Jefferson County voters go with flow, favor Smith to replace Emerson

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Jefferson County voters go with flow, favor Smith to replace Emerson

Posted June 5, 2013 at 10:04 pm

Jefferson County voters, in agreement with the majority of voters in Missouri’s new 8th Congressional District, chose Republican Jason Smith to serve as their U.S. representative in the special election Tuesday (June 4).

The election replaces Jo Ann Emerson, the Republican who resigned from Congress in January to take a job as president and CEO of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.

In Jefferson County, only 8.26 percent of the county’s 39,000 registered voters in the 8th District went to the polls. That came to 3,228 votes, with 1,862 votes for Smith, a state representative from Salem (57.68 percent); 1,244 votes for Democrat Steve Hodges of East Prairie (38.54 percent); 69 votes for Doug Enyart of Piedmont. (2.14 percent); and 52 votes

Waller seeks re-election as county exec; Huey to run for County Council

Ken Waller says he plans to seek re-election as Jefferson County executive, while Charles Huey has tossed his hat in the ring for the Jefferson County Council District 3 seat, representing the Arnold area.

Both positions will be up for election in 2014, with primary elections in August and the general election in November. They both carry four-year terms.

Waller, a Republican, became the first county executive when he won his race for the

Arnold, Pevely top county in April 2 voting percentages

Contested races and tax measures in Arnold and Pevely drew voters to the April 2 polls in those towns in far greater numbers than the countywide voter turnout of 10 percent, Jefferson County Clerk Wes Wagner reports.

Across the county, 14,171 of 139,946 registered voters cast ballots in the election.

“There were many places with less than 5 percent,” Wagner said.

■ The Arnold mayor’s race

Ballot Issues: Pevely

Proposition A (Simple Majority)

Shall Chapter 605 of the Pevely City Code, Business, Merchant and Manufacturers License, be amended to impose a fee of $60.00 (Sixty Dollars) per employee with a maximum cap of $3,000.00 (Three Thousand Dollars) per Manufacturing Business with a minimum Fee for a Manufacturing License of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) and to impose a fifty cents ($.50) per One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) in gross receipts on all sales within the City but to exclude sales of gasoline

Ballot Issue: Northwest School District

Proposition C (Simple Majority)

Shall the Board of Education of the Northwest R-1 School District make permanent the

Proposition C Waiver, originally approved by voters in 1995 and set to expire in 2015, for the purpose of retaining qualified staff, maintaining school facilities and meeting operating expenses of the school district?

Voters in the Northwest R-1 School District, which covers much of the western

Ballot Issue: Rock Community Fire Protection District

Fire-Rescue Bond Issue – 2013 (4/7thMajority)

Shall the Rock Community Fire Protection District issue its general obligation bonds in the amount of ten million dollars ($10,000,000) for the purpose of refinancing existing outstanding lease obligations, acquiring new and replacement fire-fighting equipment and vehicles, acquiring, constructing, renovating and equipping fire stations and related facilities, including acquiring any real estate necessary therefore?

The Rock Community Fire Protection District will ask voters April 2

Ballot Issue: De Soto Rural Fire Protection District

PROPOSITION FIRE (Simple Majority)

Shall the Board of Directors of the De Soto Rural Fire Protection District be authorized to levy an additional tax of not more than thirty cents ($0.30) on the one hundred dollars assessed valuation to provide funds for support of the district?

After failing to pass a tax increase in April 2012 by only six votes, De Soto Rural Fire Protection District officials are trying again on

Ballot Issues: Festus

Festus Use Tax (Simple Majority)

Shall the City of Festus, Missouri, impose a local use tax at the same rate as the total local sales tax, currently at a rate of two percent (2%), provided that if the local sales tax is repealed, reduced or raised by voter approval, the local use tax shall also be repealed, reduced or raised by the same action? A use tax return shall not be required to be filed

Ballot Issue: Crystal City

Question (Simple Majority)

Shall the City of Crystal City, Missouri, impose a local use tax at the same rate as the total local sales tax, currently at a rate of one and seventy-five one-hundredths percent (1.75%), provided that if the local sales tax is repealed, reduced or raised by voter approval, the local use tax shall also be repealed, reduced or raised by the same action? A use tax return shall not be

Arnold Mayor

Incumbent Counts faces challenge from Borgelt

Ron Counts faces a challenge in his bid to serve a second four-year term as Arnold’s mayor in the April 2 election. Doris Borgelt, who currently represents Ward 1 on the City Council, is running against him.

The mayor will be paid a salary of $27,018 per year.

Counts,

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Election aftermath: Four issues win, three lose

Four tax propositions passed and three were defeated in final, unofficial balloting in the Tuesday (April 2)

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