Five candidates vie for two supervisor seats

    Wednesday was the last day to register to run for an elected office in Washington County for the 2010 election. The county treasurer, recorder and attorney are all up for re-election, as are two of the five supervisor positions.

    Republican Steve Davis represents District 3 on the County Board of Supervisors and is running for re-election. District 3 runs along the east side of the county and contains Crawfordsville, Ainsworth and Riverside. Davis is from Crawfordsville. He will face two Republican challengers in the primary race, John Hahn and Bill Walker, both from Wayland. Democrat Rodney Stogdill, also from Wayland, will contest Davis? seat in the general election.  

    Jim Rosien, a Republican from Washington, is up for re-election in District 5. District 5 includes the southern half of the city of Washington and the southern halves of Franklin and Washington townships. Rosien will face opposition within his own party from Ron Bennett of Washington. Democrat Linda Brown is also running to capture the District 5 seat.

    The five supervisors were all elected to their terms in 2008. Before then, there were only three supervisors on the board and they were all at-large seats, meaning they did not represent a specific portion of the county. At the November 2006 elections, county residents passed a ballot measure that increased the number of supervisors from three to five. A referendum was held in July 2007 to decide how the five supervisors should be elected. The option that won was that each supervisor would represent a district, would have to live in that district and could only be elected by residents who lived in that same district.

For more, see our April 2 print edition.