Fourteen candidates set their sights on five Augusta Commission seats during last week’s qualifying for May 20 elections.
Only District 8 Commissioner Wayne Guilfoyle escaped opposition. The elections in districts 2 and 10 garnered two candidates each, while the District 4 race drew four candidates.
The District 6 race to replace two-term Commissioner Joe Jackson, who is term-limited, attracted five candidates, including a former Republican Party official from the Alleluia Community, Bob Finnegan, and newspaper publisher and activist Ben Hasan.
Also signing up to run in the “swing” district, where blacks and whites are almost evenly distributed, were pastor and radio personality Angela Harden and longtime county government employee Roger Garvin.
If no candidate in a race garners more than 50 percent of votes May 20, a runoff will be held July 22.
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