CALIFORNIA CITY RACE UNSETTLED : INGRAM AHEAD, BUT 1,000 WRITE-IN BALLOTS FOR MAYOR UNCOUNTED.Byline: Jim Skeen and Charles F. Bostwick Daily News Staff Writers California City's mayoral race remained undecided Wednesday with more than 1,000 write-in ballots still uncounted. Kern Kern, river, 155 mi (249 km) long, rising in the S Sierra Nevada Mts., E Calif., and flowing south, then southwest to a reservoir in the extreme southern part of the San Joaquin valley. The river has Isabella Dam as its chief facility. County election officials said Councilman Paul Ingram Paul Ingram was the county Republican Party Chairman of Thurston County, Washington and the Chief Civil Deputy of the Sheriff's department, accused by his daughters of satanic ritual abuse in 1988. received 825 votes, outdistancing incumbent Mayor Richard Hall, who had 604. But they said California City Middle School Principal Larry Adams filed as a write-in candidate Noun 1. write-in candidate - a candidate for public office whose name does not appear on the ballot and so must be written on the ballot by the voters write-in campaigner, candidate, nominee - a politician who is running for public office , and there are approximately 1,025 ballots with write-in votes that won't be verified and counted until next week. ``We can't verify that they are qualified write-ins until we start counting the write-ins Monday,'' said Hugh Denton, the county's chief deputy registrar of voters. Because there are 15 write-in candidates for nine different Kern County races - including five write-in candidates for president alone - the California City write-in ballots probably won't be counted until Nov. 15, Denton said. By law, the county has a Dec. 3 deadline to certify cer·ti·fy v. cer·ti·fied, cer·ti·fy·ing, cer·ti·fies v.tr. 1. a. To confirm formally as true, accurate, or genuine. b. the election results. Adams said county officials told him Wednesday they expect the final results to be close. He said he filed as a write-in candidate after a number of people encouraged him to run and offered to help him campaign. ``I had some name recognition, good or bad,'' Adams said. ``Some people love you and some people hate you when you discipline their kids.'' He said he gave talks around town, erected three campaign signs and used telephone calls to voters to get his name out, running a positive campaign and seeking to calm the bickering bick·er intr.v. bick·ered, bick·er·ing, bick·ers 1. To engage in a petty, bad-tempered quarrel; squabble. See Synonyms at argue. 2. that characterizes California City politics. In the City Council race, incumbents Tom Logudice and Harold O'Brien were unseated by political newcomers Nick Lessenevitch and Harry Bailey This article is about the Australian psychiatrist. For the character in Geoffrey Chaucer's poem also named Harry Bailey, see The Canterbury Tales. Harry Bailey (1925 - September 8, 1985) was a controversial Australian psychiatrist. . ``We've had in the past a council that was not responsive to the electorate,'' Lessenevitch, a dentist dentist /den·tist/ (den´tist) a person with a degree in dentistry and authorized to practice dentistry. den·tist n. A person who is trained and licensed to practice dentistry. , said Wednesday. ``I'm hoping with my addition and Harry Bailey's addition, we can work together and respond to the community.'' Bailey, an Air Force retiree, did not return phone calls. Adams could not be reached for comment. One of the immediate problems for the new council is determining how Proposition 218 affects the city's new assessment for fire services
Fire Services (Chinese:消防) is a Hong Kong football club. The majority of the players are working for the Fire Services Department in Hong Kong and playing for the club on . The assessment was intended to raise $828,425 annually. Proposition 218 states that no fee may be charged for fire or any other service widely available to the public. The proposition affects existing assessments established after Dec. 31, 1994, without a vote of the people. |
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