June 30 the application was due to be the next Clerk of the Dayton City Commission.
September 9, the Mayor wrote me a letter thanking me for applying for the position- but, I’m not a finalist. That means there are finalists? Anyone have the scoop?
Here is the link to my cover letter and the post where I let you know I was applying:
Who will be the next Clerk of the Dayton City Commission? | Esrati.
No one expected me to make the cut. The real question is if our “Full Time” Mayor, has any plans to let the next clerk do his/her job. Like make sure that the petition form to run for her job is posted online as a PDF- along with the instructions.

News Flash … no one cares, David.
Yet you cared enough to comment, Mike. Kind of a self-defeating insult, dontcha think?
Newsflash: nobody really cares what Mike the anonymous guy thinks. He is what they call in the ‘hood, a hater.
Dave Esrati is a hero.
Hero? Really? Come on now. The man can hardly find a date. He never gets elected. He B&M about a lot of stupid stuff, he contradicts himself a lot, he defends one while criticizes the other for the same faults. He is a normal guy. Not a hero. and he is not qualified for that job.
OK, so David was never elected, but can hardly find a date?
I heard David’s girlfriend is HOT (in both ways) and she had to beat down about 8 women to get to him…
But it could all be rumors- maybe he is mayor and just keeping it a spectacular secret.
Gene, your spy network let you down this time.
David’s girlfriend has been to my house and she’s lovely.
And still, Gene … you keep coming back, reading and posting. So he’s doing SOMETHING right.
Gene just has a man-crush on Esrati…hot girlfriend notwithstanding. ;-)
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Gene, I certainly don’t agree with David on everything. But I think that he’s a hero because he’s got the gonads to keep on speaking out when the small minded haters make fun and criticize. And he’s a good American in the oldest of American traditions: being a skeptic and critic of leadership – especially the corrupt selfish kind.
If there were a LOT more David Esrati’s we wouldn’t be in the shape we are in this country. And Dayton would probably be a lot nicer place to live with a much informed populace.