Voters Make Tyler City's Newest Councilman

Williams Gets Second Term as Mayor; Cagle Gets Third Term

On Tuesday, voters made David Tyler its newest councilman. However, it was a very close call.

Tyler, a small businessman and active civic leader, edged Jeff Ezell by a margin of 44 votes. In the end, Tyler garnered 2,165 votes to Ezell’s 2,121.

Jacky Cagle, who worked for the city for more than three decades before launching a political career, was the top vote getter in the City Council race claiming 2,623 votes. He will return to office for the third time.

Robert Gilreath, a retired contractor, received 1,073 votes.

The voters gave Brian Williams a second term as Mayor. Williams received 3,655 votes, while write-in candidate Dick Cook received 776 votes.

Municipal Court Clerk Patricia Cassidy ran unopposed and will serve a third term.

Esther Helton, who serves on the city council, ran unopposed for State Representative in District 30.

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.