Commissioner Oatney?
Stacey Campfield asks:"Will you run?"
He is asking whether I will run to replace one of the 12 incumbent Knox County Commissioners who may be forced not to run for re-election as a result of the State Supreme Court ruling yesterday.
To be fair to these 12, it seems that the Election Commission doesn't have a clue yet what they are going to do. Stacey referred to today as "draft day," and pointed out that there will be a real hurry to replace these candidates with the Primary being the first week of May. He is right-but this could have a huge impact on who can run, it may make the filing deadline unreasonably soon and not give enough time to circulate petitions or campaign. If I were to run, I'd be shocked if I ran in the GOP Primary unopposed. I told Stacey this:
Assuming that I meet the Constitutional requirements for the office I would be running for, I would be glad to run if people asked and showed me there was enough support for it.
I stand by that. Let's just say I am going to have to do a little research-perhaps very fast research, and we are all going to have to see just what happens to the Twelve. If they really all get cut-well, I'll talk about it some more then-we'll see just what exactly happens.
For the record, I live in the 2nd District.
posted by Deacon David Oatney @ 2:56 PM
5 Comments:
David -
The petition is a piece of cake. The VOLConWife picked her petition up Wednesday morning (before the TSC released the opinion), and I plan to have it returned (as her Treasurer and Campaign Manager) by Monday.
The financial disclosures are a bit trickier given the new ethics law, but you could handle it.
Cheers,
Rob
What is the state requiring per financial disclosure now? You are welcome to e-mail me privately if you wish.
I have made NO decisions yet-I have a few people I need to talk to, not the least of whom is the Lord.
Dave, I'll do all I can from Cincinnati. Unfortunately this isn't a whole lot, but let me know what I can do. I'm all about Team Oatney!
Run David. You would make Knoxville proud.
Terry
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