UPDATED: Lambert Picks up Papers for Commission

UPDATE: According to the Hamilton County Election Commission, East Ridge Mayor Brent Lambert turned in his petitions on Tuesday, Feb. 13, qualifying as a candidate in the Republican Primary for County Commission District 8.

East Ridge Mayor Brent Lambert picked up qualifying papers from the Hamilton County Election Commission, to run for District 8 County Commissioner, Thursday afternoon.

Lambert, a two-term mayor of East Ridge, will be facing off against two-term incumbent Tim Boyd in the May 1 Republican Primary. Boyd launched his bid for a third term last week with a “Campaign Kickoff” at a venue on Ringgold Road.

Lambert was first elected to the East Ridge City Council in 2008. After two years of a four-year-term, he ran for and was elected mayor.

Lambert attempted to unseat Boyd in the 2014 Republican Primary but came in a distant third behind Boyd and former Commissioner Curtis Adams. After the political setback he ran successfully for a third term as mayor, defeating former Councilman Jim Bethune and political activist Frances Pope.

Lambert is the Chief Operating Officer of The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum.

The qualifying deadline for county primary elections is Feb. 15.

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.