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Congratulations Dexter Sharper, Demarcus Marshall, Chris Prine, and Justin Cabral!



Congratulations to Valdosta’s new state rep for District 177
Dexter Sharper who won by 67% to 33% over opponent Glenn Gregory,
who fought a spirited and clean campaign.
I look forward to Representative Sharper

meeting with the governor
and working for our community without compromise under the gold dome in Atlanta.

I’ll come back to the other statehouse races in a separate post.
Ditto the other statewide races.
Meanwhile, congratulations to some local winners below.



Congratulations new Lowndes County Commissioner for District 4
Demarcus Marshall, winning 64.91% to 35.09%
after spirited debate and much agreement
with opponent John Gates.
I look forward to Commissioner Marshall

grappling with education, jobs, tourism, and personnel
down at the county palace.




Congratulations on re-election, Lowndes County Sheriff Chris Prine!
Challenger J.D. Yeager fought a good fight, but the voters said
63.53% to 36.47% they did not
want to go back to the previous administration.
I look forward to Sheriff Prine continuing to protect the safety of
all the citizens of Lowndes County, including those in the cities.



Congratulations Solicitor General Justin Cabral on retaining your post
51.56% to 48.44%!
Very honorable mention to challenger Jason Cain,
who canvassed himself pretty close to winning.

Congratulations Joyce Evans

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Lake Park City Council meeting and special election






Former Council Member Jeff Spradley in the audience

At their 3 May 2011 meeting, the

Lake Park City Council
acknowledged that one of their number had moved out of the
city limits and resigned, so they had to decide whether
to hold a special election or just wait until the November
regular election.
After long deliberation, which seemed to be decided by the
precedent of Dasher going ahead with a special election,

Lake Park decided this:






Mayor Walter K. Sandlin,
Council Member Ronald Carter,
Council Member Eric Schindler,
City Attorney Rob Plumb,
Mayor Pro-Tem Council Member Paul Mulkey

Due to the resignation of Council Member Spradley

a Special Election will be held

September 20, 2011 to fill the vacancy.

Qualifying period will open on June 1st and end

12 noon on June 3rd.

There is a qualifying fee of $54.00.

We have no wards. All positions are “at large”.

For more information please contact us at

229.559.7470

So if you live in Lake Park and you want to run, you need
to qualify by noon today.

Mayor Sandlin predicted there would be multiple qualifiers.
We’ll see how it goes.

Incidentally, the entire council is up for election in November,
including whoever wins the special election will have to run again in November
if they want to stay on the council.

In that and other business, it is quite interesting watching this city council
interact rather informally with citizens, yet taking some care

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VSU-TV Rebroadcasts of AAUW Forum

Dennis Marks notes that VSU-TV’s rebroadcasts of the
AAUW Forum of 15 Sep 2009
will include the two-minute statements of unopposed candidates who
showed up. Those are not in the LAKE videos of the event which are already on YouTube, but pretty much everything else is.
Maybe VSU-TV will also put their videos online.



According to email from Walter Rollenhagen:

The Lowndes Co. Political Forum, or as we label it, VOTE 2009, will air on
VSU-TV cable channel 20:

Sunday, Oct. 4th at Noon

Saturday, Oct. 10th at Noon and Midnight

Saturday, Oct. 17th at Noon and Midnight

Sunday, Oct. 18th at Noon

Saturday, Oct. 24th at Noon and Midnight

Sunday, Oct. 25th at Noon

Saturday, Oct. 31st at Noon and Midnight

Sunday, Nov. 1st at Noon

Lowndes County Political Forum, AAUW, 15 Sep 2009

By Kenny R. Bush and John S. Quarterman, with videos by Gretchen Quarterman.

On Sept 15, residents of Lowndes County gathered inside VSU’s Whitehead
Auditorium for a political forum concerning the upcoming 2009 General
Municipal Elections.
It was the competing Mayberrys, Hahira and Dasher,
in the shadow of the big city of
Valdosta with its council and school board.
The 100 or so people who watched learned about the candidates.
You can too, by watching the videos of each speaker

provided by LAKE on YouTube.
Perhaps VSU can also be encouraged to release online the videos it took, which are
probably of higher quality.

Update: VSU TV rebroadcast schedule for this forum.

Perhaps VSU can also be encouraged to release online the videos it took, which are
probably of higher quality.

The event was sponsored by the American Association of University Women
(AAUW) and moderated by Jim Peterson, chair of the Political Science
Department at VSU. Before the forum began, the audience was provided
note cards and encouraged to write questions for forum participants.
A three person committee then decided which four questions that would be asked
on stage for each set of candidates.

Valdosta City Council District 2

The forum began with the five candidates competing to be the newest councilman of Valdosta’s 2nd district.
Willie T. Head, the incumbent, is not running,
but five other people other are:
David G. DeMersseman, David L. Dempsey, Rodney R. Flucas, Deidra A. White, and Dr. L. W. Williams.




(All the other LAKE videos of this AAUW forum are also available online.)

The first question of the night concerned annexing land neighboring
Valdosta and if candidates believed it to be a good idea or not.

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