Five Points mayor Jeff Monroe received the most votes in Tuesday’s primary and will face John Jacobs in the June 16 runoff.
The neck-and-neck-and-neck results in Randolph County in the three-way race for the State House District 37 Republican nomination did not play out the same way in Lee and Chambers County, and in the end Wadley Mayor Donna McKay was the odd one out.
Jacobs finished in a close second with 2,766 votes, with McKay grabbing 2,149 votes.
Randolph County voters were much more evenly split in that race as a total of 30 votes separated the three candidates.
Jeff Monroe – 1,413 votes
Donna McKay – 1,391 votes
John Jacobs – 1,383 votes
The overall results mean that Jacobs and Monroe will meet one more time in the June 16 runoff. The results of that election will determine the Republican nominee for the seat. The winner will face Democrat Michelle French in the general election in November.
All of the candidates are vying to replace Bob Fincher, who did not seek re-election after his third term in office.
McKay posted the following heartfelt statement in a Facebook post Tuesday night congratulating Monroe and Jacobs:
Dear State House District 37 Voters,
I want to congratulate Jeff Monroe and John Jacobs as they have captured the votes needed to qualify them for the primary run-off. They have been wonderful, worthy opponents to me. They are my friends, and I thank them.
My campaign was good to me. I enjoyed it, and I especially enjoyed meeting and speaking with the people about their lives and their communities.
Thank you to all who supported me in this effort. I truly love and appreciate you. If I can ever be of help to any of you, please let me know.
I love America; I love Alabama, and I love democracy. Democracy gives us the freedom to run for office and to vote. I was taught to vote— to vote my voice. If you do not vote, you do not have a voice. Teach this to your children.
We need to stand strong to the truths and ideals America was founded upon. We should never forget the sacrifices made by so many throughout these 250 years so that we all can have freedom from tyranny and oppression.
God bless you all; God bless our great state of Alabama, and God bless our great nation.
I love you and I thank you— sincerely.
Donna
