ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, August 27, 1996 TAG: 9608270104
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: TODD JACKSON STAFF WRITER
Two Republicans will run as independents in the November special election for Franklin County Circuit Court clerk.
Daniel Boone and Amanda Davis are the fourth and fifth - and final - candidates to enter the clerk's race. The deadline for independent candidates to announce their intentions was Friday, and the Democratic and Republican parties nominated their candidates months ago.
Boone and Davis, in fact, vied for and lost the Republican nomination to Ben Pinckard Jr. at a party mass meeting in March.
Boone, who couldn't be reached for comment Monday, is a fiscal planner for AFI Financial Services in Roanoke.
This is not his first bid for elected office. Running as an independent, Boone finished fourth in a five-way race for county treasurer in 1991.
He grabbed newspaper headlines, though, for carrying a coonskin cap around in his car on campaign stops.
Davis works as a canvasser for R.L. Polk & Co. in Roanoke, the company that compiles information for the city directory.
This isn't her first run for elected office, either.
She lost a race for the at-large seat on the Franklin County School Board to William Helm last year.
She said recently that she's a strong conservative with strong religious convictions and plans to campaign on her philosophy.
Davis and Boone - by running against the Republican nominee - cannot remain members in good standing of the party, county GOP Chairman Carthan Currin said.
Pinckard, the Republican candidate, is an auditor for Carilion Health System in Roanoke.
The other candidates in the clerk's race are Sheriff's Capt. Bill Overton, a Democrat, and Alice Hall, an independent who has worked in the clerk's office for 44 years.
Hall, the county's deputy clerk, assumed the clerk's duties on the retirement of William Walker last year.
The winner of November's special election will serve the remaining four years of Walker's eight-year term.
The clerk's salary is $72,000 per year.
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