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Recount to occur in Spotsylvania Circuit Court clerk's race Date published: 11/16/2007
By DAN TELVOCK Spotsylvania County is preparing for the first-ever recount in a local election. Spotsylvania Circuit Court Clerk Paul Metzger, who lost his re-election bid on Nov. 6, filed a petition for a recount Wednesday. The race was decided by 63 votes. Metzger, who has served one term as clerk, lost to Christy Jett, who is currently the clerk of Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court. Jett won 7,420 votes to Metzger's 7,357 votes. "The reason I filed for a recount is because I think since the difference was so slight, 60-odd votes, that I really owe it to the people who were kind enough to support me to resolve this one way or another," Metzger said yesterday. Jett declined to comment. Metzger is entitled to a recount paid for by Spotsylvania County taxpayers because the difference in votes cast for the two candidates was less than .50 percent. The difference between Metzger and Jett was .43 percent. A hearing date has not been scheduled. Dan Telvock: 540/374-5438Email: dtelvock@freelancestar.com
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that possibly Spotsylvania is the Clerk or someone who works in his office who thinks they may lose their job? I previously worked in a law office and I totally agree that the previous Clerk was totally incompetent. But just because Mr. Metzger did a good job doesn't mean it is his job to death. Maybe Christy will have new ideas and plans to make the office even better. No, I don't have any desire to go back to law; it wore me down.
Here it is 1+1=2 Ok Christy still wins. Without spending a dime of taxpayer money.
While I do agree that Mr. Metzger is entitled to a recount, I feel that it should be coming out of his pockets and not ours. However, spotsylvania makes an excellent point, instead of just complaining about it in this forum, if we feel the law needs to change we should petition to have this law modified/changed. Also, I would like to know how much this costs? Any idea out there.
Before Paul Metzger’s term, the Clerk’s office was an unmitigated disaster. It was months behind on civil and criminal cases, land recordings and other responsibilities. Records were in boxes and virtually nothing done to computerize. Professionals considered it the worst in the state. In fact, the state was about to take it over. In his one term, Paul completely turned things around. The office now uses state-of-the-art technology, is efficient, responsive and timely. It is a show case operation.
If people were to vote for what the person stands for and their moral charactor instead of their Political Party then there may not have been a need for this recount. Really, does a R or D have a place in county ofice seats? I think not.
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