says we need more common sense when it comes to local government decisions.
Wilcher is an active member of Day Spring Community Church. He and his wife, Lorie, are the parents of three girls ? Lindsay, Kelsey and Zoe. They have been married since 1992.
He is the son of G.L. Wilcher, a mechanic, and Margaret Wilcher, a bus driver.