At Least Two of the Officials to be Part of Response to Prison Officer Killing on Christmas Day
Nine Ross County and state officials were sworn in at noon on the last day of the year. Six had won re-election in the fall ballot.
Each one was encouraged to bring their own Bible and be joined by family and friends, to be sworn in by one of the four county and municipal court judges, in Courtroom Number One in the courthouse.
All but one of the officeholders were Republican men. (Ross County Coroner Ben Trotter (D), who had an uncontested race, was sworn in at a separate time.)
David Glass happened to be the first, and I caught him on camera being sworn in to his first elected office as county commissioner. (See my previous story on his new job.)…