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Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Matt Petkey WRITTEN Vfc Chester Gap’s James Wilfiams launched a last-minute campaign far the Wakefield District school board seat He won 15 percent of the vote.
Write-in candidate takes
15 percent of vote
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
In an Election Day surprise, Wakefield District mnimhent Rosa Crocker picked up only 80 percent of the votes in her uncontested re-election run for Rappahannock County School Board.
Write-in candidates took 20 percent, with most of those going to James Williams of Chester Gap. Williams decided the night before the Nov. 6 eiec_tjon to launch a write-in campaign for the school board seat, and he went home with 75 votes^' Or 15 percent of the 498 cast. ■ '
Williams had been debating a run since the summer, and last-minute urgings from friends convinced him to throw his hat in the ring; he said.
“I had several people call me and say they would agree to work if I just had my name out there,” he said.
The morning of the election, Williams staked out a space at the Flint Hill polls and grabbed the ears of voters on their way to the booths. He set up supporters at the Chester Gap polls to do the same.
Getting his name out to voters at Flint Hill was more difficult than at the Chester Gap facilities, he said. Campaigning is prohibited within a certain distance of the polls, and at Flint? Hill, the parking lot for the polls was within the area that he was restricted from.
Even with the difficulties at the polls and the haphazard nature of kin campaign, Williams racked up a significant portion of the vote, something that he thinks indicates a level of dissatisfaction with the current school board.
60.8%