This afternoon, sources at Dearborn City Hall told us there were rumblings from within the office of City Clerk Kathleen Buda that there might be a reversal from the earlier decision denying Doug Thomas' petitions for a run at the mayor's office this year. As we reported earlier in the week, it appeared that the councilman's bid for higher office was derailed due to problems with his petitions. Another mayoral challenger, Ziad Abdulhamid Abdulmalik, was also kept out of the race for similar reasons. Our sources told us that Thomas' name might make a last minute appearance on the mayoral primary ballot with incumbent John B. O'Reilly Jr. and challenger Michael Prus on August 4th.
However, after today's 4:00pm withdrawal deadline, there are no changes to the primary ballot. Councilman Doug Thomas will not make a run for mayor, but is defending his council seat.
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Guess we could use a little excitment around the city. It will be very interesting if Doug is indeed able to run to find out what the so-called problems were with the petitions.
ReplyDeleteMuch ado about nothing, isn't it? I mean, even if Thomas got his name on the ballot the result would still be the same: O'Reilly in a Landslide.
ReplyDeleteThe bigger, better story is that he may withdraw from his council run. That would be great for everyone.
Will or won't he and does it really matter? THAT is the question.
ReplyDeleteApparently, he won't. And you're right. It doesn't matter at all.
ReplyDeleteThe most common problem Donna is that there probably wasn't enough correct sigatures to match what is on file.
ReplyDeleteI would like to believe that people are honest enough to only sign if they are registered voters and the candidates are smart enough to get at least 3 times the number of signatures that they actually need to file.
ReplyDeleteDonna,
ReplyDeleteI was told you have to have at least 100, but no more than 200. So 2X.
I went to the pet store yesterday and in my bag when I got home was a little white envelope from one of the candidates with 4 little dog cookies inside. Any meaning to that?
ReplyDeleteGood way to get the pet owner vote.
ReplyDeleteNot sure about that my dog would eat the cookies guess she can't be bribed.
ReplyDeleteSorry, left out the word not - my dog would not eat the cookies.
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