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The letter, which was also addressed to Butler County GOP Executive Chairman Todd Hall, did not provide a reason:
“I, Terri S. King, hereby respectfully submit my Letter of Withdrawal from the Middletown Municipal Court Judicial race effective immediately, and request that my name be removed from the November 2017 ballot,” the letter stated.
The Journal-News has reached out to King for additional comment.
On Friday, attorney Melynda Cook Howard will be sworn in as Middletown Municipal Court judge, succeeding the late Judge Mark Wall, who died in February. She was appointed by Gov. John Kasich in May, but it’s only temporary.
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Wall died three years before his term on the bench expires, and by state law an election must be held for a person to serve out the remaining two years.
King, who ran for the 8th Congressional District seat in 2016, was certified on the November ballot.
Cook Howard is also certified for the November ballot in the non-partisan race, along with local attorneys Beth Yauch Joseph, Jeff Milbauer and James Sherron.
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