Election 2012: Lydia Long — A tireless volunteer, lifelong learner
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Lydia Long, candidate for justice of the peace, spoke at a meeting of the Buffalo Gap Republican Women last month.
Photo by Nellie Doneva
Nellie Doneva/Reporter-News
Lydia Long, candidate for justice of the peace, spoke last month at a meeting of the Buffalo Gap Republican Women.
Some people throw out their lawn chairs and chat with the tenants of the neighboring motor home when they go camping, but that’s not for Lydia Long.
She and her husband, Bob Bailey, pack up their gear and head out into the wild.
“Our idea is to go as far back as we can go and not see people,” Long said.
That’s precisely the opposite of what Long does when she’s at home in Abilene.
When she’s not teaching criminal justice courses as an adjunct professor, Long is a relentless community activist who has thrown herself into building a dog park, battling code violations as president of her neighborhood association, serving on several boards and commissions and volunteering for the International Rescue Committee.
Long hopes to add another role to her resume. She’s running for the Taylor County justice of the peace, Precinct 1, Place 1, and she’ll face John Cummins and Mike McAuliffe in the Republican primary on May 29.
Long says she has a Type A personality that keeps her moving.
She talks fast — even faster when she drinks coffee — and she doesn’t mince words.
“I’m very straightforward, and what you see is what you get,” Long said.
This hasn’t been the easiest path for Long, said Arlene Shivers, who has known Long for six years and is vice president of Old Town Abilene Neighborhood Association.
She remembers the moment they met. Shivers’ husband
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on May 5 2012. Filed under 2012 Presidential Campaign.
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