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Mayor's race heating up in Camden
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| Contributor | RBH |
| Last Edited | RBH Feb 03, 2009 02:41am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Courier-Post, The (NJ) |
| News Date | Monday, February 2, 2009 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Now that the buzz over the presidential election has died down, political gossip in the city has turned to this year's race for mayor.
It's still more than nine months before the general election on Nov. 3, but seven candidates -- four partisan and three independent -- have already picked up petitions to run. The names of all those who received petitions could not be confirmed.
The city's incumbent mayor, Gwendolyn Faison, said she still hasn't decided whether to run for a third term. Faison, 83, was appointed in 2000 to take over for Milton Milan, who stepped down on corruption charges.
"My community and residents are putting a lot of pressure on me to run because they know I'm not corrupt and I have integrity," she said.
City Council President Angel Fuentes said he was flattered by residents' support but had decided not to run.
Fuentes, 47, has been on city council since 1994 and served as council president since 2000. He lost a race for mayor in 2006.
"Who knows, maybe down the road," he said. "Not this year."
Instead, Fuentes said, he was supporting Dana Redd, council vice president and state senator. |
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