LAKELAND Mike Musick edged Shandale Terrell on Tuesday night to win Lakeland s Southeast District seat in the runoff election.
Musick received 50.7% of the ballots cast for the May 4 runoff. He beat Terrell by a slim margin of 146 votes out of the 10,646 ballots cast, according to the unofficial results posted by Polk County Supervisor of Elections.
Musick will be sworn into office at the upcoming May 17 City Commission meeting to serve the remaining seven months of former City Commissioner Scott Franklin s term. Franklin resigned last year upon launching his successful campaign for U.S. House District 15. I think the city chose the right candidate, Musick told The Ledger. I will get to the hard work.
Republican Women s Club of Lakeland
The Republican Women’s Club of Lakeland meets at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Grasslands Country Club, 1600 Grasslands Blvd., in Lakeland.
Charlie Hardage of the of Bishop & Mills Law Firm is the guest speaker. Hardage worked in the Cross-Border Dispute Resolution Group of the Beijing office of an international law firm, and lived in China for eight years.
Social time begins at 11:15 a.m. and lunch at 11:30 a.m. Lunch is available with a reservation to Noel Trees, 863-680-1340, leave a message, or mtrees1@tampabay.rr.com. Lunch is $22. The meeting is free.
Republican Club of Lakeland
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Republican Club of Lakeland
The Republican Club of Lakeland will host attorney Charlie Hardage on Jan. 13 at 11:30 a.m. at Cleveland Heights Country Club. Hardage will present “Avoiding Chinese Communist Party Influence in the United States.” Hardage is with the law firm Bishop & Mills. He is an experienced dispute resolution counsel with a background in U.S. court litigation, cross-border dispute resolution, and international commercial arbitration.
An election will be held for the 2021 Republican Club of Lakeland executive board.
Attendance is free, and an optional lunch menu will be available at a cost of $20 for members and non-members. Please RSVP by visiting https://lakelandgop.com. RSVP’s must be received by Jan. 8.