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Bobo elected first Black mayor of West Point Rod Bobo WEST POINT On April 6, Rod Bobo stayed at the Clay County Civic Center until well after midnight, waiting for the results of the West Point Democratic Primary, a race he eventually won by 101 votes over Cole Bryan. If Bobo lost any sleep Tuesday night, it wasn’t from nervous anticipation. Bobo, 48, an insurance agent and former one-term city selectman, easily outpaced independent challenger Homer Ryland Jr., with 1,644 votes (83 percent) to Ryland’s 330, thus becoming the city’s first Black mayor in its 163-year history. By 9:30, when all of the votes had been counted, Bobo stood outside the Civic Center conducting TV interviews as a group of about three dozen supporters gathered around him. ....
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Bobo looks to be moving on in West Point mayor’s race Rod Bobo WEST POINT As the decisive absentee ballot counting stretched into the early morning hours Wednesday, Rod Bobo debated whether to leave the West Point Civic Center and find out the results later in the day. “It was grueling, just waiting and waiting,” Bobo said. “But I stuck around. I wouldn’t have been able to sleep anyway.” Finally, at about 1;30 a.m., Bobo got the news he had been waiting for. Bobo held a 90-vote advantage over his main competition, Cole Bryan 1,593 to 1,503 for the Democratic Party nominee for West Point mayor heading into the June 8 general election against Homer Ryland Jr. (Independent) and Jennifer Harper (Constitution). A third candidate in Tuesday’s Democratic Primary, Tammy Parkerson, didn’t factor into the outcome directly, but the 68 votes she received may yet cast the primary race into a runoff. ....
Bobo leads West Point mayor’s race with absentees still being processed Ken Poole WEST POINT Only one of West Point’s four Democratic primary races had been settled Tuesday evening due to a discrepancy in the absentee vote tallies. A computer readout of 594 absentee votes did not match the number of paper ballots counted, leaving election officials tediously looking to resolve the issue heading into midnight today. With enough absentee votes in each ward to alter the outcome, the winner in the mayoral primary and selectmen races in Wards 1 and Ward 5 had yet to be determined. Rod Bobo Only in Ward 3, where incumbent Ken Poole held a 122-vote lead over challenger Jonas Robinson with 112 absentee votes outstanding, did the outcome appear clear, although Democratic Party coordinator Jeanatta Edwards said an unknown number of affidavit ballots remained to be counted in that race as well. ....
Bryan, Bobo raise combined $38K ahead of mayoral primary WEST POINT Two Democratic candidates for mayor have raised more than $38,000 combined ahead of Tuesday’s primary election. Candidates for municipal races running in party primaries were required to file campaign finance primary pre-election reports by 5 p.m. Tuesday. Those reports must include the totals a candidate took in and spent, as well as itemize, or identify, each contribution or disbursement of more than $200. Those $200 or less can be considered non-itemized and are not required to be identified. Cole Bryan led the way at deadline, reporting $21,849 in contributions, $5,649 of which were not itemized. His itemized donations which the city clerk’s office provided The Dispatch in a handwritten list instead of on the official form included $4,200 from M. Sundbeck and Joy; $4,000 from J. Bryan; $1,200 from Old Waverly Properties; $1,000 from Robinhoods; $600 from S. Jameson; $500 each from K. Dill ....