Mayor pulls papers for re-election bid
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More than 200 people showed up for the ceremony that Mayor Brent Ives presided over. Glenn Moore/Tracy Press
More than 200 people showed up for the ceremony that Mayor Brent Ives presided over. Glenn Moore/Tracy Press
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According to the Tracy city clerk’s office, Mayor Brent Ives has pulled papers to run for re-election this fall.

Ives, who is serving his second two-year term as the city’s mayor, now must gather the signatures of 20 registered voters within the city limits and return them — along with a $25 filing fee — by Aug. 6 to officially be placed on the Nov. 2 ballot.

Ives is so far running unopposed, according to assistant city clerk Carole Fleischmann. If he is elected this year, Ives will be able to serve one more two-year term after that, as Tracy’s term limits initiative — Measure T, passed by voters in 2008 — does not take effect until the 2010 election.

City Council candidates have also been busy since the filing period officially opened July 12.

Six out of eight council campaigners have pulled their papers and started the petition process.

Bob Elliott, Larry Gamino, Larry Hite, Pete Mitracos, Robert Rickman and Jass Sangha have all pulled their papers, and Fleischmann said that the other two, Juana Dement and Nancy Young, have told her they intend to follow suit in the next couple of days.

Like mayoral hopefuls, council candidates have until Aug. 6 to return their paperwork, although if incumbent Councilwomen Suzanne Tucker and Evelyn Tolbert decide not to defend their council seats, that filing deadline will be extended to Aug. 11.

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comments (30)
« TomBenigno wrote on Tuesday, Jul 27 at 07:18 AM »
Chickenhawk:

Still holding your breath?
« HawkEyes2see wrote on Monday, Jul 26 at 03:26 PM »
TomBenigno,

I'm glad to hear it.
« TomBenigno wrote on Monday, Jul 26 at 09:56 AM »
ch:

I guess you will have a long wait.
« HawkEyes2see wrote on Sunday, Jul 25 at 03:43 PM »
TomBenigno,

I can hardly wait.
« TomBenigno wrote on Sunday, Jul 25 at 03:25 PM »
Neighbor:

Anything is possible.
« ConcernedNeighbor wrote on Sunday, Jul 25 at 10:41 AM »
Tom Benigno, think you can run for Mayorship since you have heavy knowledge of political ins and outs of Tracy?

History, too, seeing how the Measure A hurt Tracy?

By turning away so many potentials and possibilities of bringing in employment to Tracy so Tracyites wouldn't have far to go to work?

Maybe as a Mayor you could get McNerney to do more for Tracy and Vets (for real!)?

The other person I hope will consider running, is Abercrombie. Up to Tracy.

Good luck.

Tracy needs to come out of its vortex of stagnation due Measure A.

What happens if a bowl of water is still too long, it evaporates or gets stagnate..... might find some undesirables in it, too.

CN

« HawkEyes2see wrote on Sunday, Jul 25 at 10:16 AM »
TomBenigno,

If it's not a Disney film it probably won't make the Roku queue.

You haven't convinced me of the need to see that.

Is it really that important to you?
« TomBenigno wrote on Sunday, Jul 25 at 07:55 AM »
Chickenhawk:

You sound like the WATER BOY'S mother. Do you recall the movie? If not pick it up at a movie rental place.

What your saying is you don't have the guts to run for mayor. That means you support Ive's.

I feel sorry for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!
« HawkEyes2see wrote on Saturday, Jul 24 at 10:37 PM »
Tom Benigno,

I'm not requesting funds from you. A wise man once told me never to accept any "wooden nickels". Don't you think he meant never make a deal with the devil?

« TomBenigno wrote on Saturday, Jul 24 at 07:33 PM »
Chickenhawk:

No one had the guts to run. How about you, the offer still stands? If you read the ballot it's some of the same old people. New face's for a better place.
« HawkEyes2see wrote on Saturday, Jul 24 at 07:23 PM »
Tom Benigno,

Didn't you offer to pay the fees for anyone who wants to run? How many people did you pay?
« TomBenigno wrote on Saturday, Jul 24 at 04:55 PM »
Complainer:

Don't get cute, you know where this is going. No I'm saying someone is pressuring others not to run.

Ms. Tolbert ran last time to take votes away from Celeste. Get someone to run against Ive's or just stop complaining after he wins in November.
« ImNotAComplainer wrote on Saturday, Jul 24 at 04:01 PM »
Tom Benigno,

Didn't you run for mayor? Are you saying people paid off people who ran for mayor?
« TomBenigno wrote on Saturday, Jul 24 at 03:12 PM »
Whomever:

It sure seems funny that no one is opposing Ive's for mayor. We need someone to run against him,if for nothing else but to make him spend some money.

Those in his corner, don't have much money to support him this times around.

Why isn't Tolbert running this time, or Garamendi? Who bought off who guys? Please don't let his followers intimidate anyone from running against him. We need new blood.

« mnwild wrote on Friday, Jul 23 at 03:48 PM »
FTUD, thanx for the chuckle!
« fortheunderdog wrote on Friday, Jul 23 at 11:00 AM »
Steve Abercrombie should take out an application and run against Ives. To me, he's the only one on the city council stands a good chance of besting Ives.

The rest of the city council should be voted out of office when their term expires.

INAC...that driver was probably me. I was in a hurry to get home and complain some more. Dang, I hate not having anything to bitch about.
« apathy wrote on Thursday, Jul 22 at 11:22 PM »
For a guy/gal who professes, 'ImNotAComplainer', you sure complained an awful lot in you last entry! Think they call that the 'pot calling the kettle black'.
« ImNotAComplainer wrote on Thursday, Jul 22 at 09:19 PM »
Below my comment is a list of complainers. Instead they complain about a slogan, but can't come up with anything better. Under every article they spend their days and nights typing the same boorish complaints. The city logo is not to my liking. This that and the other. I saw one of these people the other day driving his sports car. He was rude and cut someone off at an intersection. Didn't even look back. Probably in a hurry to get home and complain some more. You wait and see. Some people would bitch about not having anything to bitch about. That's not new news.
« usn-cmc wrote on Thursday, Jul 22 at 08:11 PM »
The whole triangle-thing makes no sense unless you happen to look at a map and see that Tracy sits inside a triangle of 205, 580 and 5. It certainly doesn't 'pop', which IMO is what a 'brand' is supposed to do. Especially for the amount of money spent.
« thegreenlantern wrote on Thursday, Jul 22 at 07:27 PM »
Think Inside the Triangle is fine. It's much better than any other slogan we ever had before.

I'm sorry to disappoint the complainers here, but the Tank slogan had to go.


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