School Board Race Getting Ugly

The gloves are off in the race for a Mobile County School Board seat, while one candidate is trying to get the other thrown off the July ballot. Fleet Belle currently holds the District Four position. Belle is up against Levon Manzie for a runoff July 15th, but Belle has filed an official election complaint to kick Manzie off the ballot. Belle says Manzie did not submit his paperwork for candidacy with the Mobile County Probate Court when he was supposed to. "I filed and I filed properly, if I am not above the law, neither is my opponent,"Said Belle. While the Mobile County School Board member filed the complaint with the Mobile County Probate Court, today Judge Don Davis handed it over to the Democratic party. Davis says the Probate Court can not handle the complaint because it is not their jurisdiction. Manzie admits there was an error when he filed, but he says he followed the Democratic party's rules. "I feel I followed the instructions as I was given and I feel in the course of doing that we filed the paper work as we were instructed,"Said Manzie.  Belle tells us he plans to appeal the Judge Don Davis' decision with the State Supreme Court.