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Hobson intends to run for judge. He is more often known as Hobson McKown and seeks the position of magisterial district judge. Hobson wants to be a judge in Warren, Pennsylvania in magisterial district 37-2-01, which covers the City of Warren, and Sheffield, Pleasant, and Cherry Grove townships.
The magisterial district judge has had many official and unofficial names throughout the past, e.g.: justice of the peace, district justice, magistrate. MDJs are not required to be lawyers but must take certification courses and past a test to be qualified for office, and more often than not, MDJs are not attorneys. This type of judge handles a multitude of petty but not unimportant matters both civilly and criminally, including trials for summary cases, preliminary hearings for most misdemeanors and felonies, the initial setting of bail in criminal cases, civil procedings for money damages less than $8,000, and certain landlord-tenant disputes. Hobson McKown seeks to be a neutral and detached magistrate providing fair and impartial proceedings, having a special reverence for the Pennsylvania and United States constitutions.
Hobson will have been preceded in office by Arthur W. Zerbe, Sr., whom will have held office for 18 years. The only other currently-announced contender for the position is Glenn Carlson, who had held office in district 37-3-04 12 years prior to Jan. 2008. Hobson McKown comes as a layperson with a freshly intense devotion to the system of ordered liberty, rule of law, and the PA and US constitutions, who has not yet become too comfortable in the position of a career judge.
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"Authorized by and paid for Hobson Lyle McKown", if that foregoing is neccessary.