Election

Did you know the biggest lie ever told was when Satan, the Devil, deceived Eve into disobeying her creator? Bill Clinton will go down in history as one of the biggest liars in the world, after he told people like you and me he did not have sex with that woman. I kind of dread the last two months before an election. Democrats and Republicans start airing their political (lies) messages, condemning their opponents. Lying is becoming the norm since the breakdown of morality, starting at the White House and same sex marriage.

Just as I was getting my thoughts organized for a letter to the editor, another writer, Shirley Culton, of Danville, pre-empted me. I agree with this writer 100 percent. The president is the one not to be trusted, not Mitt Romney. The president is the one who has his personal life sealed. We are not even sure he is an American citizen. Just one more thing - the Obama administration will apparently do anything to get re-elected, they refuse to enforce the duly constituted laws requiring deportation of illegal aliens, and they actively oppose states that try to enforce these laws.

Tuesday at 4 p.m. was the filing deadline for local elections. The following are candidates who filed for seats, listed by county.    Lincoln County   Magistrate, District 2: Bill Dyehouse, Democrat; and Lonnie Pruitt, Republican. Stanford City Council: Eddie Carter, Scottie Ernst, Greg Findling, Amy Rice Hazlett, Naren James, Scott Maples, Tom Moser, Mike Southerland and Bobby Wilkinson. Board of Education: District 3, Michael D. Gourley, David S. Hacker and Theresa Sanders Long.

Tuesday at 4 p.m. was the deadline to file to run for any of the local offices up for election in Lincoln County this fall. The following is the final list of eligible candidates, according to a list provided by County Clerk Sonny Spoonamore. Candidates are listed in alphabetical order.   Magistrate,  2nd District Bill Dyehouse, Democrat; and Lonnie Pruitt, Republican.   Stanford City Council Eddie Carter, Scottie Ernst, Greg Findling, Amy Rice Hazlett, Naren James, Scott Maples, Tom Moser, Mike Southerland and Bobby Wilkinson.

Darrick Briscoe has filed candidacy papers to run for a seat on the Danville Board of Education. Briscoe, 38, of Ridge View Drive is seeking one of the two seats up for grabs in the November election. On the Danville school board where members are elected at-large, the seats held by Lonnie Harp and Julie Erwin are up for a vote. Erwin's seat is already vacant because she recently resigned due to a move from Danville, while Harp has filed to run again.  Kate Graves also is running.

Potential candidates interested in running for office in the Nov. 6 general election have until 4 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 14, to file with the Clark County Clerk's office. Several local races are on the Nov. 6 ballot, with all four seats on the Winchester Board of Commissioners up for grabs, as well as three Clark County Board of Education seats and the 73rd District Kentucky House of Representatives seat. Five people have filed so far for the four non-partisan City Commission seats - incumbent commissioners Shannon Cox, Kenny Book, Kitty Strode and Rick Beach, as well as former mayoral candidate Ralph Harrison.

As the blame game by Democrats continues blaming George Bush and the Republications for their failures, recession and economic problems, etc., here are some facts about the situation:  1. The real problems with the economy started in the middle of George Bush's second term after the Democrats took control of both houses of Congress. 2. With Democrats in control, President Bush couldn't do much to constrain them so within two years they were well on their way to wrecking the economy.  3. Then after Obama won the White House and was sworn in, in January 2009, the Democrats were in total control of all three major areas of government - the House of Representatives, the Senate and the White House.    4. They continued unchecked for two more years, wrecking the economy until the Republicans took back control of the House of Representatives in 2010 and at least slowed them down.

With the filing deadline for school-board candidates less than two months away, one incumbent has already declared she will not run for re-election. Three of the five seats on the Jessamine County Board of Education are up for election Nov. 6: The first district, currently represented by Eugene Peel; the second district, currently represented by Amy Day; and the third district, currently represented by JoAnn Rohrback. Rohrback has said this year that she will not seek re-election and reiterated that point after Monday night's board meeting, saying she believed in term limits.

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)

About 7.2 percent of the registered voters in Clark County showed up to the polls Tuesday to cast their votes in the presidential and 6th Congressional District primaries. That is lower than the 10 percent predicted by Secretary of State Alison Grimes before Tuesday, and much lower than the 20 percent Clark County Clerk Anita Jones predicted. In the Democratic presidential primary, 958 people cast their votes, with about 50 percent voting for President Barack Obama and about 50 percent marking uncommitted.