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Carolyn Goodman smiles as she waits for election results at her campaign headquarters Tuesday, April 5, 2011.
Published Tuesday, April 5, 2011 | 7:43 p.m.
Updated Tuesday, April 5, 2011 | 11 p.m.
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Election Results
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Former private school administrator Carolyn Goodman and Clark County Commissioner Chris Giunchigliani will face off in June to decide who will be the next mayor of Las Vegas.
Goodman, wife of Mayor Oscar Goodman, made it to the general election easily, with 37 percent of the vote, while Giunchigliani secured second place with 17.35 percent of the vote, beating fellow county Commissioner Larry Brown by a scant 15 votes.
Businessman Victor Chaltiel landed fourth with 14 percent of the vote.
City Councilman Steve Ross earned about 6 percent of the vote, placing him in fifth.
Brown said late Tuesday that he will endorse Giunchigliani.
Former state Sen. Bob Coffin and Adriana Martinez, the former Democratic Party chief, are headed to a runoff to represent Las Vegas’ Ward 3.
Meanwhile, the two incumbent council members seeking reelection — Lois Tarkanian and Ricki Barlow — easily retained their seats with each receiving more than 70 percent of the vote in their respective races.
The open Ward 3 race attracted seven candidates for the seat left vacant by longtime Councilman Gary Reese, who retired due to term limits. Coffin edged Martinez by 49 votes, receiving 34 percent of the vote to her 33 percent. Las Vegas Planning Commissioner Steve Evans was a distant third with 22 percent.
Candidates receiving more than 50 percent of the vote are elected outright. Otherwise, the top two vote-getters square off in the general election.
In the Ward 1 race, Tarkanian, who has two challengers, received 74 percent of the vote.
In the Ward 5 race, Barlow, who attracted three challengers, received 73 percent of the vote.
In Municipal Court races, incumbent Judge George Assad will face lawyer Heidi Almase in June to decide the Department 3 race. Assad, who drew five challengers, had 29 percent of the vote; Almase received 19 percent.
Those figures point to a difficult race for Assad. The field challenging Assad mushroomed after police announced Assad’s son had been arrested on charges of robbing a casino. Anthony Carleo is accused of being the “biker bandit” who stole $1.4 million in chips from the Bellagio in December.
In the Department 2 Municipal Court race, Sonny Bonaventure, with 30 percent, and Susan Roger, 38 percent, will advance to the general election.
In Department 5, which drew only two candidates, incumbent Judge Cedric Kerns won by 1099 votes over challenger Bruce Gale.
Well, that's great. I voted for her.
This city will never recover. Most people are too lazy or just don't care enough to change anything.
chris g is a union shill and career politician.
Goodman is just more of the same.
The city had a chance to elect someone with real world experience with chaltiel or harris.
Instead, the few people who do turn out to vote vote for the same old.
I'm all in for Giunchigliani now. And I'll probably have Martinez signs up in my lawn, just as soon as I get a little more info about that seemingly trumped up allegation Coffin's campaign hurled at her (Coffin sent out mailers claiming Channel 8 showed she didn't live in the district, when that wasn't at all the tenor of Channel 8's investigation. Channel 8 seemed doubtful of the charge and Martinez came across as credible.)
Even for the career politician that Coffin is, the guy is drunk on his own self-importance.
You think people will vote for Goodman cause of the issues? Yeah, they're voting for her cause she's a Goodman...
...And I'm increasingly LIKING the prospect of a female coalition of Chris G./Louis T./ and Adriana M. taking over from Oscar and his good ol' boys. With Steve Ross and Riki Barlow already on the council, I foresee some responsible leadership, the likes Las Vegas probably hasn't seen since who knows when.
But make no mistake, Billy Waters, Boyd Gaming, the Fertittas, and all the other Big Monied interests are going to flood the Spouse's campaign with even more money yet, along with incessant mailers and media buys, trying to smash your voice and mine so they can retain their paid-for private government and confiscation of public property. DON'T LET 'EM.
Carolyn may have the name but Chris has got the game. And game on!
This is the match-up we were expecting. Congratulation to Chris. Carolyn Goodman should not have been in this race.
On to the real fight for Mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada. This run-off shouldn't be close, but it will, because of the sweetheart deals with the major's donors to Carolyn Goodman campaign.
Let the fight for integrity and honesty in the Mayor office begin.
What about her history, NevadaFreed? I'm all ears. Get your points out there, using specifics.
Las Vegas is lame...a dead, has been town. Who cares about these dirtbags? The moguls have moed to Asia...Just get a whiff of the smelly carpets in the casinos...smells like warmed over death. Um...Mayor of what?
I've talked to a few firefighters who really LOVE Chris - hmmm, that's enough to make me vote for Carolyn Goodman for sure!
hey carolyn...
a week before the run off election...
flood the media with this...
http://transparentnevada.com/salaries/20...
you win...
in a frickin landslide...
you are welcome...
just make sure you invite me to the celebration party...
This newspaper is very biased. Look at the picture in this article it is a picture of Carolyn Goodman it should be a split picture one of Goodman and Giunchigliani who both won primary. This to me just shows who this paper wants to win. To me they both suck but come on to be fair Sun you should have shown both pictures of the ladies.
when did guinchigliani move to the city,or did she always live there and represent the county from that locale
The numbers clearly show that the voters can't be duped by bill boards when the leading candidate is 71 years old and has never held a public office. 89101 zipcode, has become a blighted zone under Goodman. Only one's who have benefitted are his cronies who are bank rolling his wife's candidacy. Chris G. from what I have read lives in a non gated community and gives a ride home to senior citizens from grocery stores. She is more rooted with an average voter than Carolyn Goodman will ever be. This is a time for an astute voter not to be brainwashed by the goodman machine and vote for a candidate who is younger, smarter and the most qualified to hold this office.
#oscarswife is about to find out how we do it.
#shockandawe
To answer some questions from above, born in Italy, Chris G has lived in Las Vegas since the late '70's. She and her husband live on 15th Street, in the middle of Downtown.
Chris G's volunteers are in it - to win it!
No one has a better ground game in Southern Nevada than the G-Unit ready to knock on every door and take every vote.
When the local media does its job of contrasting the skill, energy, and intellect of the candidates the race will be all Chris G!
Got it. Goodman accepts money from contributors who are her "cronies?"
Does that make neocon Sheldon Adelson one of Chris G's cronies?
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2007/dec...
She took $40,000 from him just a few years ago.
Can her staff tell us if she's accepted any MORE money from the radical right?
Substance over style is to be expected, and that both candidates aren't afraid of the truth is a consequence this city deserves. But, too bad that can't be said of this paper because of its parent; The LVRJ. Its efforts are just not up to par. In fact, with a simple question to the leading candidate of what plans aren't you now sharing with your husband that would move this city forward upon your election, and why; with that simple question being all it would take to frame this contest in ways better than just about any other still going unasked...it's obvious we don't have what we need in a leading paper for this city. We need better, and recent endorsements continuing to show how out of touch reporting efforts are because of an agenda that always ends with CEO's know best...we deserve better...this race is too important to have to suffer this paper's incredibly poor judgement!