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Watauga County Municipal Election Results Print E-mail
Written by Adam Hicks
  
Tuesday, November 03 2009

Click below to see the results from the Watauga County Board of Elections.

Town of Blowing Rock:
Mayor
*J.B. Lawrence:  361 votes

Town Council (three open seats)
*Thomas Lee (Tommy) Klutz:  245 votes
*Jim Steele:  230 votes
*Doug Matheson:  205 votes
Pat Fountain:  190 votes
Mike Kebelbeck:  187 votes
George Sudderth:  174 votes
Jerry Starnes:  157 votes
Gary Lee Smith:  40 votes



Town of Boone:

Mayor
*Loretta Clawson:  787 votes
Tim Wilson:  474 votes
John J. Mena:  237 votes

Town Council (three open seats)
*Jamie Leigh:  937 votes
*Rennie Brantz:  884 votes
*Andy Ball:  828 votes
Matthew C. Long:  510 votes
Harold Frazier:  492 votes
Grant N. Holder:  189 votes
Thomas Benjamin Wilhite:  62 votes



Town of Seven Devils

Town Council (three open seats)
*Kay Ehlinger:  44 votes
*David A. Ehmig:  39 votes
*Bob Dodson:  32 votes
Bill Wilkinson:  30 votes



Town of Beech Mountain:

Town Council (three open seats)
*Paul Piquet:  90 votes
*Cindy Keller:  89 votes
*E. (Rick) Miller:  72 votes
Gil Adams:  67 votes
Peter K. Chamberlin:  55 votes
Barry Schorr:  33 votes
Randy Corn:  32 votes
David Conrad:  30 votes



*denotes winner

Special thank you to Dave Blanks for reporting unofficial numbers to High Country Radio.

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tardyhardy   Registered | 11/03/2009 10:41PM
In Blowing Rock, the locals really rule! Congrats to Doug, Tommy and Jim!

Boone gets more photo ops with toothy! Woooo hooooo!

Thanks to GBR for the results.
Greed Is good   Registered | 11/03/2009 11:43PM
This is a great day indeed! Now we can move on with the party plan for Boone and Watauga .
jeffersonjones   Registered | 11/04/2009 12:24AM
This is a great day indeed!

Any election day in this country is great as we select our leaders with the lead out of a pencil instead of lead out of a gun

Jeffersonjones 2009
beechbum   Registered | 11/04/2009 6:26AM
Just remember...It was the lead in those guns that gave us the opportunity to use the lead in our pencils!
Fried Chicken   Registered | 11/04/2009 10:09AM
Holy Chicken! You mean less than 10% of the Town of Boone population voted in the election yesterday?!? That is awful! I guess town citizens don't really give a damn after all.
NoBS   Registered | 11/04/2009 10:22AM
The ones who voted gave a damn, and they made their positions pretty clear I'd say.
Fried Chicken   Registered | 11/04/2009 10:39AM
Less than 10% of the population voted. That's despicable. The voice of the town is more than 1400 votes.
NoBS   Registered | 11/04/2009 11:45AM
Yeah. I guess the conservatives just couldn't get their votes out.
Fried Chicken   Registered | 11/04/2009 12:23PM
Check yer facts. Jamie Leigh and Andy Ball seem to be somewhat conservative. Or did you mean the Republicans didn't get their votes out? They aren't mutually exclusive, y'know.
NoBS   Registered | 11/04/2009 3:16PM
The bottom line is that the most progressive candidates won all the way around and the most conservative candidates lost. Jamie Leigh and Andy Ball seem "somewhat conservative" compared to whom? The most conservative candidates running for Council were Holder, Frazier, and to a much lesser extent, Long.
beechbum   Registered | 11/04/2009 12:02PM
Yep...Liberal whiners, tree huggers, King street freaks....exactly why I DON"T live in the town limits.
wildman   Registered | 11/05/2009 9:26PM
Thank you.
paulman1   Registered | 11/04/2009 12:51PM
The "Armageddon" is coming in 2012 anyways, so I don't think it will make much of a difference of who is holding office...
Just call me Bill   Registered | 11/04/2009 2:32PM
While I recognize that ASU students have the right to vote, I have to wonder if the election would have had a different outcome if ASU voters had not been given preferential treatment as to where they could cast early ballots. Perhaps a thread could be posted informing us of the results of the early ballot returns.
Artie_Lange   Registered | 11/04/2009 2:57PM
It was an embarrassing turnout for all parties!
jeffersonjones   Registered | 11/04/2009 6:34PM
After 8 years of George Bush, I believe people are turned off at the idea of voting. They have seen how much damage they can do with a ballot.
abacab   Registered | 11/04/2009 8:20PM
After 6 months of Obama that is probably correct.
Artie_Lange   Registered | 11/05/2009 12:16AM
That's some pretty backwards thinking. Maybe that's the norm over in Ashe?
jeffersonjones   Registered | 11/04/2009 9:17PM
Yep, your right. The stock market is up 20 % from the day he was elected. It will take more than 6 months to over come 96 months of poor leadership.
Fried Chicken   Registered | 11/05/2009 9:26AM
George W. Bush wasn't the only one to blame for the debacle. Look back to Reagan, the senior Bush, and Clinton as well. Oh, and don't forget Congress either.
Ali Baba   Registered | 11/05/2009 11:45AM
Just call me Bill, you forgot to mention (or overlooked) the preferential treatment given to anyone who works or lives close to downtown Boone. There was not one, but TWO early voting locations in Boone. The Courthouse and Ag Center. Where is your outrage at the extreme convenience for these people? You know, what if someone lived over, say, near the hospital, and had to drive ALL the way into downtown Boone, just to cast an early vote? Your right, driving those grueling 3-4 miles is a huge sacrifice that few were willing to make.
Just call me Bill   Registered | 11/05/2009 1:32PM
You make a good point in your attempt a sarcasm. If we are going to have early voting, polls should be open in every district. Apparently you were right in your assessment that driving three or four miles was an effort most would not make. The low turnout supports this. It was certainly easier to go into a building you walk by three or four times a day, so yes ASU students got preferential treatment.
wildman   Registered | 11/05/2009 9:29PM
The people that made this country great seem to have all died off. Voting should be done my the majority not the minority. Guess we have the tail wagging the dog and the dog is dead.
Ali Baba   Registered | 11/06/2009 8:41AM
You still have not given your opinion on the preferential treatment given to anyone who lives/works near downtown Boone since they had TWO early voting locations. You also seem to suggest that driving to a voting location is such an inconvenience. If you're too lazy to drive to vote, then you shouldn't be voting anyway.
Just call me Bill   Registered | 11/06/2009 9:52AM
Apparently I was not clear in my response. I feel that polls for early voting that do not include a location in every precinct affected by the election is not fair. If you do not have them everywhere, they should be nowhere. We certainly did not need early voting to handle the massive turnout in this election.
NoBS   Registered | 11/05/2009 11:51AM
It is unfair to "blame" the progressives just because they won. The conservative candidates had an equal opportunity to win and didn't.
wildman   Registered | 11/05/2009 9:38PM
Progressive? Building parks is progressive? Well you don't actually build a park you just don't let anyone build on it. So where are all the people going to live? The new students? Employees? Guess the "Progressive" way would to send them out of town to build in the county, on farm lands and forests. Then we can have them drive in to school and work to clog our already crowded streets. Wow that sounds "Progressive"
Ali Baba   Registered | 11/06/2009 8:46AM
Parks built that would be better served as housing? Where? Examples please.
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