Three Commissioners serve as both the legislature (they pass ordinances) and the executive (they implement the ordinances) of Carbon County. In the primary each party nominates two candidates for that office. In the fall all four of those candidates are on the ballot, but only the top three are elected. This insures that at least one Democrat or one Republican will always be elected as a Commissioner.
The Dems had three candidates–Rocky Ahner, Bob Jacobs, and Shawn Kresge. I know all three. I believe each of them is competent, intelligent, and would be good for the county. None of them are incumbents.
The Reeps had five candidates. Two of them, Wayne Nothstein and Tom Gerhard, are incumbents. I like them both. The others include Jason Frey, a township supervisor in Franklin Township, and Tom Boyko, a beer distributor who ran before as a Democrat.
The fifth Republican candidate is a former Army or Marine guy (in his ads he is always in uniform and makes a big deal out of his service but I don’t know uniforms) named Lukasevich, who has signs everywhere in the county, has run ads in our local movie theater, sponsored at least two electronic billboards, bought lots of ad space on television, and ran full-page ads in the local newspaper. If money wins elections, and I think it often does, Lukesevich should be the top Republican vote getter. My problem at this point is I’m not sure if he is running for Commissioner or for Secretary of Defense.
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