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Four candidates file for Rochester City Council president seat
Mon, Feb 4th, 2013
Posted in Rochester Government
Posted in Rochester Government
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Four candidates, including two current Rochester city council members, have filed their candidacy for the council president seat.
The field includes interim council president Randy Staver, second ward representative Michael Wojcik, real estate attorney Jeff Thompson, and retired Federal Medical Center employee Jan Throndson.
Throndson challenged then incumbent council president Dennis Hanson for the seat in last year’s election, garnering 43 percent of the vote to Hanson’s 51 percent. Thompson received about five percent of the vote as a write-in candidate. Hanson suffered a fatal brain aneurysm in June, but his name was required to remain on the ballot because of a recent change in state law. His postmortem victory necessitated this special election.
Staver, a department head in information technology at the Mayo Clinic, was elected to represent Rochester’s fifth ward in 2010 and selected by his fellow council members to assume the role of interim council president this past July.
Wojcik, first elected to represent Rochester’s second ward in 2008 and re-elected this past November, is a financial analyst – president and owner of Elite Consulting - and consistently the council’s most active and outspoken member.
The election will be held on Tuesday, March 19th. If the candidate with the most votes does not also receive more than 50 percent of the total votes, the two candidates receiving the highest vote totals will advance to a second election on a yet to be determined date.
The field includes interim council president Randy Staver, second ward representative Michael Wojcik, real estate attorney Jeff Thompson, and retired Federal Medical Center employee Jan Throndson.
Throndson challenged then incumbent council president Dennis Hanson for the seat in last year’s election, garnering 43 percent of the vote to Hanson’s 51 percent. Thompson received about five percent of the vote as a write-in candidate. Hanson suffered a fatal brain aneurysm in June, but his name was required to remain on the ballot because of a recent change in state law. His postmortem victory necessitated this special election.
Staver, a department head in information technology at the Mayo Clinic, was elected to represent Rochester’s fifth ward in 2010 and selected by his fellow council members to assume the role of interim council president this past July.
Wojcik, first elected to represent Rochester’s second ward in 2008 and re-elected this past November, is a financial analyst – president and owner of Elite Consulting - and consistently the council’s most active and outspoken member.
The election will be held on Tuesday, March 19th. If the candidate with the most votes does not also receive more than 50 percent of the total votes, the two candidates receiving the highest vote totals will advance to a second election on a yet to be determined date.
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