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signatures to get on November's ballot suggesting that “a vote for me was a vote for someone else in the county I won't name.”
“I'm not bitter about anything,” said Hitchen, “but it was a premature run.”
“This past election was bad enough,” he said referring to the elections last year, “and we just don't need that in our county.”
Hitchen said he would like to run for office in the future, but after he's had a bit more time for people to get to know him.
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