West Supports Williams in Mayor's Race

I have known Brian Williams since childhood and grew up with him throughout high school and we remain friends today.

I unequivocally support Brian for Mayor of East Ridge, TN. Brian will bring East Ridge balanced leadership, transparency in government, experience and will ensure East Ridge is the forefront of community and state growth.

Brian brings not only community government experience as a council member where he spearheaded many initiatives but also brings worldly corporate experience, management and leadership needed to support a thoughtful and balanced approach to community government.

Brian will work tirelessly across all areas of government and community to support, represent, and work for and alongside East Ridge’s greatest asset – the people!

Trust Brian Williams as the next Mayor of East Ridge.

_ R.D. West

12th Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) United States Navy (Retired)

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.

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