Boulder City Mayor Roger Tobler earned a second term on Tuesday night, while Rod Woodbury and Peggy Leavitt joined the City Council. In an impressive primary election turnout, 4,517 of Boulder City’s 9,489 voters cast their ballots, dwarfing participation by their neighbors in Las Vegas and Henderson.
All eight candidates for Boulder City Council and mayor have filed their campaign finance reports with the city clerk, and they show a striking disparity among the candidates’ ability to raise money.
The last filing day for elections in Boulder City saw three last candidates throw their names in the hat: Lynn Goya and Sherman Rattner filed as candidates for City Council, and Zach Inman will run for mayor.
Boulder City Councilwoman Linda Strickland filed on Tuesday to run for mayor in June’s general election. Strickland, who was elected in 2007, is the only opponent so far for Mayor Roger Tobler, who announced his candidacy for re-election in December.
The Nevada Supreme Court issued a stay Tuesday for a recall election of two Boulder City Council members until an appeal of a lower court ruling can be heard. Petitioners are seeking a recall election for Boulder City Council members Linda Strickland and Travis Chandler.
By Kyle B. Hansen, Jeremy Twitchell, Torey Van Oot
Polls have closed across Southern Nevada as voters decided races in five Clark County municipalities. County Registrar Larry Lomax said turnout was light. By 3 p.m., 8,563 voters had cast a ballot in the five county municipalities, including Mesquite. In Clark County, 277,253 people are eligible to vote in this election.
People are gathering in a back room of the library, where an aging flag hangs haphazardly along the wall and an old upright piano calls a back corner home.
The race for Boulder City Council will be run with one of the candidates out of town until early voting begins. Candidate Bill Smith, who served on the council from 1997 to 2001, left April 23 for a three-week-long vacation that includes a cruise to Europe.
Joe Roche, one of the losing candidates for Boulder City Council in Tuesday’s primary, said he will likely ask for a recount of votes cast for winner Duncan McCoy in hopes that enough errors are found to qualify Roche for a June runoff election.
The candidates running for Boulder City Council have raised as much as $22,000 in campaign contributions and as little as nothing through the first three months of the year, according to just-released campaign expense reports. Combined, the candidates raised $57,303 in cash donations and another $10,534 in in-kind donations, the reports said.
As the 2009 municipal primaries draw near, candidates and election clerks around Clark County are seeking to capitalize on the buzz generated by the 2008 presidential election. They hope to draw thousands of newly registered voters into local politics. Through the first 10 days of the 14-day early voting period in Clark County's five municipalities, however, the desired bounce in voter turnout has failed to materialize.
Boulder City Council candidate Cam Walker says he's proud of his part in helping develop the Las Vegas Monorail, despite a recent newspaper ad that takes aim at him for his involvement in the project that was plagued after it opened by mechanical problems and lackluster ridership and revenue numbers.
