Our thanks to all late filing Council Candidates who responded to our dunning reminders, and turned two out of three Council contests into actual election "races," (albeit at the last minute)
The Standard-Examiner reports the final results in the Ogden City 2011 Municipal Election candidate filing process this morning, with a Scott Schwebke story first centering on mayoral candidate Susan Van Hooser, but then meandering through a rundown of other candidates from not only Ogden, but much of the Top of Utah:
For a list which is more concise and locally focused, check out this online Ogden City website doc, which is marked "final" and dated 5:00 p.m., 7/15/2011:
In the days to come, keep your eyes on our ever-expanding right sidebar election module too, where our more detailed Mayoral and Council Candidate Rosters have been and will continue to be updated with online links, news stories and other informative candidate information.
With a grand total of seventeen candidates signed up for the Mayor and Council races, we'll predict a spirited 2011 campaign for all candidates except Council incumbent Caitlin Gochnour, who'll miss out on all the fun, since (barring a late opposition write-in campaign) she will be running unopposed for reelection to her Ward 4 seat .
We'd like to thank all late-filing Council Candidates who responded to our dunning reminders, and turned two out of three Council contests into actual election "races," (albeit at the last minute). And yes, we do believe we have a full slate of quality candidates across the board.
And a Weber County Forum Tip O' the Hat goes out this morning to Ogden City Recorder Cindi Mansell, who worked beyond the call of duty, and delivered all seventeen 2011 Candidate Declarations into our hands for online publication by 5:01 p.m. yesterday.
In closing, we'll also ask the pregnant question: "By a show of hands, how many WCF readers are relieved that Boss Godfrey didn't suddenly change his mind about retirement... and throw his hat into the ring at the last minute?"
The floor's now open for those readers who'd like to chime in or even blow off a little steam.
Update 7/16/11 10:48 a.m.: The Salt Lake Trib's Cathy McKitrick devotes some morning ink to the 2011 Ogden Muni Elections story too:
