A divorce filed in the summer of 2019 in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, indirectly led to an Aug. 6 general election ballot with its lone contested race pitting husband and wife against each other for the Bledsoe County School Board seat she’d held for eight years, WRCB reports. In a 154-101 vote total, Bledsoe County resident and local attorney Ben Farmer unseated the incumbent, his wife, Stacy Holman Farmer, also an attorney. She is the mother of his three children. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports that Mr. Farmer claims he did not know that Mrs. Farmer intended to run for re-election when he filed his qualifying papers. “Mr. Farmer was successful, and I hope the board continues to advocate for the betterment of our students,” Stacy Farmer said in an email to the Times Free Press. “I am proud of the accomplishments of the school system as a whole during my service as a board member.
Man unseats wife in Bledsoe County school board election
Aug 18, 2020 | 5:00 AM