The Eagles sang in the song “Sad Cafe”: “Change in this life comes very slowly, if it ever comes at all.”
That line certainly applies to Lexington County politics. But this is the year that slow train came.
For 42 years Lexington County has had one sheriff. For 37 years there was the same coroner. And for years, a tax-hike majority had prevailed on Lexington County Council.
Coroner candidates Brian Setree and Margaret Fisher are headed to a July 14 run-off after an election to thin the field of six candidates, Tuesday.
The winner will be the first new Lexington County Coroner since 1976.
Setree and Fisher got the most votes of several candidates vying to replace Coroner Harry Harman, who passed away in April
The county has its first new sheriff since 1972, when Lewis McCarty was appointed last month to replace James Metts. And Ned Tolar defeated a 16-year incumbent county councilman on a campaign to change the county's reckless-spending direction.
Three candidates have already announced plans to run for sheriff.
In two of the three three moves the change was forced, but it is change nonetheless.
And replacing the figureheads is just part of the show. There will be more drama - in the courtroom and council chambers - to come, as the results of this change unfolds. Stay tuned.
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