Sitting at a table, the local candidates laid out their positions
in Lake Park.
See also
LAKE videos of the previous candidate forum in Valdosta. Continue reading
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Videos: Valdosta Chamber Candidate Forum @ VLCoC 2014-10-07
Here are LAKE videos of
the candidates forum at the Rainwater Conference Center
organized by the Valdosta-Lowndes County Chamber of Commerce.
In the one remaining County Commission race, for District 3,
Tom Hochschild made opposition to the Sabal Trail pipeline
a platform plank,
while
Mark Wisenbaker mentioned his opposition to
the county’s lawsuit against local business Deep South Sanitation (DSS).
We know Hochschild is opposed to that lawsuit and Wisenbaker is
opposed to that pipeline, so we may get some change on the County Commission
in January.
Cary Scarborough of DSS was at this forum, as were many pipeline opponents.
Bikram Mohanty wins special mention for best use of the
VSU students Hochschild brought.
Meet the Candidates @ VLCoC 2014-10-07
Update 2014-10-21: Fixed year in title, and LAKE videos are posted.
Tuesday is the annual Chamber Meet the Candidates event. Usually there’s not much chance to ask them questions and see them answer in front of everybody, but at least you get to hear them speak.
Oddly the Chamber did not list which candidates will be there, but Valdosta CEO did:
U.S. Representative – District 1
E.L. Buddy Carter (R)
Brian Corwin Reese (D)State Senate – District 8
C. Ellis Black (R)
Bikram Mohanty (D)State House – District 174
John Corbett (R)
Jessie Smith (D)Lowndes County Commission – District 3
Tally Mark Wisenbaker, Jr. (R)
Tom Hochschild (D)
District 3 down to two candidates for Lowndes County Commission
The southern District 3 for Lowndes County Commission is down to
only two candidates, one Democrat and one Republican, so there will
be no primary races and Tom Hochschild (D) and Mark Wisenbaker (R)
will face each other in the general election in November.
Retiring candidate Don Thieme (D) throws his support behind Hochschild.
District 3 is mostly the south half of the county,
but it also wraps around Valdosta to incorporate Remerton and VSU.
See
detail map
or
PDF of district 1,2,3
as found on
lowndescounty.com.
And Crawford Powell has withdrawn from the race for House District 174, so that leaves only two candidates there, too: Jessie Smith (D) and John L. Corbett (R), with no primary races, to face each other in November.
Continue readingCrazy Qualifying Season Finally Completed
Update 31 March 2014: Withdrawals of Thomas Sims and Don Thieme from Lowndes County Commission District 3 and of Crawford Powell from House 174. See also school board election.
Additional entries in County Commission Districts 3 and 5,
plus a swap and a withdrawal,
continued the
musical chairs in local qualifying.
Plus three out of four County Commission seats up for election
will actually be decided in May, not November.
And one state House seat and the state Senate race are hotly contested.
The three County Commission seats that will be decided May 20th are: Continue reading
Musical chairs in local qualifying
Three out of five voting County Commissioners are not running again, and one has already vacated his seat, plus you have to have a playing card to keep track of who’s running for the state Senate and House.
We already knew
State Senator Tim Golden was not running again,
and now we know who’s running for that seat:
Richard Raines (R),
who had said
two months ago he was not running again for
County Commission District 2,
Ellis Black (R) currently House 174, Bikram Mohanty (D) who ran last time and came close,
and John Page (R), who thus vacated County Commission District 5.
Because Ellis Black is running for Senate, and even though he qualifed for his House District 174 seat Monday, when he qualified for Senate Wednesday, he left his House seat open. Running for District 174 are Crawford Powell (R), currently County Commissioner for District 3, Jessie Smith (D), and John L. Corbett (R).
The incumbents qualifed for the other House seats, each with no challenger.
As for the three (3) County Commission seats now open, here, read Gretchen’s explanation.
And remember, more changes can still happen, because qualifying has reopened for County Commission District 3, and will have to reopen for District 5.
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