Live Blogging: Temporary Appointments Meeting

District 6: Smooth process, Roundtree appointed

District 2: A few rounds of voting to eliminate Williams, then Campen edges out Wolfenbarger. Moore votes repeatedly for Wolfenbarger to show good faith.

District 9: 10-1 for Victoria DeFreese, with only Norman voting for Pleasant

District 1: First fireworks. McKenzie, Cox, Boyd,and Baah nominated. Baah says nominating candidates going to the general is wrong and withdraws himself, asking the Commissioners not to nominate McKenzie as well. Jimmy Golden self-nominates, but only to make a speech about problems he sees in the district and wants to draw attention to. Pete Drew speaking to Commission now, berating them over the process (appointing those involved in the general election). Perhaps this will set the tone for the Fifth district debate?

First round of voting McKenzie 10-1. That sets the tone for Briggs to be elected in the Fifth.

Doing #8: Wright and Boyer nominated. Short speeches by the candidates.
Ivan Harmon, Norman- Boyer
rest - Wright

Finally, 4-B!!!! Nominations:
MarkH - Davis
Norman- Daniels
IvanH - Wojnar
Leuthold- Brummitt
Lumpy- Alford

Mostly short speeches saying thanks. Let's vote!

Harmon speaks in favor of both Davis and Daniels, pushing the highest vote-getters. Other commissioners speak about how good the slate is.

Vote#1:
Strickland-Davis
MH-Davis
Norman- Daniels
IH-Wojnar
Hammond- Daniels
Leuthold- Brummit
Lambert-Alford
RLSmith-Daniels
Moore-Alford
Ballard-Daniels
Pinkston-Alford

Tone set for Daniels and Alford to win the two seats? The pro-development crowd will fight hard to get Alford on, which means Elaine is probably out.

Vote#2 (can't drop of since there is no one "loser" to drop off):
Strickland-Davis
MH-Davis
Norman- Daniels
IH-Wojnar
Hammond- Daniels
Leuthold- Brummit
Lambert-Alford
RLSmith-Daniels
Moore-Alford
Ballard-Daniels
Pinkston-Brummit**

Wojnar drops off, vote#3:
Strickland-Davis
MH-Davis
Norman- Daniels
IH-Brummitt
Hammond- Daniels
Leuthold- Brummit
Lambert-Alford
RLSmith-Daniels
Moore-Alford
Ballard-Daniels
Pinkston-Alford

Davis and Brummitt now on the cutting block.
Strickland-Davis
MH-(PASS), than changes to Daniels
Norman- Daniels
IH-Brummitt
Hammond- Daniels
Leuthold- Brummit
Lambert-Alford
RLSmith-Daniels
Moore-Alford
Ballard-Daniels
Pinkston-Alford?

Davis cut, but that's a strategic move to put her in round two. Very smart!!!!

Strickland-Daniels
MH-Daniels
Norman- Daniels
IH-Brummitt
Hammond- Daniels
Leuthold- Brummit
Lambert-Alford
RLSmith-Daniels
Moore-Alford
Ballard-Daniels
Pinkston-Alford

Daniels is in with 6. Second round for Fourth will be more interesting.

District 5 now...
MH/Norman nominate Tracey
IH/Hammond/Leuthold/Lambert/ nominates Briggs.

Tracey gives a good speech about voters wanting a fair election. But the vote in First says to me that Briggs is going to get it. Will there be backlash in August? We'll see.

Vote:
Strickland-Briggs
MH-Tracey
Norman-Tracey
IH-Briggs
Hammond-Briggs
Leuthold-Briggs
Lambert-Briggs
RLSmith-Briggs
Moore-Briggs
Ballard-Briggs
Pinkston-Briggs

So much for caretakers.

On to 4-A. Same nominations. Mike Hammond speaks in favor of Davis. Looks like a Davis-Alford fight.

Strickland-Davis
MH-Davis
Norman-Davis
IH-Wojnar
Hammond- Davis
Leuthold- Brummit
Lambert-Alford
RLSmith-Davis
Moore-Alford
Ballard-Davis
Pinkston-Alford

Elaine wins first round!!!

Wow. Commission did a great job overall. You can argue voting in people that are in the August election, but time will tell if that is the "kiss of death" for the candidates.

Kudos to 'Tank' Strickland for running a tight ship today. He's a great chairman.