After losing a tie-breaker vote following November’s Argos Town Council race, Charles Snead will soon be seated on the council after all. In November’s General Election, Snead and incumbent Dustin Johnson both received the same number of votes. That left it up to the other sitting members of the council to make a decision, and they went with Johnson, the incumbent Democrat.
However, things didn’t stay settled for long, according to Marshall County Republican Party Vice Chair Debbie VanDeMark. “Town Councilperson Craig Ellis resigned because he moved out of the town limits, which left a vacancy,” she says. That gave Snead another opportunity to file for a seat on the council.
VanDeMark says he was the only person to declare his candidacy before the deadline. She says he was formally chosen by the Republican Party during a caucus Tuesday, “Because he was the only person that filed and he was supported by the party chairman and he was Republican – the position was filled with a Republican, so it needed to be re-filled with a Republican – he replaced Mr. Ellis until the end of his term.”
Ellis had just been elected to his first term on the council during November’s election.
