No Primary Battles in City Council Race
Four candidates are seeking three seats, but the real race won't happen until November.
Anyone looking for a race for Easton City Council will have to wait until November.
Four candidates are seeking three seats on council in this year's election. Two of them are incumbents—Sandra Vulcano of the South Side and College Hill's Roger Ruggles—who appear to be unopposed.
Both Vulcano and Ruggles are Democrats. Ruggles had been a Republican when he was elected in 2009, but has recently switched parties, meaning the current council is made entirely of Democrats.
The other two candidates are newcomers both seeking the West Ward seat that will be left vacant by Councilman Michael Fleck: Kim Yedlosky* and Jim Eddinger.
But because Eddinger is a Democrat and Yedlosky is a Republican, they have no opposition until the fall election.
Fleck announced earlier this year he would step down at the end of his term in order to devote more time to his family and to his political consulting firm.
*This candidate's name was misspelled in an earlier version of the story.
Ronnie DelBacco
9:08 am on Friday, March 15, 2013
Dear Democrats,
Glad to see that you've added another untrustworthy politician to the ranks of Easton's nepotistic Democratic leadership. Before you thank Roger Ruggles for switching parties remember Arlen Spector. These unprincipled politicians who start out registered one way, then later switch parties often have their own self interests in mind...not the public they have sworn to serve. I feel the same way about life-long democrats who switch to the republican party after years as a democrat. Ask yourselves, "Would I , could I ever join the opposite party...and for what good reason?"
I have voted for democrats, and I know some of you have voted for republicans. That's a lot different than completely switching parties altogether. The ideologies are too far apart. If I were you, I'd be as weary of re-electing Ruggles as a democrat as I was of Arlen when he was pretending to be a republican.
This is a joyous announcement! I am personally glad to see Ruggles leave the republican party....finally!
Now if he could only convince other RINOs, like Peg Ferraro to switch too.
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