One Week Left for Cumberland County Commission and BOE Candidates to Qualify for August Election

With just one week remaining for candidates to turn in qualifying petitions to get their names on the ballots, many of the candidate hopefuls for the Cumberland County Commission and odd number districts on the Board of Education (BOE) have qualified for the races. The remaining candidates have until noon on April 5 to meet the deadline.

In the August 2nd Cumberland County election all members eighteen seats on the Cumberland County Commission and the odd number districts of the Board of Education are up for election.

Two commissioners from each district and one BOE member from the odd number districts 1,3,5,7 and 9 will be elected in the August balloting. Candidates who have qualified are marked.

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Federal and State race primaries will also be held on August 2 as well. July 3 is the final day to register and be eligible to vote in the August elections.

Early voting for the August 2 election and Primaries will be July 13 through July 28, 2018

Any new additions to the list since our last update are marked with an asterisk.

Candidates for First District Commissioner

Christopher D. Coleman (qualified)

R. J. Crawford (qualified)

Chad Norris (qualified)

Sue Ann York (incumbent) (qualified)

Second District Co. Commissioner

Kyle Davis * (qualified)

Nancy Hyder (incumbent) (qualified)

Tom Isham (incumbent)

Third District Co. Commissioner

Mitchell L Jenkins (qualified)

John Peaslee (qualified)

Rebecca H.Stone (incumbent) (qualified)

Darrell G. Threet *

Fourth District Co. Commissioner

Gary L. Adams (qualified)

Andy Cole

Joe Dunn (qualified)

Jane Franklin (qualified) (qualified)

David H. Gibson (incumbent) (qualified)

Charles Seiber (qualified)

Fifth District Co. Commissioner

Greg Blaylock *

Jack Davis (incumbent) (qualified)

Terry Lowe (incumbent) (qualified)

Toshia Phillips Powers

Tony Soriano

Machelle S. Tenbroeck

Sixth District Co. Commissioner

Kathy D. Allen

Larry B. Allen

Clifford H. Segar *

Wendell W. Wilson (Incumbent) (qualified)

Seventh District Co. Commissioner

Mark Baldwin (Qualified)

Jerry Cooper * (qualified)

Elbert Farley (incumbent) (qualified)

Michael J. Hamby (qualified)

Mike Harvel

Roy Turner (incumbent) (qualified)

Eighth District Co. Commissioner

Jim Blalock (qualified)

Deborah Holbrook (qualified)

Jesse Iles

Chris Singer

Darrell Wyatt (qualified)

Ninth District Co. Commissioner

Carl MacLeod (qualified)

John L. Patterson Jr. (incumbent) (qualified)

BOE First District

Jim Inman (qualified)

BOE Third District

Shirley French Parris (incumbent) (qualified)

Jay Wright (qualified)

BOE Fifth District

Tony Brock (qualified)

Don Hassler (Incumbent)

BOE Seventh District

James Davis (qualified)

Tom Delk

Rebecca Hamby (qualified)

BOE Ninth District

Stace Karge

Aretie G. Patterson (incumbent) (qualified)

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New Candidates for County Races plus County Commission and BOE Races Starting to take Shape.

Some new candidates have taken out papers to run for Cumberland County Mayor including one new Republican and an independent.

So far there are three candidates who have qualified for the May County Primary election including Timothy A. Claflin, Allen Foster and J.C. Hancock.

Other candidates have taken out papers and have until February 15 at noon to return them. In addition to previous candidates, one new potential candidate took out papers this week to run, Randall Kidwell. Kidwell is an environmental consultant and son of Tom Kidwell who served as Crossville City Manager, a County Commissioner and served on the board of the Catoosa Water Utility District. Other potential candidates previously reported include Doug Scarlett and Ligue Wisdom.

An Independent candidate for County Mayor has taken out papers, Sandra Lee (Sandy) Davis. If she qualifies she will be on the August Ballot as an independent but does not have to run on the May Primary.

Two candidates have qualified for the Republican Primary for Circuit Court Clerk, Jessica R. Burgess and Nick Neal had qualified as of January 25th.

Incumbent Judy Graham Swallows has qualified for the Register of Deeds on the Democratic primary.

Incumbent Sheriff Casey Cox has qualified for the Republican primary, Incumbent Kim Tollett Wyatt has qualified for Trustee on the Republican Primary and incumbent Jule Bryson has qualified for County Clerk on the Republican Primary.

There are now three Republican candidates for the office of County Road Superintending including incumbent Scott Blaylock, Stanley L. Hall and Kevin D. Music.

Candidates for the August County Election for County Commission and Board of Education (BOE) have also started to come in. Two commissioners from each district and one BOE member will be elected. Most of these have taken out papers but not yet returned them.

Candidates for First District Commissioner Include:

Christopher D. Coleman

R. J. Crawford

Chad Norris

Sue Ann York

Second District

Nancy Hyder

Third District None yet

Fourth District

Gary L. Adams

Joe Dunn

Mary Jane Franklin

David H. Gibson

Fifth District

Terry Lowe

Toshia Phillips Powers

Tony Soriano

Sixth District None yet

Seventh District

Wm. Mark Baldwin

Elbert Farley

Michael J. Hamby

Roy Turner

Eighth District

Jim Blalock

Deborah Brook

Chris Singer

Darrell Wyatt

Ninth District

John L. Patterson Jr.

BOE Third District

Shirley French Parris

Jay Wright

BOE Seventh District

Rebecca Hamby

BOE Ninth District

Aretie G. Patterson

Candidates seeking spots on the May 1, 2018 County Primary Elections

With the May 1, 2018, Cumberland County primary election starting to take shape, numerous candidates have taken out petitions to have their name on the ballot and have until February 15 at noon to return them to qualify.

Elections for 2018 include the County Primary May 1, the County General August 2 and the State General and Municipal elections on November 6.

The most active race appears it will be the race for County Mayor with incumbent Kenny Carey not planning to run for reelection. Candidates who have taken out petitions to appear on the Republican primary ballot include:

• Timothy A. Claflin
• Allen Foster
• James C. Hancock
• Robert D. Scarlett and
• Ligue Wisdom

Incumbent Co. Mayor Kenney Carey is 

not seeking re-election

Tim Claflin

Allen Foster

J. C. Hancock

Both Claflin and Foster are current County Commissioners, Foster previously served on the Board of Education. Hancock is a Crossville Police Detective and Wisdom and Scarlett both ran for County Mayor four years ago.

Another open race without an incumbent is the race for Circuit Court Clerk since Larry Sherrill has announced he is not running for reelection. To candidates for the Republican Primary have taken out papers so far and include:

• Jessica R. Burgess and
• Nicholas E. Neal.

Incumbent Court Clerk

Larry Sherrill

is not seeking re-election

Julius Bryson, incumbent County Clerk has taken out papers for the Republican primary.

Incumbent Co. Clerk

Jule Bryson

Judy G. Swallows, incumbent Register of Deeds has taken out and returned qualifying papers for the Democratic primary.

Incumbent Road Superintendent Scotty L. Blaylock and challenger Kevin D. Music have taken out papers to run for the Republican primary.  Both men ran against each other four years ago.  Blaylock is the incumbent road superintendent and Music is the street supervisor for the City of Crossville.

Incumbent Road Superintendent

Scott Blaylock

Challenger Kevin Music

Incumbent Casey Cox has taken out a petition to qualify for the Republican primary for Sheriff.

Incumbent Sheriff Casey Cox

Incumbent Kim Wyatt has taken out papers to qualify for the Republican primary as the Trustee.  

Incumbent Co. Trustee

Kim Wyatt

Eight candidates meet deadline for city council run. Neither incumbent seeking reelection.

The deadline has passed for candidates to turn in nominating petitions to get their name on the ballot for the November 8 city election for two seats on the Crossville city council.

Candidates qualifying include:

1) Jerry T. "J.J" Brownstead
2) Charles Cooper, Jr.
3) J. H. Graham, former mayor and councilman
4) Robert E. "Rob" Harrison,
5) Terri L. Manning
6) Jeanette W. Parsons
7) Scot Shanks
8) David E. Warner, former city councilman who served from Jan 1985-Dec 1992

Neither of the council members who currently hold the seats are running, Councilman Pete Souza previously announced he would not be running and while councilman Jesse Kerley took out papers he did not turn them back in.

While most of the candidates have not held office previously, candidates J. H. Graham has served as both a council member and many years as mayor.  He lost an election 2 years ago to current mayor James Mayberry.  David Warner previously held a council seat from 1985 to 1992.  

The candidates have a week to decide if they want to stay on the ballot and can withdraw by noon August 26 if they choose.  Otherwise their name will appear on the ballot for November 8.

October 11 is the deadline to register to vote in the November election according to the Cumberland County election office.

Early voting opens on October 19 and continues through November 3.
 

Incumbent Jesse Kerley not seeking reelection 

Incumbent Pete Souza not seeking reelection 

With one week to the deadline 8 city council candidates have qualified

Two additional names have qualified to appear on the November 8 ballot for the two expiring city council seats.

The newly qualified candidates are Jerry T. "J.J." Brownstead and Charles Cooper Jr. This brings the number of candidates vying for 2 council seats to a total of 8.

Previously qualified candidates included:

1) J. H. Graham, former mayor and councilman
2) Robert E. "Rob" Harrison, 
3) Terri L. Manning
4) Jeanette W. Parsons
5) Scot Shanks
6) David E. Warner, former city councilman who served from Jan 1985-Dec 1992

In addition, several candidates have taken out qualifying papers but have not yet turned them back in. The deadline to return the petitions with at least 25 registered city voters signatures is August 18 at noon. 

1) Barry Field (Field actually lives outside of the city limits and appears to be ineligible to run.) 
2) Jesse Kerley, currently holding one of the council seats up for election
3) Jack E. Miller, former Crossville city manager
4) Ronnie D. Wyatt, owner of Wyatt Construction

Candidates who qualify do have a week after the August 18 deadline to remove thier name from consideration if they choose to do so.

Latest on the upcoming Crossville city election—Possible New Candidates

Three new qualifying petitions have been signed out by possible candidates to run for Crossville city council in the upcoming November 8 election. Also, one additional petition has been turned back in.

New potential candidates who have taken out petitions include Robert E. Rob Harrison, long-time local Crossville businessman who runs Plateau Properties, Scot Shanks, another long time Crossville businessman and former owner of L. P. Shanks. The third candidate is Jack E. Miller, former city manager and interim city manager who lives in Holiday Hills.

Another candidate, Jeanette Parsons has turned her petition back in, bringing to 3 the number of petitions returned to the election commission. The other candidates who have turned papers back in include former Mayor J. H. Graham and Teri Manning.

Petitions previously taken out but not yet returned include incumbent councilman Jesse Kerley, and Barry Field. While Field took out papers, he does not qualify as a city resident and is likely not elligible to run for a council seat.

In the race for Mayor of Crab Orchard, Michael Findley and Emmett Sherrill have taken out qualifying papers and Mr. Sherrill the incumbent has turned his back in.

The deadline to turn in qualifying papers for the November election is August 18 at noon.