PER YEAR. TW WELL-KNOWN FLOYD COUNTY REPUBLICANS ARE COMPETING FOR THE SAME COMMISSIONER SEAT. RICK: JOHN CARRUTHERS AND AL NABEL WERE RUNNING AND GESTURED ON E.MARK VANDERHOFF TALKED TO BOTH CANDIDATES TODAY. MARK: YOU MIGHT BE ASKING, WHY ARE THESE TWO RUNNING THE SAME RA?CE AT THE TIME AL KNABLE ANNOUNCED HE WAS RUNNING SHAWN CARRUTHERS SAID HE WAS RUNNING FOR STATE SENATE. REDISTRICTING HAPPENED AND CARRUTHERS DIDECED HE DID NOT WANT TO RUN IN THE NEW DISTRICT. CARRUTHERS IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE FLOYD COUNTY COMMISSION. KNABLE IS A COUNCILMAN WITH THE RAPID GROWTH THROUGHOUT FYDLO COUNTY. BOTH CANDIDATES ARE PLEDGING TO FIND WAYS TO PRESERVE THE RURAL CHARACTER. >> I DO NOT WANT TO SEE THAT GO AWAY. I THINK WE HAVE KIND OF DISCARDED A LOT OF OUR FARMING FAMILIES. I THINK THEY ARE NOT BROUGHT TO THE TABLE OR TAKEN SERIOUSLY WHEN THEY ARE BROUGHT TO THE TABLE. >> UPGRADES IN OUR BOOKS AND PLANNINGOR F OUR DEVELOPME.NT WE KEEP AN EYE ON THAT AND MAKE SURE THEY EAR UPDATED AND MAKE SURE OUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN IS FOLLOWED. MARK: AT THE MESA TIME, THEYRE A EACH PROMISING TO MAKE FLOYD COUNTY A GREAT PLACE T LOIVE. FROM BUILDING NEW PARKS TO TAKING CARE OF INFRASTRUCTURE. >> I CAN TAKE YOU ON A FIVE MINUTE DRIVE FROM HERE AND WE WILLO GUP THE HILL AND YOU WOULD HOLD YOUR BREATH DURING SOME OF THOSE CURVES BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE THEY ARE COMING DOWN, DOWN, DOWN AS YOU DRIVE OVER. >> LOOK AT THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS I HAVE BEEN PART OF. NOVA PARK, PURCHASING REMO LAND TO CREATE MORE PARKS IN FLOYD COUNTY, TO MAKE SURE IT IS A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE, OUR PAVING HAS BEEN ABOVE NONE OTHER IN OUR REGION. WE HAVE PAVED A RECORD NUMBER OF ROADS. MA:RK THERE ARE TWO CANDIDATES RUNNING IN THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY FOR DISTRICT ONE, TYLER GAINES AND CHUCK SIMONS. MARK VANDERHOFF, WLKYEWS. N RICK