Walker County commissioner running for reelection Bebe Heiskell smiles as her supporters celebrate a gain in the election Tuesday night at her campaign headquarters in Rock Spring, Ga. Heiskell won the election, defeating write-in candidate Ales Campbell, and remains the sole commissioner in Walker County.Incumbent Walker County, Ga., Sole Commissioner Bebe Heiskell received more than twice as many votes as her write-in challenger Ales Campbell in Tuesday’s election.
The unofficial tally showed 13,380 votes for Heiskell, a Republican. County Election Supervisor Barbara Berry said 5,851 write-in votes were cast. It was unclear how many of those were cast for Campbell.
“I’m very pleased. I thank all the voters who voted for me, and I’ll do my very best to support them for the next four years,” Heiskell said.
Heiskell, 73, will serve her fourth term in what a recent front-page Wall Street Journal article called “one of the rarest political jobs in the U.S.” The article focused on Campbell’s campaign pledge to seek to give voters a chance to swap out the county’s sole commissioner form of government for a five-member commission.
“That many people voted for me as a write-in candidate,” Campbell said. “I believe that we have started something, and I will continue to work toward it. I’m not going anywhere.”