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Candidates Forum tonight

October 03, 2006|Brittany Griffin

Tonight will be the first of two political forums scheduled in the coming weeks for local candidates. The forum will be at the Clark County Extension Office on Fortune Drive at 6 p.m., with a meet and greet at 5:30. Voters will hear from candidates for several offices, in the following order: 6-6:25: County judge-executive, whose candidates are incumbent John Myers (Republican), former treasurer Henry Branham (Democrat) and write-in candidate Robert Stone.

6:25-6:50: Sheriff, a campaign between two newcomers, Berl Perdue Jr. (Republican) and William Elkins (Democrat).

6:50-7:15: Jailer, between incumbent Bobby Stone (Democrat) and Daniel Konstantopoulos (Republican).

7:15-7:40: County attorney, whose candidates are incumbent Gardner Wagers (Republican) and challenger Brian Thomas (Democrat).

7:40-8:05 School board, 1st District, where incumbent Rick Perry will face Joseph Robert Drumm.

8:05-8:30: School board, 4th District, where incumbent Judy Hicks will face Dr. William Richard Catron.

8:30-8:55: District judge from the 25th district, whose candidates include Brandy Oliver Brown and Earl Ray Neal.

8:55-9:20: State representative, a race between Democratic incumbent Don Pasley and Republican Ralph Alvarado.

Each candidates will get two minutes for an opening statement, and then the audience will have 10 minutes to ask questions for each category. After that, each candidate will have five minutes for closing comments, according to Lisa Stephens, a secretary with the office of Community Education.

A second forum on Oct. 16 will have candidates for the Winchester Board of Commissioners, the mayor's office and county magistrates, who make up the fiscal court.

Also on the ballot will be a referendum regarding the fiscal court, proposing a change from the seven-magistrate system to one with three commissioners.

The petition for the referendum was started by former judge-executive candidate Leland True.

Should this proposal be approved, district lines would have to be redrawn from seven to three, and the changes would not take place until 2010.

Each district would then nominate both a Democratic and Republican candidate, and the county would elect the commissioners at large from that pool of nominees.

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