STUART — From development approvals to spending on roads to airport management, Lee Weberman and Sarah Heard disagreed on just about every controversial issue that arose during the six years they served together on the Martin County Commission.

But there is one thing Heard and Weberman agree on: If no one else enters the Aug. 24, 2010, Republican primary in Commission District 4, voters will have a clear choice between two candidates with dramatically different views.

Weberman, who represented District 3 from 2000 until his defeat in the 2008 election, set the stage for a 10-month long debate on Monday by filing his statement of candidacy in the Republican primary in District 4 with the Supervisor of Elections. Heard, who first won office in 2002, officially started her campaign for a third four-year term in March.

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