In an upset, Pontiac s incumbent Mayor Deirdre Waterman finished third at best in her city s primary election Tuesday night, as her write-in campaign for a third term came up short.
With all precincts reporting, former state representative Tim Greimel received 3,282 votes (for 56.3%) and Alexandria T. Riley tallied 1,319 (22.6%), making them the two top voters by a considerable margin. That tally would pit them against one another in November s non-partisan general election. Pontiac was the only city in Oakland County that held a primary election this month.
Waterman appeared to run no better than a distant third, based on a count of 724 votes (12.4%) for unassigned write-ins, most of which presumably supported her. The two-term incumbent the city’s first female mayor, and its first mayor to win a second term in decades was forced to seek her third term as a write-in candidate because of a recently changed state law.
Metro Detroit voters hit polls in modest numbers with key races to be decided
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Absentee voting remains popular in Michigan s largest cities
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Wayne County clerk backtracks on Duggan eligibility for ballot
Detroit The Wayne County clerk on Tuesday walked back her finding from a day earlier that Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan had missing campaign finance documents with her office, saying the filings are in order in a move that would allow the city clerk to clear him for the ballot.
Cathy Garrett cited a miscommunication in a statement late Tuesday and said she s found that Duggan s campaign finance documents were in order by the filing deadline for the August primary. A legal challenge was filed Monday arguing he was ineligibile for the ballot.
Steven Yeun gives shoutout to Taylor, Michigan, during Oscar telecast
At Sunday night s Oscars, Taylor, Michigan, received an unexpected shoutout from a former resident.
Best Actor nominee Steven Yeun, while presenting the award for Best Visual Effects, told a story about seeing Terminator 2: Judgment Day at a theater in Taylor with his mother in 1991.
Yeun, who graduated from Troy High School in 2003, lived in Taylor for a brief time before his family moved to Troy. When I was 7, living in Taylor, Michigan, my mother took me to watch Terminator 2 at the theaters. I m pretty sure she didn t know what the movie was about, Yeun said. And to her and my surprise, we got to see some.