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Title: Clerk's challenger has colorful past
Post by: Shana A on May 15, 2010, 08:03:54 AM

Clerk's challenger has colorful past

    * By Amanda Winters
    * Posted May 14, 2010 at 11:06 p.m.

http://www.redding.com/news/2010/may/14/challenger-has-colorful-past/ (http://www.redding.com/news/2010/may/14/challenger-has-colorful-past/)

In her bid for re-election, Shasta County Clerk Cathy Darling, 41, faces a colorful opponent known for two decades of political antics.

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Hunt wrote in an e-mail that as county clerk he would move to a mail-in-ballot-only voting system, would personally verify addresses of candidates and would not issue marriage certificates for transsexual couples.

In March, Darling granted a marriage certificate to a transsexual woman who was born male and her female partner.