Supak, County Attorney Since 2005, Will Not Run for Another Term

The deadline to file for candidacy in next year’s Republican and Democratic primaries was 6 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 11.

Peggy Supak, who has served as County Attorney for the last 19 years, had filed on Dec. 8 to run in the Democratic primary. She is the last remaining Democrat to hold County office since Fayette County shifted Republican decades ago. But this year she drew a Republican opponent. Schulenburg-based attorney Mark Elvig filed to run for CountyAttorney in the Republican Party on Dec. 8. Supak’s re-election as a Democrat next November would seem unlikely, considering that every Republican candidate in the last Gubernatorial election took more than 80 percent of the vote here.

Then just ahead of the deadline on Monday, Assistant Fayette County Attorney James Herbrich filed to run for his boss’s job in the Republican Primary. Supak announced on Tuesday that she will withdraw from the race.

“(Herbrich) is a most competent and dedicated attorney who has earned the unqualified respect of the judiciary, law enforcement, attorneys, and the peaceable and law abiding citizens of Fayette County,” Supak said in a statement on Tuesday. “ It is time for me to step aside and allow him to set the future course of policy and practice for this office.”

Read Supak’s full statement below.

So now, with no Democrats running, the County Attorney race will be decided in the Republican primary between Elvig and Herbrich.

In other election news, Michael Schlabach filed to run against incumbent Deborah Frank for the Chair of the Fayette County Republican Party.