Bill Spinks

Bill Spinks wspinks@cherryroad.com Early voting is underway for the June 15 Midlothian City Council Place 6 runoff between incumbent councilmember Hud Hartson and Wayne Shuffield. Early voting centers opened on Monday and continued throughout the week, with the polls open on Saturday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Early voting will conclude on Monday, June 10, and Tuesday, June 11, with locations open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. In Midlothian, early voting is taking place at the Midlothian Conference Center at 1 Community Circle Drive. Other voting centers are open in Waxahachie, Red Oak, Ennis and Palmer. All registered voters in Ellis County may vote at any early voting center. Election Day voting next Saturday, June 15, will take place at six locations across Ellis County, including the Midlothian Conference Center. In the May 4 City Council Place 6 balloting, no candidate received a majority of votes. Shuffield led with 1,228 votes, followed by Hartson with 907, Dannion McLendon with 484 and Ronnie Morris with 429. Shuffield and Hartson advanced to a runoff as the top two vote-getters. Hartson, a veteran Dallas police officer, was voted into office in a 2020 special election to complete the term of the late Art Pierard. Hartson avoided a runoff in a three-way race for a full term in 2021 by a comfortable margin. Shuffield is a former Midlothian ISD board president and a trustee for 10 years (2005-2015), and former chairman of Midlothian Economic Development who is still serving as the MED treasurer. Questionnaires from both candidates are being published on Page A6 of this week’s issue of the Mirror. Other races decided on May 4 were the election of Ross Weaver to Place 5 on the Council; the re-election of incumbents Richard Peña and Gary Vineyard to Place 1 and Place […]