While I agree that no one should hold two elected offices, just a couple of months ago, you will remember, when councilman Eddie Simpson was running against me for a county commission seat, it was perfectly fine that Simpson was going to hold both offices if he were elected to commission. Fortunately, he lost badly and that was never a problem. But now city officials are passing laws to prevent duel office holding. The ordinance takes effect September 1st. 

Apparently, mayor Aikens and the council are in fear of someone that might have been going to run for a council seat in the November election. Not sure who they are targeting with their new law, but they got this one passed quickly. Mayor Aikens just can't have anyone on council that wouldn't do whatever he tells them to do.

The mayor just keeps whittling down who can run for office in the city. A couple years ago, they had a candidate kicked off the ballot because she worked at LCUB.

So for this election, the mayor/council has voted to allow judge candidates that do not live in the city to run for the office, cut the pay to the city judge from $75,000.00 to $7,200.00 and prohibited any other office holder from holding a city position. Before long, the mayor may decide you can only run for office in the city if you live at the addresses he picks.