 more politics in bath township  it seems superintendent schneider can t separate politics from business when dealing with the best interest of the township s residents superintendent schneider the elected leader of the bath township board has managed to make another decision that appears to be politically driven the township board voted on the committee appointments at their last meeting and failed to reappoint a longstanding member of the parks recreation committee tonya sullivan tonya had served on that committee for several years she had faithfully attended meetings and had always gone above and beyond what was expected of her to do whatever she could for the township several of the new people on the committee have never been to any of the parks recreation committee meetings and didn t even show up to be introduced to the board and the community it was suggested by schneider that the committee needed more diversity and that s why her reappointment was denied yet several of the existing committee members who were reappointed have been on the committee longer than tonya it would appear that diversity to mr schneider means someone whose political opinions are the same as his and the other board members as a resident of bath township i am very disheartened that there seems to be an ongoing attempt to eliminate anyone that isn t of a like mind with the current board regardless of their value to the community the loss of tonya and her service to the community is something we should all be saddened by but the actions of mr schneider in particular should give us pause in regard to the reliability of his decisions and what he bases them on and ultimately his fitness to be the highest elected official in our township submitted for publication by bruce harte to the lansing state journal dewitt bath review lainsgburg independent durand independent perry independent on february 2 2010 published in the dewitt bath review lainsgburg independent durand independent perry independent on february 14 2010  