Mayor Rocker is re-elected
By Deborah Bennett Millen News Editor

Poll workers prepare to open and count absentee ballots during Tuesday's City of Millen Municipal Election. (Staff photo by Deborah Bennett)

Unofficial results for the City of Millen Municipal Election held Tuesday indicate that Mayor King Rocker was successful in his bid for re-election.

Rocker polled 581votes with challenger Bobby Anthony, a former city councilman, polling 332 votes. At the polls, Rocker received 101 votes to Anthony's 167. Touch screen ballots for absentee and advance voting garnered Rocker 107 votes to Anthony's 38. Approximately 503 paper absentee ballots were cast with Rocker polling 373 votes and Anthony 127.

City councilmen Lee Ward Williams, representing Ward #1, and Darrel Clifton, representing Ward #2, were both unopposed, and both were re-elected to their respective posts. Williams polled 173 votes with Clifton polling 447 votes.

This will be Rocker's second term as Mayor of Millen having been elected to the post in 2003 for a term of office that began January 2004. At that time, he succeeded Mayor Robert Fields Jr. who decided against seeking another term of office, having served in the position since 1990.

Rocker and Anthony were the only candidates seeking the Mayoral seat in that election also.