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Unlike 2001, this year's (Annapolis, MD) mayoral race a quiet one
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| Contributor | U Ole Polecat |
| Last Edited | U Ole Polecat Aug 15, 2005 06:37am |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Newspaper - Baltimore Sun |
| News Date | Sunday, August 14, 2005 12:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | from the article:
The Democratic incumbent, a Republican challenger and an independent will appear on the ballot in November.
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The incumbent mayor, Democrat Ellen O. Moyer, has by far the largest campaign fund. Recent campaign finance statements revealed that she had raised about $94,000 as of Aug. 2 to spend on such things as staff, placards and radio ads.
Moyer - who served on the city council for 14 years before becoming mayor and whose former husband, Roger "Pip" Moyer, was an Annapolis mayor - averted a primary challenge when a local minister didn't file.
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Her two challengers suggested that the city's development strategy has been too aggressive.
"Our city is buckling at the seams," said Alderman George O. Kelley Sr., a Republican. "We're challenged to find remedies for this complex situation. We have to look at how fast we are developing."
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Kelley, who spent much of his political career as a Democrat, switched parties early this year at a news conference attended by Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele, the state's first black lieutenant governor.
Steele stressed at the time that Kelley, who is also black, illustrated the GOP's growing diversity.
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Gilbert Renaut, a lawyer with the U.S. Department of Energy who is running as an independent because the federal Hatch Act bars federal employees from running as Democrats or Republicans, said party politics should have little to do with city issues.
Renaut, 58, said that after weighing his options this summer, he decided to run because "we're going in the wrong direction in a lot of ways." |
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