“What, did I win?” Doug Harris asked from his truck, Wednesday. Harris, the mayor of Hepler, Kan., didn’t file for re-election, but according to Gene Rountree-Garcia, Crawford County’s director of elections, Harris was leading 9-1 among write-in votes cast in Tuesday’s election. “The one. That was probably my wife,” Harris laughed as he headed to another job site. Like many public servants in rural Kansas, Harris doesn’t campaign for office. He does the job out of a sense of civic duty. “The mayor’s job pays so well,” Harris joked. Although the mayor and council members are unpaid, that doesn’t mean they don’t have important work to do. Harris said he is fortunate to have a very good city council to work with.
Source: Morning Sun
