March 24, 2024 • 15 mins
Have you ever witnessed a political transformation unfold? Join us as we chat with Scott Bevington, a seasoned political figure from Fayette County, Indiana, who traces their path from a childhood marked by President Nixon's resignation to a dynamic career within the political arena. Our guest opens up about their early fascination with politics, an internship that cemented their passion, and the profound impact of Franklin Roosevelt's WPA and labor unions on their hometown of Connersville. This intimate tale of political awakening and identity is sure to captivate and inspire.
Learn about the nuances of county versus city government from someone who's held the reins, and get a peek into the life of a political stalwart who's juggled various elected roles with zeal. Our guest's dedication to public service is a beacon for those intrigued by the sacrifices and commitment needed to navigate the choppy waters of local politics – a true testament to serving one's community against the backdrop of ever-shifting party lines.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Let's see if I say this right County Council at
large for Fayette County,Indiana.
That's right Sweet.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
But one of my earliest memories as a child was
watching Richard Nixon resignfrom office, and while I didn't
understand all about Watergateand what was going on from that
point forward, I was alwaysinterested in politics.
I really had an almost anunhealthy Like an obsession
(00:32):
Obsession with it, and I neverdid quite get rid of it.
And when I was in college I hadan internship at the State
House and I walked in there thatnight to take the test to see
if I could become one and I wentoh yeah, this is what I want to
do.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Really so when you did your internship, were you
assigned to a certain politicianor I was assigned to the media
office of the Indiana DemocraticParty.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Okay, growing up in Connorsville, you have to
understand the history of ourcommunity and Franklin
Roosevelt's WPA during theDepression was very good to our
hometown.
And with the subsequent powerof labor unions after
Roosevelt's time, when you grewup when I did and you were
(01:26):
interested in politics, morelikely than not you thought of
yourself as a Democrat becauseyour kids and grandkids, your
parents and grandparents,thought of themselves that way.
But when I got to thelegislature I began looking
around, going this isn't how Ithink.
So I went to my staterepresentative who was in his
(01:48):
first term at the time.
Who was that?
His name was Steve Robbins andhe is a businessman in
Connorsville.
He was in his first term and Isaid to him he was an old family
friend.
And I said, steve, what am Igoing to do?
And Robbins gave me the bestpolitical advice I ever got.
He said you are too young todecide what you are and what you
are not.
(02:09):
Take your time, look ateverything and then decide.
And five years later, on abeautiful spring day in 1996, I
walked into the National GuardArmoury in Connorsville where my
precinct was and I asked for myfirst Republican ballot and you
should have seen the peopleworking the polls that day.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Their jaws hit the desk, so they weren't used to
that.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
No, they weren't used to me coming in and asking for
a Republican ballot.
That was a brand new thing, andI did it because I knew in my
heart that I was a ReaganRepublican and I still am.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
So when you said a Republican ballot, was that a
straight ticket?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
It was the primary.
So in Indiana during theprimary you can ask for whatever
ballot you want Democrat orRepublican and I had always
asked for a Democrat ballotbefore.
But I knew in 1996 I was aRepublican.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
So tell me about the position that you are running
for.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Okay, it is Fayette County Council and it is an at
large seat.
There are four districts andthree at large seats, so anybody
in the county can vote for upto three people when they pick
up a Republican ballot on May7th, and there are six people,
(03:30):
including myself, that arerunning for these three
positions.
I've been honored over the lastfour years to be one of those
county council positions InIndiana locally.
The city and county governmentsare a little different.
The mayor is the executive bodyof a city.
(03:52):
The city council is both thelegislative and fiscal body In
the county.
The county commissioners arethe executive body and
legislative body.
The council is only the fiscalbody.
So the only way we can affectpolicy per se is choosing not to
fund something that's beingrequested by the commissioners
(04:13):
or another county electedofficial, or reducing it at a
lower level than what's beenrequested.
We can't add something in thathasn't been requested.
That's just not legal for us todo.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Give me a rundown, give me a timeline of positions
that you've been elected to andhave held throughout your
lifetime here on our next callSam Nasser.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Well, you know I got to thinking about this on the
way over here.
I was on the committee thatraised enough money to buy our
permanent Republicanheadquarters.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Was that a county?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Fayette County.
Fayette County headquartersRepublican headquarters.
We bought the building.
I forget what year it was, butit was early on when I became
active.
So I've been on the CentralCommittee now 27 years.
I served on Congressional CityCouncil as a Republican during
the term of Mayor Morrie Connellin the early aughts.
(05:17):
I've been our county chairmantwice.
The second time I took a tookover a term that had been
vacated when the CentralCommittee unanimously asked me
to come back to finish it.
I ran for mayor in 2003 andlost in the primary.
(05:42):
I ran for state representativein 2006 and lost in the primary.
I've been a state conventiondelegate eight times from
Fayette County.
My son was actually theyoungest Fayette County delegate
in history.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Oh, wow 2016.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
He was 18.
So I'm pretty proud of that.
One thing I didn't run foroffice from 2006 until 2020.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I think you mentioned that to me.
Yeah, you took a break.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
And I'll tell you why because it happened here in
Richmond.
Nothing about my staterepresentative race in 2006 went
very well Now who did you runagainst Tom Nollman?
Okay, and Mr Nollman is fromUnion County and he was.
He served as our staterepresentative for two, three
(06:46):
terms, but that was.
It was an open seat when we ran.
Nothing about that.
Campaign for me went very well,and especially the night that I
went to visit Wayne CountyRepublicans in Richmond, the
weather was kind of bad.
(07:07):
It was one of those days whereI just should have stayed in bed
.
I'd done better just to stay inbed, even though I was a little
frazzled.
By the time I got there I knewthat I could answer any question
on any state issue they couldthrow at me.
So the first question out ofthe gate is from an older
(07:31):
gentleman sitting in the secondrow I'll never forget this.
And he looks at me and he sayswhy do you want to run for this
job?
Such a basic question, right,right.
Nobody had ever asked me thatbefore, not even me.
That's huge, and and um Well,it's huge that you even omitted
(07:52):
just now.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Well, I've had a long time to think about it and um.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Well, I've had a long time to think about it and, um,
I wasn't prepared to answer it.
And it showed.
And at the end of the evening,I saw that he was hanging back.
He wanted to speak to meprivately and he came up to me
Gosh, I wish I could rememberthis man's name, but I'll never
(08:18):
forget his face to the moment.
And he looked at me and he saidI don't want you to be upset
about what happened here tonight.
I've already talked to somepeople and you're the guy I'm
going to vote for.
But, son, if you want to winthis race, you had better be
able to answer that questionAbsolutely.
(08:39):
And it hit me like a ton ofbricks and I've never forgotten
it.
And I didn't run for officeagain for 14 years because I
swore to myself that I wouldnever do it again unless I felt
in my heart that it wasn't aboutme.
It should never be about thecandidate, it should always be
(09:02):
about the voters.
All right, you're a servant, Iam a public servant and it is an
emphasis on that.
And in 2020, I told the peopleof Fayette County that I thought
I could be helpful.
I developed a really diversecareer.
I'd had experience inmanufacturing and tourism and
financing Grants and economicdevelopment.
(09:25):
I'd had experience at everylevel government, federal, state
, local.
I thought I could be helpfuland I think I have been, and
maybe we'll get into that herein a little while.
But I think the people ofFayette County should reelect me
because they're never going tohave to guess whose side I'm on.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Their side.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
So there's.
We've had other shows up herewith other candidates for
positions more locally, locally,Richmond, Back to why you took
your time off and everythingelse.
If they were asked why theywere running, they would have
pulled over that stack of papersand started looking about
(10:15):
infrastructure Like what thefuck?
Like?
You should know why you'rerunning.
You should have an elevatorpitch, you should have a
one-liner, two-liner, somethingto know why you're running,
Cause there had to have beensomething that caused you to run
that's not on your book ofpaper.
So kudos to you for humbling upand then, you know, making
(10:38):
yourself vulnerable and be likeokay, I should kind of take some
time and I lost that race inretrospect.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I probably should have you know and taught you a
lot it did.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
It did.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
So, you know, too too often during the last four
years I've I've kind of feltlike I've no-transcript.
I felt like the people ofFayette County's best interest
needed to be protected, and ofcourse that's what I do for a
living is try to protectpeople's best interests.
You know Absolutely.
And so, um, Congress was reallychanged.
(11:13):
I mean, when I grew up, most ofthe folks growing up were
Democrats.
Well, it's not that way anymore.
I think we have, uh, we have,one county commissioner that's a
Democrat and the countysurveyor, that's it.
The mayor, the clerk treasurer,the city council, the county
council, um, the auditor, thetreasurer, both judges, um, like
(11:43):
I said, two of the threecommissioners, they're all
Republican.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
So, to build on that, I'll ask you something, I'll
ask your opinion and then I'llshare my opinion.
Okay, On a local level, howmuch does it matter if they're
Republican or Democrat?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
It should matter very much.
I mean, and and that's reallywhere you get a lot of the
crossovers, because you know,especially in a town, towns are
size right, even, as you know,richmond's three times the size
of of Connorsville, but still,even even Richmond size, it
shouldn't matter all that much.
I mean, it has more to do withthat, has more to do with
(12:25):
national issues and and maybevalues, um, but you know, does,
when you're talking about um,whether your income tax should
be raised or not, locally right,you know, kind of just depends
(12:50):
on it's more issue related thanit is.
Um, you know what, what partyyou right, you're absolutely
right.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
So I feel the same way and you know you're here
today because Phil Quinn kind ofpulled us together and we all
love Phil and Phil is big intothis stuff.
So, um, he served on the citycouncil here for I think eight
years He'll correct me if I'mwrong, um, and he's just very
active, even not living here.
But, um, you know, he taught mea lot about this.
(13:23):
Um, about local level versusnational level.
Uh, democrat first, republicanfirst independent.
Um, on the Richmond level,watching it this year, like to
me it don't freaking matter.
Um, I've never voted like astraight ticket.
Okay, um, I can find good andbad in both parties.
(13:45):
Um, you know, um, if I was tolean, I'd probably lean a little
more to the right.
Um, but, like you said, it'skind of how you're raised.
So in Connorsville you werekind of raised in the Democratic
party yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
But just cause everyone else was everyone else
was my, my grandparents were, mymom was um, that's just what
you feel like you are.
But then when you start lookingaround a little bit and you
grow up and things change thecommunity a little and you know,
uh, connorsville's changed alot.
Oh yeah, I mean a lot uh, fromthe time I grew up.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
So when you so Ford was down there right and you
were there.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Oh yeah, I have Ford.
Uh, dnm, which was uh uh a.
It was called design andmanufacturing, and if you bought
a Kenmore dishwasher from Searsin the 1970s, it was likely
made in Connorsville um uh, whatclass?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
what class were you when you graduate, 1987?
Okay, so I got hired to takepictures of a class reunion down
there and they told me therewas like 300 people in their
senior class.
Yeah, I was like, are youserious?
(15:08):
Yeah, I didn't realize how bigit was.
Back back then.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Oh yeah, there was originally 369 students in my
class.
Wow, only about 280 graduated.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
So I've graduated from a Lynn.
Okay, there was like RandolphSouthern.
Randolph Southern, just northof here.
There was like less than 50people in my senior class.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah, actually I was at a meeting.
I was at a Kiwanis Club meetingthe other day in Connorsville
and the current schoolsuperintendent was a speaker and
he mentioned that.
You know, when I was in schoolthere were about 1700 kids that
went to Connorsville High School.
It's down under a thousand now.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Oh, wow, alright.
So let's kind of wrap this up,scott.
When is election day, may 7th,and how can they vote?
Speaker 2 (16:02):
There'll be precincts all over the community, but you
can vote early by going to thecourthouse.
There's a conference room onthe first floor that you can go
to, and we have six candidatesin this Republican primary.
So you know when you pick upthe ballot it's all Republican
candidates, right?
So that part of it reallydoesn't matter in the primary.
(16:25):
So you will have to go and pushevery button for the people
that you want and in theat-large race you can vote for
up to three of the six of us,right?
You don't have to vote forthree.
You can only vote for one ortwo or whatever you want to do.
But so that's how you handlethat.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Alright.
Well, thanks for coming on.
Life Inscripted yeah, and we'llwrap this up, thank you.
Thank you Appreciate the time.
Life Inscripted with KevinShook.
Let's see if I say this right County Council at
large for Fayette County,Indiana.
That's right Sweet.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
But one of my earliest memories as a child was
watching Richard Nixon resignfrom office, and while I didn't
understand all about Watergateand what was going on from that
point forward, I was alwaysinterested in politics.
I really had an almost anunhealthy Like an obsession
(00:32):
Obsession with it, and I neverdid quite get rid of it.
And when I was in college I hadan internship at the State
House and I walked in there thatnight to take the test to see
if I could become one and I wentoh yeah, this is what I want to
do.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Really so when you did your internship, were you
assigned to a certain politicianor I was assigned to the media
office of the Indiana DemocraticParty.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Okay, growing up in Connorsville, you have to
understand the history of ourcommunity and Franklin
Roosevelt's WPA during theDepression was very good to our
hometown.
And with the subsequent powerof labor unions after
Roosevelt's time, when you grewup when I did and you were
(01:26):
interested in politics, morelikely than not you thought of
yourself as a Democrat becauseyour kids and grandkids, your
parents and grandparents,thought of themselves that way.
But when I got to thelegislature I began looking
around, going this isn't how Ithink.
So I went to my staterepresentative who was in his
(01:48):
first term at the time.
Who was that?
His name was Steve Robbins andhe is a businessman in
Connorsville.
He was in his first term and Isaid to him he was an old family
friend.
And I said, steve, what am Igoing to do?
And Robbins gave me the bestpolitical advice I ever got.
He said you are too young todecide what you are and what you
are not.
(02:09):
Take your time, look ateverything and then decide.
And five years later, on abeautiful spring day in 1996, I
walked into the National GuardArmoury in Connorsville where my
precinct was and I asked for myfirst Republican ballot and you
should have seen the peopleworking the polls that day.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Their jaws hit the desk, so they weren't used to
that.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
No, they weren't used to me coming in and asking for
a Republican ballot.
That was a brand new thing, andI did it because I knew in my
heart that I was a ReaganRepublican and I still am.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
So when you said a Republican ballot, was that a
straight ticket?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
It was the primary.
So in Indiana during theprimary you can ask for whatever
ballot you want Democrat orRepublican and I had always
asked for a Democrat ballotbefore.
But I knew in 1996 I was aRepublican.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
So tell me about the position that you are running
for.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Okay, it is Fayette County Council and it is an at
large seat.
There are four districts andthree at large seats, so anybody
in the county can vote for upto three people when they pick
up a Republican ballot on May7th, and there are six people,
(03:30):
including myself, that arerunning for these three
positions.
I've been honored over the lastfour years to be one of those
county council positions InIndiana locally.
The city and county governmentsare a little different.
The mayor is the executive bodyof a city.
(03:52):
The city council is both thelegislative and fiscal body In
the county.
The county commissioners arethe executive body and
legislative body.
The council is only the fiscalbody.
So the only way we can affectpolicy per se is choosing not to
fund something that's beingrequested by the commissioners
(04:13):
or another county electedofficial, or reducing it at a
lower level than what's beenrequested.
We can't add something in thathasn't been requested.
That's just not legal for us todo.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Give me a rundown, give me a timeline of positions
that you've been elected to andhave held throughout your
lifetime here on our next callSam Nasser.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Well, you know I got to thinking about this on the
way over here.
I was on the committee thatraised enough money to buy our
permanent Republicanheadquarters.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Was that a county?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Fayette County.
Fayette County headquartersRepublican headquarters.
We bought the building.
I forget what year it was, butit was early on when I became
active.
So I've been on the CentralCommittee now 27 years.
I served on Congressional CityCouncil as a Republican during
the term of Mayor Morrie Connellin the early aughts.
(05:17):
I've been our county chairmantwice.
The second time I took a tookover a term that had been
vacated when the CentralCommittee unanimously asked me
to come back to finish it.
I ran for mayor in 2003 andlost in the primary.
(05:42):
I ran for state representativein 2006 and lost in the primary.
I've been a state conventiondelegate eight times from
Fayette County.
My son was actually theyoungest Fayette County delegate
in history.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Oh, wow 2016.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
He was 18.
So I'm pretty proud of that.
One thing I didn't run foroffice from 2006 until 2020.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I think you mentioned that to me.
Yeah, you took a break.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
And I'll tell you why because it happened here in
Richmond.
Nothing about my staterepresentative race in 2006 went
very well Now who did you runagainst Tom Nollman?
Okay, and Mr Nollman is fromUnion County and he was.
He served as our staterepresentative for two, three
(06:46):
terms, but that was.
It was an open seat when we ran.
Nothing about that.
Campaign for me went very well,and especially the night that I
went to visit Wayne CountyRepublicans in Richmond, the
weather was kind of bad.
(07:07):
It was one of those days whereI just should have stayed in bed
.
I'd done better just to stay inbed, even though I was a little
frazzled.
By the time I got there I knewthat I could answer any question
on any state issue they couldthrow at me.
So the first question out ofthe gate is from an older
(07:31):
gentleman sitting in the secondrow I'll never forget this.
And he looks at me and he sayswhy do you want to run for this
job?
Such a basic question, right,right.
Nobody had ever asked me thatbefore, not even me.
That's huge, and and um Well,it's huge that you even omitted
(07:52):
just now.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Well, I've had a long time to think about it and um.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Well, I've had a long time to think about it and, um,
I wasn't prepared to answer it.
And it showed.
And at the end of the evening,I saw that he was hanging back.
He wanted to speak to meprivately and he came up to me
Gosh, I wish I could rememberthis man's name, but I'll never
(08:18):
forget his face to the moment.
And he looked at me and he saidI don't want you to be upset
about what happened here tonight.
I've already talked to somepeople and you're the guy I'm
going to vote for.
But, son, if you want to winthis race, you had better be
able to answer that questionAbsolutely.
(08:39):
And it hit me like a ton ofbricks and I've never forgotten
it.
And I didn't run for officeagain for 14 years because I
swore to myself that I wouldnever do it again unless I felt
in my heart that it wasn't aboutme.
It should never be about thecandidate, it should always be
(09:02):
about the voters.
All right, you're a servant, Iam a public servant and it is an
emphasis on that.
And in 2020, I told the peopleof Fayette County that I thought
I could be helpful.
I developed a really diversecareer.
I'd had experience inmanufacturing and tourism and
financing Grants and economicdevelopment.
(09:25):
I'd had experience at everylevel government, federal, state
, local.
I thought I could be helpfuland I think I have been, and
maybe we'll get into that herein a little while.
But I think the people ofFayette County should reelect me
because they're never going tohave to guess whose side I'm on.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Their side.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
So there's.
We've had other shows up herewith other candidates for
positions more locally, locally,Richmond, Back to why you took
your time off and everythingelse.
If they were asked why theywere running, they would have
pulled over that stack of papersand started looking about
(10:15):
infrastructure Like what thefuck?
Like?
You should know why you'rerunning.
You should have an elevatorpitch, you should have a
one-liner, two-liner, somethingto know why you're running,
Cause there had to have beensomething that caused you to run
that's not on your book ofpaper.
So kudos to you for humbling upand then, you know, making
(10:38):
yourself vulnerable and be likeokay, I should kind of take some
time and I lost that race inretrospect.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I probably should have you know and taught you a
lot it did.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
It did.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
So, you know, too too often during the last four
years I've I've kind of feltlike I've no-transcript.
I felt like the people ofFayette County's best interest
needed to be protected, and ofcourse that's what I do for a
living is try to protectpeople's best interests.
You know Absolutely.
And so, um, Congress was reallychanged.
(11:13):
I mean, when I grew up, most ofthe folks growing up were
Democrats.
Well, it's not that way anymore.
I think we have, uh, we have,one county commissioner that's a
Democrat and the countysurveyor, that's it.
The mayor, the clerk treasurer,the city council, the county
council, um, the auditor, thetreasurer, both judges, um, like
(11:43):
I said, two of the threecommissioners, they're all
Republican.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
So, to build on that, I'll ask you something, I'll
ask your opinion and then I'llshare my opinion.
Okay, On a local level, howmuch does it matter if they're
Republican or Democrat?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
It should matter very much.
I mean, and and that's reallywhere you get a lot of the
crossovers, because you know,especially in a town, towns are
size right, even, as you know,richmond's three times the size
of of Connorsville, but still,even even Richmond size, it
shouldn't matter all that much.
I mean, it has more to do withthat, has more to do with
(12:25):
national issues and and maybevalues, um, but you know, does,
when you're talking about um,whether your income tax should
be raised or not, locally right,you know, kind of just depends
(12:50):
on it's more issue related thanit is.
Um, you know what, what partyyou right, you're absolutely
right.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
So I feel the same way and you know you're here
today because Phil Quinn kind ofpulled us together and we all
love Phil and Phil is big intothis stuff.
So, um, he served on the citycouncil here for I think eight
years He'll correct me if I'mwrong, um, and he's just very
active, even not living here.
But, um, you know, he taught mea lot about this.
(13:23):
Um, about local level versusnational level.
Uh, democrat first, republicanfirst independent.
Um, on the Richmond level,watching it this year, like to
me it don't freaking matter.
Um, I've never voted like astraight ticket.
Okay, um, I can find good andbad in both parties.
(13:45):
Um, you know, um, if I was tolean, I'd probably lean a little
more to the right.
Um, but, like you said, it'skind of how you're raised.
So in Connorsville you werekind of raised in the Democratic
party yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
But just cause everyone else was everyone else
was my, my grandparents were, mymom was um, that's just what
you feel like you are.
But then when you start lookingaround a little bit and you
grow up and things change thecommunity a little and you know,
uh, connorsville's changed alot.
Oh yeah, I mean a lot uh, fromthe time I grew up.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
So when you so Ford was down there right and you
were there.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Oh yeah, I have Ford.
Uh, dnm, which was uh uh a.
It was called design andmanufacturing, and if you bought
a Kenmore dishwasher from Searsin the 1970s, it was likely
made in Connorsville um uh, whatclass?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
what class were you when you graduate, 1987?
Okay, so I got hired to takepictures of a class reunion down
there and they told me therewas like 300 people in their
senior class.
Yeah, I was like, are youserious?
(15:08):
Yeah, I didn't realize how bigit was.
Back back then.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Oh yeah, there was originally 369 students in my
class.
Wow, only about 280 graduated.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
So I've graduated from a Lynn.
Okay, there was like RandolphSouthern.
Randolph Southern, just northof here.
There was like less than 50people in my senior class.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah, actually I was at a meeting.
I was at a Kiwanis Club meetingthe other day in Connorsville
and the current schoolsuperintendent was a speaker and
he mentioned that.
You know, when I was in schoolthere were about 1700 kids that
went to Connorsville High School.
It's down under a thousand now.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Oh, wow, alright.
So let's kind of wrap this up,scott.
When is election day, may 7th,and how can they vote?
Speaker 2 (16:02):
There'll be precincts all over the community, but you
can vote early by going to thecourthouse.
There's a conference room onthe first floor that you can go
to, and we have six candidatesin this Republican primary.
So you know when you pick upthe ballot it's all Republican
candidates, right?
So that part of it reallydoesn't matter in the primary.
(16:25):
So you will have to go and pushevery button for the people
that you want and in theat-large race you can vote for
up to three of the six of us,right?
You don't have to vote forthree.
You can only vote for one ortwo or whatever you want to do.
But so that's how you handlethat.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Alright.
Well, thanks for coming on.
Life Inscripted yeah, and we'llwrap this up, thank you.
Thank you Appreciate the time.
Life Inscripted with KevinShook.
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