St. Augustine Commission Seat 3: Jones beats Whetstone for city seat
St. Johns County School Board employee Errol D. Jones edged out St. Augustine businesswoman Virginia Whetstone for the Seat 3 City Commission seat Tuesday night.
This was an open seat, with no incumbent.
Jones, 60, is the first black St. Augustine resident elected to the commission since the 1980s.
He is a district social worker for the St. Johns County school system and teaches sociology at Bethune-Cookman College.
Whetstone, 41, is a St. Augustine native who is president of Whetstone Chocolates and chief administrative officer of SweetWorks, a candy and gum company.
Jones said, "Obviously, I'm elated. I thank God and the citizens of St. Augustine for having faith in me. I will do my utmost to represent them well."
Whetstone's campaign workers said she was already out picking up her campaign signs and wasn't available for comment.
But she did leave a prepared statement with her campaign manager.
"I greatly appreciate the confidence the voters had in me in my first race," she said. "We are proud of the positive campaign that our team ran."
The commission seat is for two years and pays $6,000 a year.
Jones will be sworn in on Dec. 2, the day the commission reorganizes for the new year.
He said the vote "clearly showed" he was the city's choice.
"I look forward to serving the city. Miss Whetstone ran a very good race."
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