{"id":14334,"date":"2015-10-27T22:20:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T02:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=14334"},"modified":"2015-10-27T22:20:16","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T02:20:16","slug":"endorsement-mark-scarce-for-clerk-of-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/27\/endorsement-mark-scarce-for-clerk-of-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Endorsement: Mark Scarce for Clerk of Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

Voters don’t usually pay much attention to elections for Clerk of Court in Virginia and that’s the wrong attitude to have. The elected term for Clerk of Court is eight years, so that means voters will be “hiring” somebody and end up paying them over $1,000,000 in salary & benefits. It’s a very important decision to make.<\/p>\n

SouthsideCentral believes that Mark Scarce is the best candidate for this job.<\/p>\n

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H.F. Haymore, the current Clerk of Court for Pittsylvania County, is retiring after winning four eight-year terms. There are two candidates in this year’s election… Mark Scarce is currently a special agent with the Virginia State Police and R.J. Weaver is a loan officer with Virginia Bank & Trust.<\/p>\n

Neither candidate has any work experience in the Clerk of Court’s office. Both candidates claim that their current work experience would lead them to success in the clerk’s job and I agree with both of them on that point. Scarce’s experience with the criminal side of court matters will help him more than Weaver’s familiarity with required amounts of filings would help him. That’s a slight advantage for Scarce. Since the Clerk’s job is mainly oversee the actions of the deputy clerks in the office, there will be a lot of on-the-job learning done by whoever wins this election. The Clerk’s office is also a mostly procedural based one, so the candidates are again equal on this.<\/p>\n

I’ve talked with Scarce at community events and have done a TV interview with him. Weaver and his campaign made no outreach to SouthsideCentral at all and never responded back to an offer for his own TV interview. I have to give a slight advantage to Scarce for that.<\/p>\n

In a race like this with two closely matched candidates, one thing can end up making a big difference. That’s the case here. Current clerk H.F. Haymore has endorsed Scarce, citing that Scarce asked all of the existing deputy clerks if they were going to run for the office and saying he would defer to them. That statement about Scarce’s character along with Haymore’s endorsement with 32 years of job experience is enough to tip the balance significantly for me.<\/p>\n

SouthsideCentral gives our strong endorsement to Mark Scarce for Pittsylvania County Clerk of Court and we urge Pittsylvania County residents to vote for him on Tuesday, November 3rd.<\/p>\n

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Voters don’t usually pay much attention to elections for Clerk of Court in Virginia and that’s the wrong attitude to have. The elected term for Clerk of Court is eight years, so that means voters will be “hiring” somebody and end up paying them over $1,000,000 in salary & benefits. 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