It's Primary Day!

Well the day of the primary is finally here, today is the day when we find out who will be the final candidates for the Race for Sheriff in Faulkner County. In our estimation we think the race will come down to Democratic candidate Karl Byrd and Republican candidate Jim Elliott. Our readers seem to agree and have voted as follows in our poll:

Karl Byrd (D) - 211 votes (74.82%)
Jim Elliott (R) - 50 votes (17.73%)
Jack Pike (D) - 14 votes (4.96%)
Ronnie Buckner (R) - 7 votes (2.48%)

Both the leading candidates in the Race for Sheriff have experience at the state level working for the State Police and both these candidates have similar platforms expressing the need for change. In the next coming months it will be interesting to see how this race will go. Of course we may be counting our chickens before they hatch because anything happen. As the old saying goes that fat lady hasn't sang yet but let's just say she warming up her old windpipes.

Other races of interest on this day are those of Faulkner County Circuit Clerk and Justice of the Peace District 4.

In the Circuit Clerk's race we have two candidates with deputy circuit clerk experience, one is currently the chief deputy circuit clerk. In our poll our readers have picked current Chief Deputy Clerk Ronda S. Long as the winner voting as follows:

Rhonda S. Long (D) - 81 votes (85.26%)
Lorraine Wilkinson (D) – 14 votes (14.74%)

In the Justice of the Peace District 4 we have seen very little input from the public in this race. In our poll we have seen only a handful of votes but we think this will be a close one. Our readers voted:

Russell T. Webb (D) - 10 (66.67%)
JP Barbara Mathes (D) - 5 (33.33%)

At the State level we have several important races that will be set today. A couple of them will be decided today as well. In the State Senate we have two senate district which include Faulkner County, district 18 and 29, that will be decided today as well as a heated House of Representative District 47 race that has 4 candidates running. To find out more about these candidates visit Arelections.org.

But once again "it aign't over till it over" so get out and vote if you haven't done so already.