Fate of last seat on Mount Vernon City Council rests on 1 vote
News 12 Staff
Updated on: Jul 22, 2021, 2:26am
The fate of the last seat on the Mount Vernon City Council rests on one vote.
There were 4,679 votes in Mount Vernon s City Council election, with three seats up for grab.
There is just one vote that separates the next city council member and the fourth-place finisher
Political newcomer Caitlin Gleason currently leads former Mayor Andre Wallace by a single vote for the final seat on the council.
The race was so close that for the first time, the Board of Elections had to recount every single ballot by hand.
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That was unusual for a chief, yet Westchester County prosecutors decided not to pursue criminal charges.
But a city press release last week announcing Ziadie s vindication may have gone too far. New Westchester District Attorney Mimi Rocah on Thursday emphasized what the press release did not.
She said that prosecutors under her predecessor were not condoning Ziadie s actions, just that they couldn t prove criminal charges beyond a reasonable doubt.
But Ziadie insisted Friday he did nothing wrong, saying he worked in an understaffed command structure, for a demanding mayor who required him to report at all hours. I think I did a damn good job, he said. I wasn t trying to rip off the city.Crime was low when I was chief and the relationship was strong with the community because I was always out there.
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