Only about 45% of registered voters showed up to vote in the last 2 Mayoral elections. Over half of this county is too apathetic to even bother. If someone who mattered ran, then you'd get many more additional voters showing up than the 8000 who tipped the scales for Fischer against Heiner. The Republicans didn't put anyone up for election in 2014. The guy who ran against Fischer in 2014 was a school board member from another county who nominated himself the day before the deadline. He had no party