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The Reporter covers Miller, Morgan and Camden County in Central Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks and is published once per week on Wednesdays.

Published August 13, 2014

Primary 2014: Hasty, Gilley, farmers win, MoDOT loses

By Jeff Thompson
LAKE OF THE OZARKS - Election results from last Tuesday’s primary decided a hotly contested race for Camden County Presiding Commissioner as well as Camden County Prosecuting Attorney.

Challenger Greg Hasty beat incumbent Kris Franken for the Presiding Commissioner spot with a vote of 4,421 to Franken’s total of 3,105.

Hasty’s campaign outspent Franken by thousands of dollars, donated mainly from Lake of the Ozarks Properties, Inc. in Claremont, California.

There was no Democrat running in that particular primary election, although Hasty could still face an official “Write-In” challenger in November’s general election (any candidate could face the same predicament in November, especially those that ran unopposed.)

In addition, incumbent Brian Keedy lost the Camden County Prosecuting Attorney slot to Michael Gilley with Keedy’s 1,456 votes falling short of the 3,676 garnered by Gilley.

A third candidate - Cole Bradbury - racked up 2,300 votes.

One of the more divisive constitutional amendments was Constitutional Amendment 7.

The amendment called for a 10-year three-quarter-cent sales tax to benefit the Missouri Department of Transportation; it didn’t fare very well in the lake area with all three counties coming out against the measure

According to Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander, voter participation was highest statewide in the contest over Constitutional Amendment 7, which failed statewide.

The only constitutional amendment that split the lake area counties’ vote was Constitutional Amendment 8 - the so-called Veterans’ Lottery measure - with both Morgan and Miller County voters coming out in favor of the proposed lottery while Camden County voted against it.

The unofficial Missouri voter turnout tally in Tuesday’s primary election was 24.58 percent, According to Kander.

“Approximately 998,495 of Missouri’s 4,061,820 registered voters turned out to vote on constitutional amendments and nominate party candidates,” Kander stated. “Every election has important issues at stake, and this one was no different. I applaud all the Missourians who made it to the polls to participate in our democracy and make their voice heard.”

Lake area voters rang up the following tallies:

CAMDEN COUNTY
* Presiding Commissioner
Greg Hasty, 4421
Kris Franken, 3105
* Prosecuting Attorney
Michael Gilley, 3676
Cole Bradbury, 2300
Brian Keedy, 1456
* Proposition 1 (Stoutland School District)
Yes, 128
No, 195
* Ki-He-Ka Township Committeewoman:
Lisa D. (Snelling) Simpson
* Jasper Township Committeewoman:
Nancy Osborne
Unopposed: Associate Circuit Judge Division 3, Aaron Koeppen; Associate Circuit Judge Division 4, Matt Hamner; County Clerk, Rowland Todd, County Auditor, Ronnie Capps; Circuit Clerk, Jo McElwee; County Collector, Vicky Burns; and County Recorder, Donnie Snelling.

MORGAN COUNTY
* Presiding Commissioner
Republican J. Bryant, 2676; Democrat J. Vaughn, 530
* Circuit Clerk
Republican L. Moon, 1586; Democrat B. Arment, 520
* County Clerk
Republican J. Crabtree, 2515; Democrat C. Daniels, 605;
* County Treasurer
Republican K. Ingersoll, 1684; Democrat M. Vansell, 515
* Associate Circuit Judge Kevin Schehr
* Special School Levy Election St. Elizabeth School District
Yes, 269
No, 160
Unopposed: Recorder of Deed Nancy Boles, County Collector Kathy Francis and Prosecuting Attorney D. Dunklee (all incumbents)
MILLER COUNTY
* Associate Circuit Judge
Jon A. Kaltenbronn, 2658
Gerard “Jay” Harms Jr., 1542
* County Clerk
Caleb Rowden, 1802
Clinton Andrew Jenkins, 2381
* County Treasurer
Phil Lawson, 2999
Randy Russell, 1048
* Prosecuting Attorney
Benjamin (Ben) Winfrey, 2648
Matthew F. Howard, 1555
Unopposed: Presiding County Commissioner Tom Wright, Recorder of Deeds Debbie Wiles and Collector of Revenue William E. (Bill) Harvey.

STATEWIDE TOTALS
Winners
State Auditor: Republican Tom Schweich, Libertarian Sean O'Toole, Constitution Rodney Farthing
U.S. Representative - District 3: Republican Blaine Luetkemeyer, Democrat Courtney Denton, Libertarian Steven Hedrick
U.S. Representative - District 4: Republican Vicky Hartzler, Democrat Nate Irvin, Libertarian Herschel L. Young
State Senator - District 6: Republican Mike Kehoe, Democrat Mollie Kristen Freebairn
State Senator - District 16: Dan Brown
State Representative - District 58: David Wood (unopposed)
State Representative - District 59: Republican Mike Bernskoetter, Constitution Michael Eberle
State Representative - District 62: Tom Hurst
State Representative - District 123: Diane Franklin (unopposed)
State Representative - District 124: Rocky Miller (unopposed)
Constitutional Amendment 1 Right To Farm, YES 498,751; NO 496,223 (Morgan Yes, Miller Yes, Camden Yes)
Constitutional Amendment 5 Right To Bear Arms, YES 602,076; NO 385,422 (Morgan County Yes, Miller County Yes, Camden County Yes)
Constitutional Amendment 7 MoDOT Sales Tax, YES 407,532; NO 590,963 (Morgan County No, Miller County No, Camden County No)
Constitutional Amendment 8 Veterans Lottery, YES 440,369; NO 538,575 (Morgan County Yes, Miller County Yes, Camden County No)
Constitutional Amendment 9 Electronic Data Protection, YES 728,549; NO 246,020 (Morgan County Yes, Miller County Yes, Camden County Yes)