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2009-04-01 |
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| Name | Gerry Turner |
| Address | 1201 S. Pine Street
York, Pennsylvania 17403, United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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February 00, 1943
(81 years)
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Modifed | Scott³
Jun 18, 2009 03:48am |
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| Info | Turner grew up in Dallas and went to work after two years of college and two more in a management training program. He became a salesman, a manager, a consultant and an entrepreneur in turn, working in a variety of industries.
He met his wife in York while consulting for Dentsply in 1979 and moved to the city in 1984, buying the South Pine Street home where he lives now. But Turner had little involvement in the community because his work often took him out of town.
When then-Mayor Charlie Robertson put together a budget with a 40 percent tax increase in 2001, Turner said he probably would not even have noticed had he not given up traveling earlier that year and bought a local leatherwork business.
That, Turner says, was the beginning of his political career. He became a regular at city council meetings. At one point, he became involved with the political group New Directions for the City of York, which also backed city council Vice President Vickie Washington when she ran for office in 2003.
He thought of running for city council, Turner said, but decided he did not want to be just one vote in five. By fall of last year, he had given up work to campaign for mayor full time -- necessary, he said, for a virtually unknown Republican to become a viable candidate in a city where fewer than a third of registered voters are Republican.
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