County election certified, city candidates
filing deadline ends today
By Thomas Wilson
STAR STAFF
twilson@starhq.com
County citizens spoke two weeks ago.
Elizabethton citizens will speak just under two
months from now when they elect four members to the Elizabethton
City Council in the November city election.
Election results from the Aug. 1 county election
were made official through certification by the Carter County
Election Commission on Monday.
Deputy Administrator Laura Holtsclaw said certification
did not change any pre-certification results in the county
general election or state primary results.
Incumbent city council members Janie McKinney,
Diane Morris and Sam Shipley filed candidacy papers with the
Carter County Election Commission on Monday.
Fellow incumbent councilman Pat "Red" Bowers,
newcomers John W. Hughes, Robert A. Smalling and William "Don"
Pectol, and former city finance director Sidney Cox have all
picked up candidacy papers but had not submitted them to the
commission as of Wednesday.
The candidacy filing deadline is today at noon.
City residents have until Oct. 4 to register for the November
election.
The county results remained unchanged from totals
released on Aug. 2.
Dale Fair won the county executive seat, incumbent
Johnny Holder won the Register of Deeds race and incumbent
Sheriff John Henson won his third term in office.
Jerome Cochran won the Republican nomination
for the Fourth District House seat representing Carter County
in the state primary. He will run unopposed in November.
New county commissioners-elect include: Doug
Buckles, Jack Buckles and Lawrence Hodge of the 1st District;
Amos Stevens and Al Meehan of the 2nd District; Jim Whaley
of the 3rd District; Tom "Yogi" Bowers of the 4th District;
John G. Lewis and John D. Snyder of the 6th District; Richard
Tester of the 7th District; and Robert L. Davis of the 8th
District.
County Trustee Randal Lewis, County Clerk Mary
Gouge and Highway Superintendent Jack Perkins, who ran unopposed
in the election, were announced as official winners each receiving
more than 10,000 complimentary votes.
The commission sends a copy of the certified
election results to the state coordinator of elections, the
governor's office, and the state Republican Party and Democratic
Party in Nashville.
