0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Facebook-messenger 0 Whatsapp 0 Email For most of its 200-year history, Marion was controlled by a fairly equal distribution of both Republican and Democratic mayors, council members, auditors, treasurers, and law directors. One party would take over for a while, and then the other would supplant it at the ballot … Continue reading The New World System: One Party Control, the Great Recession, and a Fiscal Nightmare for Marion