Daniel Almond of Clyo is challenging fellow Republican and incumbent Jon Burns of Newington in State House District 159. Burns is House majority leader. Almond, who has worked for three years as a corrections officer at the Effingham County prison, is running for elected office for the first time. Almond is a U.S.

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