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Sopchoppygate: The final chapter
A week after Election Day, Sopchoppygate is over.
Longtime Wakulla County Sheriff David F. Harvey prevailed over challenger Charlie Creel in a recount that stopped and started and finally came to a rest early this morning. Harvey won by an apparent 48 votes, though questions remained, not the least of which is a two ballot discrepancy from a recount in a heated county commission race.
Even so, Creel conceded about 9 a.m. "We now know that almost half of our county is looking for a change in the way business has been conducted in the sheriff's department," he said in a statement read on the courthouse steps. "We all have different backgrounds, faiths, jobs and issues, but we have one thing in common and we all care deeply for Wakulla County."
Lynn Artz won the County Commission District 5 race, tipping the balance of the board to a faction led by some relative newcomers (and "newcomers" in the lexicon of Wakulla County can mean anyone not born here) who advanced a message of change.
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