Haynes Downs Fairbanks in Assessor's Race

Marty Haynes will be returning for a second term as Hamilton County Assessor of Property.

Haynes, who was challenged by Hamilton County Commissioner Randy Fairbanks in the Republican Primary, received 13,885 votes to Fairbanks’ 10,718.

No one qualified for the office in the Democratic Primary, therefore Haynes will have no opposition in November’s general election.

Joe Biden was the choice among Hamilton County voters in the Democratic Presidential Primary. Biden garnered 16,286 votes, while Bernie Sanders received 9,423. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was a distant third with 5,554 votes.

Biden outpaced Sanders and Bloomberg statewide as well.

President Donald Trump who has token opposition in the Republican Primary, had 23,655 votes in Hamilton County.

Of the 214,837 registered voters in the county, 62,475 participated in the election.

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.