Both candidates for the District 6 school board race retired after more than 30 years of working for the government in Hamilton County.
Both are 63 years old.
And they both say that, through the process of running against each other for a spot on the Hamilton County Board of Education, they’ve become friends.
“(Gary Patterson) is a good man,” said Mr. Patterson’s opponent, Joe Galloway. “I’m going to do everything I can to beat him, but if I don’t, I support him.”
But for all their similarities, the men say they have their own ideas of how the school board should be run.