LAWYER JOHN MEYER.
CANDIDATE FILING CLOSED TODAY
FOR COUNTY OFFICES AROUND THE
STATE.
M-T-N'S JONATHON AMBARIAN LOOKS
AT LEWIS AND CLARK COUNTY'S
UPCOMING ELECTIONS...
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NO LAST-MINUTE CANDIDATES FILED
HERE AT THE LEWIS AND CLARK
COUNTY ELECTIONS OFFICE MONDAY.
THAT WILL LEAVE TWO CONTESTED
COUNTY RACES FOR NOVEMBER.
SHERIFF LEO DUTTON, A DEMOCRAT,
IS FACING A CHALLENGE FROM
HIGHWAY PATROL SERGEANT JAY
NELSON, A REPUBLICAN.
BOTH MEN ARE RUNNING FOR THE
NEWLY COMBINED OFFICE OF
SHERIFF-CORONER.
THE COUNTY COMMISSION VOTED TO
CONSOLIDATE THE POSITIONS LAST
YEAR.
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
KATRINA CHANEY, A REPUBLICAN, IS
ALSO FACING A CONTESTED RACE IN
NOVEMBER. REG HAGEMAN, A CAPITAL
HIGH PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHER,
FILED LATE LAST WEEK AS A
DEMOCRAT. FOUR OTHER COUNTY
OFFICERS WILL BE RUNNING
UNOPPOSED FOR REELECTION.
COUNTY COMMISSIONER ANDY
HUNTHAUSEN, COUNTY ATTORNEY LEO
GALLAGHER, CLERK AND RECORDER
PAULETTE DEHART AND JUSTICE OF
THE PEACE MIKE SWINGLEY.
JONATHON AMBARIAN, M-T-N NEWS,
