Three council members plan November runs
Two Clinton City Council members recently announced their candidacy, and a third has also indicated a run for re-election.
The announcements from Council Member Wendy Maness, Ward 3 and Council Member David Queener, Ward 1, came at the Feb. 23 Clinton City Council meeting, but the election isn’t until November, unlike the earlier one for the Anderson County Commission.
Councilman Brian Hatmaker is the third one, but has not made an official announcement yet.
Maness announced her candidacy first.
“I just want to say I am glad to have served the community here in Clinton, and I feel like I’ve worked very hard,” she said. “And I hope that shows, and I plan to run for South Clinton again in Ward 3. And I thank you for trusting me.”
Queener said he felt he had done more for the city while on the Board of Education than on the City Council, specifically in hiring Kelly Johnson, whom he called “the best superintendent in the state of Tennessee.”
Still, he said he was ready to serve a second term of four more years on the council. He said he would not seek a third term.
“If you can’t get it done in eight, go home, and that’s what I intend on doing.”
Mayor Scott Burton added that he had heard from Hatmaker, who was sick at that meeting, that he intended to run again in Ward 2.
Burton made his own announcement at a previous meeting.
“The purpose is always the same,” he said. “It’s make Clinton as great as it can be.
“I think I speak for everybody. If we weren’t doing a good job, we wouldn’t be running again. I think we’re doing a fantastic job and we’d just like to continue to do that.
Hatmaker, despite being a candidate, said he would like to have an ordinance limiting signs to 45 days out from an election. However Tennessee law prevents such local ordinances.
