LOUISA,Ky. — Lawrence County’s Noah Thompson has brought excitement to the region, state and nation by making the TOP 3 in this season’s show, and a giant American Idol “Hometown Visit” is planned for tomorrow with an escort through downtown Louisa and a FREE concert at Luke Varney Stadium, which holds about 2,500.
WOW! We’ve never been through anything like this before in Louisa. Visitors are expected form all parts to see Thompson, the construction worker at ARC to worldwide fame in a matter of weeks. Just WOW!
Lawrence County Sheriff Chuck Jackson said this morning that he was on his way to a meeting with Louisa Chief Greg Fugitt and other law enforcement to plan the logistics of handling a crowd that could be in the thousands.
Jackson said if there is as many people as some are predicting, he thinks he can get more support from Post 14 of the KSP and maybe more.
COLLISION?
“The ‘escort’ through Louisa has been put back to 7:00 and the polls close at 6:00 for the election so we are going to plan a way for late voters to get to the polls,” Jackson said. “If the crowd starts gathering earlier, we will stick to our route for the escort. We are also looking at the parking situation at the football field.”
Lawrence County Clerk Chris Jobe, who is responsible for county elections, did not come to work a clerk who answered the phone said. “He is not feeling well today,” she said.
(UPDATE- Jobe said this morning that he was working from home yesterday as he rarely does, and has full control of the office and the election at all times. “I resent you quoting someone in my office who answers the phone and call them a ‘spokesperson’ because I am the only spokesperson for the clerk’s office,” Jobe said this morning.)
Much of the election process is computerized the seven voting places set up for Tuesday will be able to send results digitally. But they have to bring the machine totals to the courthouse to be tallied officially after the polls close at six.
“It’s a wait and see situation,” Jackson said. “We’ll just have to handle what comes the best we can. But be prepared. Lawrence County people stick together during a time like this and we’ll get it done and I hope everybody has a good time seeing and hearing Noah,”
LOL…Jackson showing he doesn’t appear to know which KSP post would be best to get help from. KSP post 14 is Ashland and KSP post 12 is Frankfort. Highly doubt Frankfort will send troopers. He’s been around long enough he should know post 9 is Pikeville and covers neighboring counties Martin and Johnson. Going to be another long 4 years.
This newspaper makes up stuff all the time. Sheriff Jackson probably didn’t even say any of that.
Ask him, toothless!
Chuck can handle it. Got faith in him.
And that’s why he said post 14 from Ashland, because he knows what he’s doing.
Why do you always try to make the clerks office look like they have no idea what they’re doing? “ And nobody in the office knows how to handle the potentially cumbersome situation.” Of course they don’t know how to handle the situation, has anything like this ever happened on Election Day before?? NO
And why was it relevant that Chris Jobe was home sick today?? That has nothing to do with anything. You always act like you have something against his office.
Chuck Jackson is a great sheriff and leader for Lawrence county.
Funniest thing I’ve seen in a while. Evidently you haven’t need him or one of his deputies to investigate anything. Glad you haven’t had a death that needed to be investigated and the ball get dropped.
Apparently you haven’t either or you would be used your name lol
Nope haven’t needed him or his deputies. If I needed law enforcement in LC and wasn’t in the city I would call the state police!