May 14, 2008
UPSET: Hustead Wins Cabell Circuit Judge Race
By Tony Rutherford
Huntingtonnews.net Reporter
Huntington, WV (HNN) – “I told the girls, I’m scared to death. This is going to be hard,” a grateful and surprised Jane Hustead told reporters after she won a grassroots victor over Paul Farrell. “I’m going to be working for the next eight years for the hardest I’ve worked in a long, long time. I hope I can do what’s right … and fulfill the trust of the people. I just cannot say enough to thank them,” the assistant prosecutor said.
Overcoming heavy advertising by current at-large councilman Paul Farrell, a former Federal prosecutor, Hustead admitted she ran a grassroots campaign using her own money. Asked how many doors she knocked on, Hustead said many people were not home, so “I took to the phones.”
The soon to be judge credited her win to the voters: “The people did it. All I can say is thank you. I did not have anything prepared. I lost before and kept thinking I’d lose again. I was hoping against all hope that people would come out and listen to what I had to say. They just respected my integrity, experience, bless their hearts.”
Telling Prosecutor Chris Chiles she would be at work in the morning to work on grand jury indictments, Hustead praised her opponent as a “wonderful, wonderful man.”
She indicated that the same assertiveness which she displayed in the primary will be seen on the bench. Responding to a question about her campaign platform to help fix the broken magistrate court system, to crack down on multiple DUI offenses, and take a fresh look at the responsibilities of a circuit judge, the long brown haired assistant prosecutor reaffirmed her pledge to “hit the ground running,” with a no nonsense attitude.
“A lot of people won’t like that. It’s hard. And, it’s hard for me to do it. People don’t like me to hold their feet to the fire. I want to do what I pledged to do, and if I don’t I want people to knock on my door and tell me that I didn’t,” she said.
Attesting to both her determination and work ethic, Hustead will be back in the prosecutor’s office Wednesday morning. “I’ll be in the office tomorrow working on the grand jury stuff that Mr. Chiles has presented to me.”
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UPSET: Hustead Wins Cabell Circuit Judge Race
By Tony Rutherford
Huntingtonnews.net Reporter
Huntington, WV (HNN) – “I told the girls, I’m scared to death. This is going to be hard,” a grateful and surprised Jane Hustead told reporters after she won a grassroots victor over Paul Farrell. “I’m going to be working for the next eight years for the hardest I’ve worked in a long, long time. I hope I can do what’s right … and fulfill the trust of the people. I just cannot say enough to thank them,” the assistant prosecutor said.
Overcoming heavy advertising by current at-large councilman Paul Farrell, a former Federal prosecutor, Hustead admitted she ran a grassroots campaign using her own money. Asked how many doors she knocked on, Hustead said many people were not home, so “I took to the phones.”
The soon to be judge credited her win to the voters: “The people did it. All I can say is thank you. I did not have anything prepared. I lost before and kept thinking I’d lose again. I was hoping against all hope that people would come out and listen to what I had to say. They just respected my integrity, experience, bless their hearts.”
Telling Prosecutor Chris Chiles she would be at work in the morning to work on grand jury indictments, Hustead praised her opponent as a “wonderful, wonderful man.”
She indicated that the same assertiveness which she displayed in the primary will be seen on the bench. Responding to a question about her campaign platform to help fix the broken magistrate court system, to crack down on multiple DUI offenses, and take a fresh look at the responsibilities of a circuit judge, the long brown haired assistant prosecutor reaffirmed her pledge to “hit the ground running,” with a no nonsense attitude.
“A lot of people won’t like that. It’s hard. And, it’s hard for me to do it. People don’t like me to hold their feet to the fire. I want to do what I pledged to do, and if I don’t I want people to knock on my door and tell me that I didn’t,” she said.
Attesting to both her determination and work ethic, Hustead will be back in the prosecutor’s office Wednesday morning. “I’ll be in the office tomorrow working on the grand jury stuff that Mr. Chiles has presented to me.”
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