It wasnât the only landslide loss involving an incumbent candidate at the top of the ballot lately, but Mayor Dee Margoâs crushing defeat by former Mayor Oscar Leeser in the Dec. 12 runoff will go down as one for the records.
Margo finished a distant second in the Nov. 3 election, a signal that he would have a hard time winning the runoff unless he did something to turn voter sentiment around.
But after the November election, Margo waited weeks before launching an aggressive runoff campaign.
What Margo didnât want was another one-and-done term, as happened when, running as a Republican, he unseated Democrat Joe Moody in 2010 for District 78 state representative, only then to lose to Moody two years later.
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