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Coppinger faces Ford for Hamilton County’s top post

By Louie Brogdon 4 min read

photo Richard Ford
photo Jim Coppinger

IMPORTANT DATES* July 8: Last day to register to vote* July 31: Last day to request an absentee ballot* July 18-Aug. 2: Early voting* Aug. 7: State primary and county general election

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one in a series of stories about contested races in the August county general election.

Hamilton County Mayor Jim Coppinger has not been spared this election season. He was challenged in the Republican primary – and he faces an independent candidate on Aug. 7.

But the campaign hasn’t exactly been a political thriller.

Coppinger was challenged by perennial candidate and one-time Internet sensation Basil Marceaux in the May primary. Coppinger took 91 percent of the vote.