# 2018 Rowan County (KY) County Clerk election

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-rowan-county-ky-county-clerk-election/800998>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [November 7, 2017, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-rowan-county-ky-county-clerk-election/800998 "2017-11-07T20:57:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-rowan-county-ky-county-clerk-election/800998/41 "2018-11-07T23:18:21Z")

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Fuck yeah! 😃

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**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-rowan-county-ky-county-clerk-election/800998/42 "2018-11-07T23:20:49Z")

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This was the last news I heard before I went to sleep last night. It made me happy. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-rowan-county-ky-county-clerk-election/800998/43 "2018-11-08T02:01:36Z")

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Woot!

Thanks for the timely update, **N9IWP**!

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-rowan-county-ky-county-clerk-election/800998/44 "2018-11-08T16:38:08Z")

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Yes, indeed. Here’s NBC News’s article: [Kentucky clerk jailed over gay marriage licenses loses re-election bid](https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/kentucky-clerk-jailed-over-gay-marriage-licenses-loses-re-election-n933451)

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**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-rowan-county-ky-county-clerk-election/800998/45 "2018-11-08T18:27:21Z")

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> [@wolfman](#):
>
> just for a little surrealism in the world of County Clerks, Here is the latest story of one from the Detroit area.
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> [Macomb's top judge says county clerk must end her backlog immediately](http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2017/11/09/macombs-embattled-county-clerk-gets-judges-deadline-today-clean-up-big-backlog/849331001/)
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> Basically a pure nutcase “Gubmint is bad” type who lied and ran in a county she didn’t live in, and is trying to shut down government entirely by herself, by refusing to do any element of the job.

For final closure, since I started this, Spranger was removed, spent a long time threatening to have Trump come in and have her reinstated, field several lawsuits that were dismissed as complete gibberish, reportedly wanted to replace county building toilet plumbing with holes full of shit eating worms,… etc.

[https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2018/11/01/the-strange-story-about-ousted-county-clerk-karen-spranger-now-involves-fecal-worms](https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2018/11/01/the-strange-story-about-ousted-county-clerk-karen-spranger-now-involves-fecal-worms).  
As of the Tuesday election the position is finally back the hands of someone who appears sane.

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