Mayor bows to reality on Council special election
The Chronicle's Kristen Mack reports that Mayor White has set a May election date to fill the seat once held by Doctor-former Congresswoman Shelley Sekula Gibbs, who resigned her seat to go to Washington for a few weeks:
Giving up on efforts to delay the vote until November, Mayor Bill White today called a May 12 special election to fill the City Council seat vacated by Councilwoman Shelley Sekula-Gibbs when she resigned in November for a brief stint in the U.S. House.
White had hoped for a change in state law to let the city wait until November's regular election to fill the seat, avoiding the cost of a special election that he estimated could cost as much as $4 million.
As the the [sic] legislative session opened this week, however, White realized that he did not have the support of Harris County legislators to push the change through.
Given the speed with which the state government would have had to move on the mayor's request, it was always highly unlikely that he was going to be able to postpone this election. His Boss Hogg White act simply doesn't play in Austin like it does here in town.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 01/10/07 05:36 PM | Houston Politics | Print | Comments (10)
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