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Timing, cash, shoe leather win City Hall
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker Feb 04, 2006 11:10pm |
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| Category | General |
| Media | Newspaper - Arizona Republic (Phoenix) |
| News Date | Sunday, February 5, 2006 05:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | In Tempe, the early bird not only feasts on the worm -- that chick could win an election.
Up to 75 percent of the ballots cast in city elections are made before election day. But timing is just part of the formula when a candidate hopes to clinch a City Council seat. Money, shoe leather, key neighborhoods and a civic resume also come into play, experts say.
Five candidates have hit the campaign trail, hoping to win one of three City Council seats. The candidates include incumbents Ben Arredondo and Len Copple, and three challengers: Tempe Community Council Assistant Director Shana Ellis; researcher Onnie Shekerjian and Arizona State University graduate student Corey Woods.
With only two council members in the race, at least one of the political newcomers will snag a seat.
It would be a mistake for any of the candidates to save their "A" game for the end of the campaign, Councilman Hut Hutson says. When election day rolls around March 14, he said, the race will already essentially be over.
Hutson ran against attorney Augustus Shaw in a May 2004 runoff. At the polls, Shaw clobbered Hutson, winning 1,206 votes on election day compared with Hutson's 764. But once all of the early ballots were counted -- ones sent by mail or cast at the Tempe Public Library before election day - Hutson was the victor. He won the race, 5,788 to Shaw's 5,501. |
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