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Thursday, July 10, 2014
BY SCOTT LEFFLER
scott.leffler@eastniagarapost.com
Two city residents filed petitions with the Niagara County Board of Elections by the 5 p.m. deadline to run for the 2nd Ward Alderman seat being vacated by Ron Franco at the end of the year.
Anita Mullane, of Lindhurst Drive, filed petitions to run on the Democratic and Working Families lines, while Patrick Feeley submitted on the Republican, Independence and Conservative lines.
While they were the only people to file by 5 p.m., others petitions could still be submitted to the Board of Elections, provided they were sent via mail and have today's date postmarked on them.
Both Feeley and Mullane announced their candidacies on July 2, following an announcement by Franco that he would not be seeking election to the second half of the two-year term he was appointed to in March. The seat was formerly held by now-Mayor Anne McCaffrey, who vacated it and became mayor following the resignation of former Mayor Mike Tucker.
While neither has held office previously, Mullane has run for alderman twice before, while Feeley was one of eight people who expressed interest in the seat when McCaffrey vacated it earlier this year. Barring mailed petitions or having their own petitions voided — Thursday's filings are unofficial until declared valid by the Board of Elections — Feeley and Mullane will take their respective filed party designations to the general election on Nov. 4, where a new alderman will be selected from the two of them.
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scott.leffler@eastniagarapost.com
Two city residents filed petitions with the Niagara County Board of Elections by the 5 p.m. deadline to run for the 2nd Ward Alderman seat being vacated by Ron Franco at the end of the year.
Anita Mullane, of Lindhurst Drive, filed petitions to run on the Democratic and Working Families lines, while Patrick Feeley submitted on the Republican, Independence and Conservative lines.
While they were the only people to file by 5 p.m., others petitions could still be submitted to the Board of Elections, provided they were sent via mail and have today's date postmarked on them.
Both Feeley and Mullane announced their candidacies on July 2, following an announcement by Franco that he would not be seeking election to the second half of the two-year term he was appointed to in March. The seat was formerly held by now-Mayor Anne McCaffrey, who vacated it and became mayor following the resignation of former Mayor Mike Tucker.
While neither has held office previously, Mullane has run for alderman twice before, while Feeley was one of eight people who expressed interest in the seat when McCaffrey vacated it earlier this year. Barring mailed petitions or having their own petitions voided — Thursday's filings are unofficial until declared valid by the Board of Elections — Feeley and Mullane will take their respective filed party designations to the general election on Nov. 4, where a new alderman will be selected from the two of them.
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