“I got cleaned out in Morgan County,” said Angelo “Doc” Mancuso said of his defeat in the District 3 Senate race at the hands of former Morgan County Probate Judge Bobby Day.

Mancuso took 67.8 percent of the vote in Limestone and won all boxes in Madison, but it wasn’t enough to stem the Day charge in Morgan.

Day took 76 percent of the Morgan vote—4,7,32 votes—over Mancuso’s 24 percent with 53 out of 59 boxes reporting at 10:30 p.m.

Mancuso, a former state representative, said a last-minute “negative flyer” stymied his numbers.

“I hate to say it was a lie, but it was a lie,” said Mancuso. “It turned the tide and I couldn’t pull it out. There were just so many good people who worked for me. My children were with me all the way. People I thought didn’t care got out and helped me. I feel like I’ve let them down. I thank the people of Limestone County who have never let me down.”

Day will face off against Republican attorney Arthur Orr of Decatur in the general election. Orr took 78.8 percent of the vote in Limestone and 85.3 percent in Morgan County, scoring a resounding defeat of his opponent, Hubert M. Porter, who took 21.2 percent of the Limestone vote and 14.7 percent of the Morgan vote.

District 25

Former lawman Mac McCutcheon of Madison County defeated incumbent Ray Garner in the House District 25 Republican Primary. McCutcheon has no Democratic opposition in the November general election.

McCutcheon, a relative newcomer to politics, ran an unsuccessful campaign for Madison County sheriff in 2002. He said he felt his edge over incumbent Garner was that people in District 25 didn’t feel they “had a voice in Montgomery.”

McCutcheon took 70 percent of the Limestone vote and won every box but one in Madison.

“I think I’m a real representative of the people,” said McCutcheon. “It’s being in touch, being a voice for them, a representative for their concerns.”

McCutcheon said concerns he heard during his campaign ranged from Amendment 1 to yearly tax appraisals to funding for education and roads.

“But most of all they were concerned that their voice was not being heard in Montgomery.”