While residents of the 5th Magisterial District still await representation on the Clinton County Fiscal Court, so to will Democrats in that and the 3rd District await to see who their party’s actual nominees will be in November to fill out the unexpired terms in those districts.

A meeting that was scheduled this past Tuesday, June 19 of the Clinton County Democrat County Committee was postponed “until further notice” last Friday, June 15.

Earlier last week, Clinton County Democrat Party Chairman David McWhorter had announced a meeting of the party’s county committee to be held at the Community Center Tuesday of this week. The purpose of that meeting was to nominate candidates for the unexpired terms for the fiscal court members in districts three and five.

The notice stated that “only Democrat County Committee members are eligible to vote on the nominees.”

As of press time Tuesday, the Democrat County Committee meeting had not been rescheduled.

The Republican County Committee selected their party’s nominees at a full meeting on June 4.

The winners from among the Democrat and Republican nominees will take office the first of next year and serve out the remaining two years left on the terms of former Magistrates Willard Johnson (3rd District of Snow, Seventy-Six and Piney Woods precincts) and Charlotte Bernard (5th District of Speck and Illwill precincts.)

Johnson resigned in early April and Larry Hatfield was appointed by Governor Steve Beshear to serve until after the November general election in the 3rd District. However, no appointment of replacement has been named as of yet to serve in Bernard’s 5th District for the remainder of the year.