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Waiting for the other shoe to drop?

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RE: Waiting for the other shoe to drop?

January 15th, 2009 @ 10:49AM (15 years ago)

Please read the following...there's a bit of bad news in it for everyone who dislikes Jerry:

67C.105 Qualifications, election, title, and powers of mayor -- Procedure for filling vacancy in office of mayor.

(2) The mayor shall be nominated and elected in partisan elections for a term of four (4) years in the same election years as other local government officials as regulated by the regular election laws of the Commonwealth. The mayor shall assume office on the first Monday in January following his or her election. He or she shall serve until a successor qualifies and may serve for no more than three (3) consecutive terms after which time he or she shall be prohibited from running for election or being appointed as mayor for a period of at least four (4) years.

I'm sure the text is easy enough to read...but pay attention to the last sentence. It means that Jerry can run for one more term, sit out for an election, then run for THREE more terms after that. There is no maximum amount of time the mayor can serve, simply three terms in a row, then sit out one. I guarantee the big headed one planned things this way when the legislation to allow merger was written.