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Leon West, widely revered by his party as the root of success of the Democratic Party in Porter County, died Wednesday in McKinney, Texas at 88. West was the Porter County Democratic Chairman from 1994 to 2007, but he had been nurturing his party’s pathway decades earlier.
Reynolds made the case for 5% raises for county police officers, noting that with fewer applying for the job, it’s even more important to be competitive with other police departments.