He had known Boehner for three decades - had considered him a friend, had attended his golf tournaments.
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There is a framed certificate from 1981 declaring Phillips a member of the “Senate Business Advisory Board” in “recognition of his commitment to preserve and strengthen the American free enterprise system.” For the past few years, Phillips even let the Montgomery County Republican Party use a room at the Mandalay for its headquarters. Bush on the walls, a Bush commemorative golf putter leaning against the shelves, and a copy of Karl Rove’s latest book on his desk. His upstairs office, where elevator music is piped in on the Mandalay’s audio system, has pictures of himself with George H.W.
He has voted Republican in every presidential election since 1964. Thirty-two years ago, he built the Mandalay, the giant windowless catering hall on I-75, between the industrial park and the for-profit college. He is a successful businessman who started out delivering food to the cafeterias and vending machines at the factories and tool-and-die shops that used to be all over Dayton. Phillips was once the picture of a Midwestern establishment Republican. The letter was, quite literally, a “Dear John” break-up declaration. Congress needs to get in gear and do something to solve some of these problems. Everyone is sick of electing politicians that do nothing and continue to go on vacations and work three days a week when the Country is in trouble. What has Congress done to solve any of these problems that affect all Americans? … What’s going on with the Republicans? No wonder people are so interested in TRUMP. 2, Don Phillips sat down at his desk at the Mandalay banquet hall along the interstate just south of Dayton, Ohio, and composed an angry letter to the congressman from the adjoining district, the highest-ranking elected Republican in the country, then-House Speaker John Boehner.