With less than a week before the qualifying deadline, former Lowndes County School District Superintendent Lynn Wright is so far the only candidate to file qualifying paperwork to run for the House District 37 special election.
The election is set for Sept. 22, and the qualifying deadline is Monday. There are no party primaries for the nonpartisan election.
Wright, who led LCSD as elected superintendent for eight years, is vying to complete Gary Chism's unexpired term in the Legislature. Chism
Yue Stella Yu was previously a reporter for The Dispatch.
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