Haynes to be County's Next Assessor of Property

Republican Marty Haynes will become Hamilton County’s next Assessor of Property.

Haynes received 16,104 votes to Democrat Mark Siedlecki’s 12,158.

In the state primaries, incumbent Congressman Chuck Fleischman easily outdistanced his challengers in the Republican Primary for U.S. House of Representatives in the 3rd District. In Hamilton County, Fleischman received 13,392 votes, while Allan Levene tallied 1,512 votes and Geoffery Smith received 1,023 votes.

Melody Shekari won the Democratic Primary with 5,234 votes. She will face Fleischman in the November General Election.

Marc Gravitt got 2,736 votes running unopposed in the District 30 Tennessee House of Representatives Republican Primary. He will face Katie Cowley, who ran unopposed in the Democratic Primary.

Todd Gardenhire, who had no opposition in the Republican Primary to keep his District 10 Senate seat in the Tennessee General Assembly, will face Democrat Khristy Wilkinson in the General Election. Wilkinson got 2,499 votes, holding off Nick Wilkinson who received 2,058 votes. Ty O’Grady received 1,260 votes.

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.