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Dec 20, 2020
Dec 20, 2020
JEERS to the urge to avoid a messy election, circumventing democracy, in picking someone to serve the remaining year of Lawrence Mayor Daniel Riveraâs second term.
The City Councilâs Ordinance and Intergovernmental Relations Committee is set to meet tomorrow to talk about seeking state permission to dodge a city charter requirement to hold a special election for mayor.
Rivera, elected to his first term in 2013, would be headed into his final year in office were he not recently named CEO of the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency. He addressed the council last week, formally giving notice of his resignation as of Friday, Jan. 8.