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You are here: Home / Opinion / Jetton Backs Johnston in Register’s Race

Jetton Backs Johnston in Register’s Race

April 27, 2018 By Dick Cook and Contributed Article Leave a Comment

Who do we vote for in Register of Deeds race?

This is opponent record

Multiple campaign donations from controversial Exit One developers. (public info: campaign finance disclosure).

Accepted out of state PAC campaign donations AFTER he announced he was running for local office. (public info: campaign finance disclosure).

Transferred large state office campaign coffer to fund his local race. Funds included corporate and utility PAC donations. (public info: campaign finance disclosure).

Accepted PAC money from industry he vowed to remove from East Ridge. (public info: campaign finance disclosure / Chattanoogan.com article).

Does not have a history of paying local property taxes. (public info: Hamilton County Trustee website).

Vote Randy Johnston 33 years of public service! Experience and Leadership that counts!

_ Sterling Jetton

Filed Under: Opinion

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.

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