The interesting thing to note in the article of eight years ago is that incumbents have a much higher chance of re-election than a new name on the ballot…even if the ‘incumbent’ is a recently appointed council ‘newbie’. And history may be close to repeating itself if one current council member chooses to resign and the new ‘hat-in-the-ring’ candidate gets an ‘appointment’. I don’t think I am going to be too surprised, and don’t think ‘you’ should be either.    

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