TRACY CITY, Tenn. - A dead man has been elected mayor of Tracy City,
Tenn.
Carl Robin Geary died suddenly a few weeks ago. But he received 268
votes anyway in Tuesday's nonpartisan election, beating out incumbent Barbara
Brock with 85 votes in the two-candidate race.
An election administrator, Donna Basham, said Wednesday she wouldn't
speculate on why Geary won posthumously but noted his death had been widely
reported at the time in this corner of southeastern Tennessee.
She says the city council will now have to appoint a mayor to the four-year
term.
Brock had been appointed mayor 16 months ago when the previous mayor died.
She says she thought she had done a good job but added voters wanted a return to
the past.
I love stories like this one. It just makes me giggle. There are a few times in recent memory where dead men, and even a Ficus tree have won elections. God bless america.
