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Bondurant Wins Fifth Term As Flomaton Mayor; Wagner Defeats Crapps
August 26, 2020
Flomaton Mayor Dewey Bondurant was elected to fifth term on Tuesday.
Bondurant defeated challengers Chris Burnham and Kevin Knowles.
For town council District 4, Kay Wagner defeated incumbent C.E. (Buster) Crapps and Adienne Johnson. Wagner previously served four years as mayor and three terms on the town council.
Council members Charlie Reardon, Lillian Dean, Jim Johnson and Roger Adkinson were automatically reelected to their seats without opposition.
Here are complete but unofficial election results from Tuesday’s municipal election in Flomaton:
MAYOR
- Dewey J. Bondurant, Jr. (I) – 183
- Chris Burnham – 115
- Kevin Knowles – 66
DISTRICT 4
- Kay Wagner – 41
- C.E. (Buster) Crapps (I) – 36
- Adrienne Johnson – 3
NorthEscambia.com photo.
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12 Responses to “Bondurant Wins Fifth Term As Flomaton Mayor; Wagner Defeats Crapps”
not much of a turn out for the election. flomaton has a good police dept and fire dept. Dewey is a good mayor and person. we do need jobs in town but without a population to bring in jobs it won’t be easy. the state line doesn’t help either. flomaton is in a lot better shape than its neighbor, and people do use the park. last but not least are the schools that tie serve the town. both are A+ and tie the town together.
The only thing to do in flomaton is get in trouble…. if you’re young, PLEASE LEAVE FLOMATON AND MAKE SOMETHING OF YOURSELF!!!!
Don’t you love it when people state “facts” and sound all important.
Something didn’t sound right about the claim the school owns the ballpark and no one wants to talk about that.
Well it isn’t true.
At least they don’t own all of it. Look at the maps which are online. The school owns some fields the town owns some and the concession stands.
@justaneighbor.
The town is in about 2 million in debt. When Dewey took over 16 years ago the town had 1 million in a bank in Mobile. Then in 2017 they found $640,000 dollars in the bank and nobody knew how it got there. By 2019 it was all gone and tried to blame it on a past clerk for putting the money in the secretacxount that no knew who opened it.
Negative ghost rider on the ownership of the ballparks. I once looked at the online map and the property is divided several ways with the school and town dividing ownership.
As far as those wanting the town to entertain your kids please.
Pick up the garbage, keep the water and sewer on and provide police protection.
It irks me to no end when everyone says do something for the kids. Less government please. If it were profitable someone would develop the theaters and drive ins.
The ball park belongs to the Board of Education, but nobody wants to let people know that. Also the sewer lagoon is failing and it has been for at least 8 years, plus it will not support any new businesses (large) without building a larger sewage treatment plant. Just to be able to support what is in the current lagoon will cost about 1.5 million.
Kay Wagner……..
Now there’s a blast from the past.
Your town is dead, no business and no jobs. Probably all nice people, but it is time for some younger people to step up and run for office. Look around our town, it’s time for change.
I agree with you @ Ellen and after almost two decades it’s sad to think the only major talking points were a park and highway that was going to be widened anyway. I am sure Mr. Bondurant is a nice gentleman, but really, it was time to give it up.
I didn’t know either of the two other two gentlemen running personally, but felt they deserved a chance, heck anyone else did. Those two basically cancelled each other’s votes out. Now the town will continue to look abandoned for a little while longer.
So Dewey won, guess that means 4 more years of him putting the town in debt and not doing anything positive for the town. His new project he wants to work on is 250 more grave sites at Flomaton Cemetery, what I don’t understand is why is he wanting to spend more money on burial plots when he can take the money and do something for our youth? There is absolutely nothing to do in Flomaton for our kids except a park that nobody wants to even go to. Put an arcade in Flomaton, build a skate park, build some little docks at the creek for families anything other than worrying about more burial plots. I guess what the mayor is trying to say is there’s nothing to do but die in Flomaton. Apparently they aren’t worried about growing and giving the residents something to do. What you gonna do Mr. Mayor when you run out of money and your buddy at the bank can’t just give u a loan without going through the whole process? Escambia County bank is merging with another bank (probably because they can’t stay in business without being rescued by another bank) and you can’t run to them for every little thing anymore. I would love to know the debt amount this town owes.
I sure was hoping for some new leadership for Flomaton. Five terms and he has still done VERY little for that town. He did FIND Nan account with $650k in it that NO ONE knew about despite weekly deposits being made into it.
Same ole politics, same ole politicians