Jim Newberry was elected Mayor of Lexington, Kentucky on November 7, 2006. He defeated incumbent Teresa Issac in his second attempt for political office. He previously had run for the Democratic nomination for the Sixth Congressional District of Kentucky in 1996. He came in fifth. A mayor (from the Latin mÄior, meaning larger,greater) is in modern times the title of the highest ranking municipal officer, who discharges certain judicial and administrative functions, in many systems an elected politician, who serves as chief executive and/or ceremonial official of many types of municipalities. ... Nickname: Athens of the West Horse Capital of the World Location in the Commonwealth of Kentucky Coordinates: Country State Counties United States Kentucky Fayette Mayor Teresa Isaac (D) Area - City 285. ... The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States; the other being the Republican Party. ...
The Honorable Teresa Ann Isaac Teresa Ann Isaac is the current mayor of the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government, in Lexington, KY. Bio Mayor Isaac entered Lexington’s political scene as a candidate for the Urban County Council and won an At-Large seat in 1989. ... The Honorable Teresa Ann Isaac Teresa Ann Isaac is the current mayor of the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government, in Lexington, KY. Bio Mayor Isaac entered Lexington’s political scene as a candidate for the Urban County Council and won an At-Large seat in 1989. ...
Newberry's family was prominent in the community, as educators and landowners, said Ed Hatchett, a former state auditor who grew up in Hiseville and graduated from high school five years before Newberry.
Newberry went after Scorsone, a defense attorney, for representing "drug dealers, child molesters, church embezzlers and wife beaters," and accused him of not being tough on crime as a legislator.
Newberry said recently that he was criticizing Scorsone for his work as a legislator, not as a defense attorney.
Newberry defeated Mayor Teresa Isaac with 63 percent of the vote to become Lexington's mayor-elect.
Newberry plans to continue to develop the downtown area as real-estate property but also wants some of the housing to be directed at a college student's budget.
Newberry, a lawyer from Hiseville, Ky., served as an executive officer in the office of the lieutenant governor in the late 1980s and as the secretary of the Kentucky Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet.
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