Robbie McCormick
KY · Mayor of Hawesville
Hawesville mayor and former city council member who has run a local business, 4Js Supply. He studied environmental chemistry at WKU, worked seven years for the EPA in Texas, and has pushed to pay off the city's water surcharge and win infrastructure grants.
Where Robbie McCormick stands, based on their records
Supports
Government Efficiency (3 records), Public Safety and Crime Control (1 record), Public Infrastructure (3 records)
Mixed record
Government Spending Reduction (1 support · 2 oppose)
Track record
Track record — Government Efficiency
Government Efficiency · 3 support
Finished clearing the city's years-long backlog of overdue financial audits, which cost the city over $125,000 and unfroze state funding.
August 6, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
Source: hancockclarion.com
Signed a sworn statement under a state law for lost city records, asking the state to unfreeze funds held back because of years of missed city audits.
April 9, 2024Supports Government Efficiency
Source: hancockclarion.com
Moved the city's bank accounts from First Financial to Independence Bank to cut card fees and earn more interest on city money.
May 9, 2023Supports Government Efficiency
Source: hancockclarion.com
Track record — Government Spending Reduction
Government Spending Reduction · 1 support · 2 oppose
Led a water and sewer rate increase that the council passed. He said it raises about $687,185 more a year to fix old water lines and tanks.
December 9, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: hancockclarion.com
Signed the city's application for a $161,438 state grant to help build a park in downtown Hawesville without taking on new debt.
August 13, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: hancockclarion.com
Proposed paying off the city's 1996 rural water bond early, which ended a $21 monthly surcharge on rural water customers. The council approved it.
December 12, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: hancockclarion.com
Track record — Public Safety and Crime Control
Public Safety and Crime Control · 1 support
Issued an executive order declaring a state of emergency in Hawesville during major Ohio River flooding, letting the city ask for state and federal help.
April 4, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: hancockclarion.com
Track record — Public Infrastructure
Public Infrastructure · 3 support
Led a water and sewer rate increase that the council passed. He said it raises about $687,185 more a year to fix old water lines and tanks.
December 9, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: hancockclarion.com
Signed the city's application for a $161,438 state grant to help build a park in downtown Hawesville without taking on new debt.
August 13, 2024Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: hancockclarion.com
Defended a city sewer rate increase of about $8 to $12 a month to Windward Heights residents who called it unfair. He said the city needed it to meet its debt payments.
May 14, 2024Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: hancockclarion.com
Track record — General
General · 7 records
Told residents worried about the TeraWulf data center at the old Century Aluminum site that the land sale was private and the city had no say in it.
March 10, 2026
Source: hancockclarion.com
Was named 2024 Person of the Year by the Hancock County Chamber of Commerce.
June 18, 2024
Source: hancockclarion.com
Met with U.S. Rep. Brett Guthrie and state Sen. Boswell to ask for help releasing state funds frozen over the city's late audits.
August 16, 2023
Source: hancockclarion.com
Held Hawesville's first town hall meeting in decades to take public questions on a water rate increase of $5 the first year and 3 percent a year after.
July 18, 2023
Source: hancockclarion.com
Fired Hawesville Police Chief Harold Parente in his first week as mayor and hired Cody Axton as the new chief. He told the council he was advised not to say why.
January 10, 2023
Source: hancockclarion.com
Won election as Hawesville mayor, beating longtime incumbent Mayor Charles King by six votes, 197 to 191.
November 8, 2022
Source: hancockclarion.com
Was appointed to the Hawesville City Council by a unanimous council vote to fill the seat left by Joy Haycraft.
September 29, 2021
Source: hancockclarion.com
Past race Robbie McCormick ran in:
- Mayor · November 3, 2026 · Hawesville city, Kentucky · incumbent