MONCKS CORNER, SC –Berkeley County Elections and Voter Registration Director Adam Hammons announced this morning that attorney and Berkeley County Republican Party Chairman Josh Whitley (R – Daniel Island) has been certified as the official winner of the special election for the District 2 seat on County Council.
Hammons said that Whitley was the only candidate to file for the partisan primaries and that no one filed as a write-in candidate.
Whitley is a 2001 graduate of Berkeley High School, having grown up in the Pinopolis-Moncks Corner area. He now calls Daniel Island home with his wife and baby daughter.
In 2012, he was a major opponent of the Berkeley Co. School Districts’ ‘Yes 4 Schools’ campaign. Last year, he presented his concerns about the campaign to SC Attorney General Alan Wilson–which resulted in an ongoing SLED investigation and the indictment of Amy Kovach, the district’s communications director.
Whitley is set to be sworn into office at 6:30 PM on Monday, February 23rd in the County Council Chambers, before the scheduled County Council meeting begins.
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