In a post three days ago I wrote about the state-court solicitor post that’s on the ballot this year:
Coweta County’s State Court Solicitor, Robert Stokely, finally has a challenger—and if this had happened four years ago that would have been enough to make the decision for me. However Stokely’s response to personal tragedy after his son’s death in Iraq, has made me reassess my opinion of him—which was itself character-related anyway. On balance I have more reason to support Stokely than not, but in fairness to his challenger Randy Coggin I’ll wait until I know more about him before deciding for sure.»
Local Candidates
Tuesday’s Times-Herald covers the two candidates each in separate articles (Coggin, Stokely), and having read both I’ll be voting for Stokely in the upcoming Republican primary.
Coggin seems to be a dedicated and capable prosecutor—he works for the District Attorney serving Coweta and several neighboring counties—and had he run for this office in 2004 on many of the issues he’s raising I would certainly have supported him. The thing is, he could have run on a lot of these issues four years ago. Now, not so much.
And now that I’m able—unlike four years ago—to consider Stokely with an open mind, I think he deserves to be re-elected.
