Election

Kentucky state Sen. Tom Buford faced no opposition and was elected Tuesday to another term in the 22nd-district seat, which represents Jessamine, Garrard and Boyle counties as well as the southern part of Fayette County. Buford, a Republican, has held the seat since winning it in the 1990 general election. He defeated challenger Chad Crouch by 700 votes in May’s primary despite losing in Jessamine County. Thirteen other races in the county Tuesday night involved only one candidate.

In a speech to Farm Bureau recently, Ben Chandler stated that debt “is one of the great issues of our day. It has gotten worse for a number of reasons. I could go into a laundry list of those reasons,”  — but he avoided doing so. The “laundry list,” however, is being lived out by Chandler, even though he refuses to speak about it. Chandler has lately been omnipresent, visiting libraries, passing out flags, appearing on TV warning of the dangers of using credit cards online and taking CPR lessons.

John Kenneth “Kenny” Book, of Ritz Court, has filed for re-election to the Winchester Board of Commissioners, seeking his 11th term. Book, 61, is completing his ninth consecutive term on the commission and served an earlier term. The owner of Book's Bookkeeping and Tax Service, Inc., Book has lived in Winchester almost 50 years. He previously lived in Illinois. Book serves on the Clark County GIS Consortium, the Strode Creek Conservancy, the Generations Center Board and the Kentucky Waterways Alliance.

Dear editor, Numerous yard signs and three large banners supporting Hugh Coomer were removed from their locations Monday night by parties unknown. All other candidates signs in the area were not touched, so the perpetrators were obviously singling out Mr. Coomer. I am sure Jamey Gay would not approve such behavior, but I hope he makes it clear that to any and all that he does not condone such activities in his behalf before the next election. Mrs. Virginia T. Gross Danville

Dear Editor, As I sat down and read the front page of The Advocate-Messenger on Wednesday, Feb. 28, several thoughts raced through my mind. First, I was taken back to elementary school and thought of how small children pick on others and then seem to enjoy the pain they have caused - maybe because they don't know any better. But as we grow older we are all taught the golden rule to "do unto others as you would have done unto you. " I have been a faithful reader of The Advocate-Messenger and have for the most part enjoyed the news.

With presidential nominations all but decided, Boyle County followed the statewide primary election trend of low voter turnout and less-than-resounding support for the presumptive nominees. Overall, turnout in Boyle was an anemic 7.3 percent. On the Democratic side, President Barack Obama received only 56.9 percent (456 votes) of the vote, with 43 percent (345) uncommitted. In the Republican primary, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who has been the front runner since the remaining candidates on the Kentucky ballot began dropping out weeks ago, got 66.8 percent (431)

Main Street Perryville elected its 2011-2014 board of directors Monday at its first meeting in the new year. Executive director Vicki Goode is excited about new events and initiatives in 2011 and said the board and its restructuring provides the organization with the right direction. “I think we have assembled a board that is going to be very active,” said Goode. “There’s a vast amount of knowledge and talent, as well as a remarkably varied skill set on the board.

“And after the strife of war begins the strife of peace.” — Carl Sandburg It’s been years since I jotted down American poet Carl Sandburg’s quote about “the strife of peace,” so I don’t remember what it’s from, but I was thinking that it could easily apply to this year’s elections. For more than a year, our country and commonwealth have been torn apart by a most uncivil war in which air attacks — in the form of false and hateful TV and radio ads — have slandered candidates for office.

The following candidates have filed for election in Mercer County. Magistrate District 3 , Larry Peyton, Democrat, 555 Unity Road, Harrodsburg; and Constable District 1 , Ray Tarter, Republican, 455 Roney Road, Harrodsburg.

The deadline for letters concerning Tuesday?s election is noon Thursday. Letters must be received at the Advocate-Messenger by that time to be published. Letters received by that time will be published on Friday, Sunday or Monday at the discretion of the editor.

STANFORD - Stanford Mayor Bill Miracle will not seek re-election when his current term expires at the end of 2014. Miracle, who also works with Lincoln Realty, said he wants to finish out his term and try to work his way back into the real estate business. “It's just time for me to go back into that,” he said. “I just feel like it's time to finish out this term and move on.” Miracle is in the middle of his second term as Stanford's mayor. He said he doesn't have any major goals in mind to finish before his term ends, but a lot already has been done thanks to cooperative members of the City Council.

Feb. 25, 1988 The Winchester-Clark County Ambulance Service Board approved a budget that calls for a $109, 000 increase for the 1988-89 fiscal year. This increase calls for a second on-duty crew 24 hours a day. Paul W. Richardson, Milwood Drive, will be unopposed for election to a seventh term in Kentucky House of Representatives.  He was first elected to the House in November 1975. Three county roads are scheduled for resurfacing which, in addition to regular maintenance, will make up the county's Rural Secondary Road Program following action Wednesday morning by he Clark County Fiscal Court.

The first changes to the Clark County Board of Education brought by the November election were put in place Tuesday with new leaders taking office. The board elected Dr. Michael Kuduk as its chairman and newcomer Michael McGowan as its vice chair. Board member Judy Hicks had previously served as chair and Debbie Fatkin, who was defeated by McGowan in November, was the previous vice chair. “I look forward to serving everyone in the community,” Kuduk said. “I want to do everything I can to foster communication between the board and the community we serve.” One of Kuduk's first acts was to schedule a series of work sessions for the board.

To the editor, I'm writing in regards to Christmas fundraiser that is for the poor and homeless children to have clothes and toys for Christmas. This was held by the Humble Hearts, Dennis and Brenda Rose, on Saturday, Nov. 3, at the City-County Park Blue Building. There was a great turnout for the 14th annual event. However, I am concerned, as there were no city or county officials there to support this event. I was told that other than Judge-Executive Neal Cassity, they did not receive donations this year from any of these officials.

To the editor, The election is finally over. As a person who does not have particular strong leanings to the right nor left, this election was extremely taxing. Additionally, as a young man, I have concern about the direction in which this nation is going. No, I'm not talking about Obama being re-elected or any of the issues that were favored or disfavored in the Nov. 6 election. I'm talking about the American people. One of the great privileges the citizens of this great nation have is the ability to vote and speak our minds.

I would like to thank the residents of Danville for electing me to the City Commission. I greatly appreciate the letters of support as well as those of you who placed signs in your yards. My promise to you is to serve our community in a positive manner and with great enthusiasm. I consider it an honor to be a member of the Danville City Commission. Paul Smiley Danville

It was a couple of hours before the polls closed on Tuesday afternoon, but some of the results in the area's most intriguing races were already known to a class of Centre College students and their professor. For the second time in as many years, a class of Centre government professor Benjamin Knoll's students were fanned out across the area conducting exit survey's at Boyle County precincts. The numbers they got from the first 500 or so of a total 1,461 voters (about 1,300 from Danville)

I, along with 3,999 others in Danville received two very important phone calls this week. The first call came around 8:50 p.m. on Nov. 4, the second arrived at 6 p.m. on Nov. 5. Both calls were a recorded statement from our current mayor, Bernie Hunstad.  I phoned Bernie to be removed from his call list, as I question the appropriateness of the current mayor calling 4,000 Danville residents and encouraging all to vote for one particular candidate as...

Boyle County general election voter totals: President: Republican, Mitt Romney , 7,703; Democrat, Barack Obama , 4,471; Green, Jill Stein , 40; Independent, Randall A. Terry, 41; Libertarian , Gary Johnson , 113. U.S. Representative, 2nd District: Republican, S. Brett Guthrie, 6,611; Democrat, David Lynn Williams, 4,305; Independent, Andrew R. Beacham, 326; Libertarian, Craig R. Astor, 222. State Representative, 54th...