News Stories and Recordings of Forums Available
A variety of information about the candidates for the Board of Commissioners, the Board of Education and coroner is available to Oconee County voters who will be making crucial decisions about the future of the county on July 15.
All the local action is in the Republic primary on July 15, and any voter can ask to participate, since registration is not by party in Georgia.
All the Republican contests except the coroner race will be decided at the July 15 primary, since only two candidates are running for each of the other open positions. If none of the three candidates for coroner gets a majority of votes, that race will go to a runoff on August 5.
Democrat Rich Clark, who is unopposed in the Democratic primary for Board of Education Post 5, will face either Tom Breedlove or Kyle Martin, Republican candidates for that post, in November. This will be the only contested election for a county office in November.
The free weekly newspaper, The Oconee Leader, has run a series of helpful stories on all the races, and these are available at the paper’s web site.
The Athens Banner-Herald has summary stories on the Board of Commissioners races, and there are available at:
County Commission Chairman (Bell and Davis)
County Commissioner Post 1 (Luke and Pritchett)
County Commissioner Post 2 (Daniell and Norris)
County Commissioner Post 3 (Hale and Porter)
County Commissioner Post 4 (Horton and Maxey)
Tim Byrant from WGAU interviewed all the candidates for the Board of Commissioners and for the Board of Education. These are archived and can be located and listened to or downloaded at the stations website.
The Candidates for Board of Commissioners and for the Board of Education participated in two candidate forums, one organized by a consortium of citizen groups and the other organized by the Chamber of Commerce. The coroner candidates were included in the Candidate Forum organized by the citizen groups.
Through the work of citizens, these are available for viewing at:
www.vimeo.com/OconeeBOC and www.vimeo.com/OconeeCounty .
Additional stories relevant to the elections have been posted on this blog on 7/1, 6/22 and 6/10.
Another source of information on the elections is Another Voice from Oconee County. A series of critical reports on Incumbent Chairman Davis reflects the perspective of former Chairman Wendell Dawson, who stepped down rather than run for reelection eight years ago.
ADDED on 7/9/08
The Athens Banner-Herald, in today's edition, contains brief reports on the Board of Education contests and the coroner race.
Coroner (Carson, Mayberry, Quillian-Carr)
Post 2 (Guest and House)
Post 3 (Argo and Hood)
Post 4 (Hunter and Toney)
Post 5 (Breedlove and Martin)
ADDED on 7/12/08
The Athens Banner-Herald ran two stories yesterday that offer very concise summaries of the various races. If you were going to read only two things, these might be the best.
BOC and Coroner
BOE
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