Candidates

for Fayette County elective offices are featured

in a special section starting on Page 8A in

today's edition of The Citizen.

Twenty-five

candidates are vying either for offices that will

be decided in the July 18 General Primary, or are

in contested races for their parties' nominations

in the primary.

The

Citizen sent questionnaires to candidates in all

the contested races, and answers are printed in

the Election 2000 section. If there is not enough

space to include all the candidates' answers, the

remainder will be carried in the July 12 edition.

Candidates

who did not complete and return their

questionnaires will not be included.

Each

candidate was given up to 250 words to answer

each question, and the same biographical

information will be included on each candidate.

Nonpartisan

races and those with candidates from only one

party will be decided July 18 in the General

Primary. Those with both Democrat and Republican

candidates - five races - will be

decided Nov. 7 in the General Election.

Fourteen

incumbents will return to office without

opposition, and one vacated seat will be filled

without an election - Janet Smola is

the only candidate who signed up to run for Board

of Education Post 1, which is being voluntarily

vacated by board Chairman Debbie Condon.

Nine

contested party nominations or nonpartisan local

races will be on the ballot July 18: County

Commission Post 1 and Post 3, Board of Education

Post 2 and Post 3, Magistrate Judge Post 1 and

Post 3, a Superior Court judgeship, state Senate

District 28, and the 3rd District seat in the

U.S. Congress.

Both

Democrats and Republicans will have contested

party races for Congress.

Democrats

will run without opposition for nomination in the

County Commission Post 1 and school board Post 3

races, and will face the winners of the

Republican nominations in November.

For

clerk of Superior Court, one candidate from each

major party is running without opposition in

July, and the two will face each other in

November.

The

same is true for state Senate District 34.

Incumbents

who will be returned to office without challenge

in either party include Sheriff Randall Johnson,

Commissioner Herb Frady in Post 2, Superior Court

judges Paschal English Jr. and Ben Miller,

district attorney Bill McBroom, State Court Judge

Fletcher Sams, State Court Solicitor Steven L.

Harris, Probate Judge Martha Stephenson, coroner

C. J. Mowell Jr., Tax Commissioner George Wingo,

post 2 Magistrate Judge Kenneth Melear, Post 4

Magistrate Judge James A. White, 104th District

state Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, and 105th District

state Rep. Kathy Cox.

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