Reiter Decides To Vacate District A Position After Very Narrow Win In 2007!
UPDATE:
Incumbent council member Eunice Reiter of district A made it official tonight and has decided not to seek re-election. After narrowly defeating her opponent in 2007 by just 3 votes, Rodney Griffin, she was reported to have said enough is enough.
The district A council woman was involved in several highly controversial votes over the last 3 years including supporting more apartments in the city and higher taxes on several occasions.
She took a great deal of criticism from the community during her 2007 run for accepting campaign contributions from Houston development companies and then voting on their projects when they came before council. Some credit her comments during 2005 & 2006 sessions and voting approval of up to 2700 apartments in the ETJ community of Sienna Plantation along with ex-council members Don Smith, Bob Burton and current mayor Allen Owen along with Buddy Jimerson as leading to one of her first challenges for her seat in the many years she sat on city council.
MCC endorsed her opponent in 2007 and wishes her well in retirement. The district A seat currently has one challenger with rumors of a second waiting in the wings. Filing closes soon for council and school board positions.
4 comments:
Looks like so far it will be Bobby Marshall, Rodney Griffin and Mike Allen running for Reiter's old seat. Marshall is the hand picked annointed one by the mayor and apparently Reiter, with her Houston special interest backers, have endorsed him too.
Hopefully we will see one of the independent candidates pull through. Griffin lost by only 3 votes in 2007. Good luck Allen & Griffin!
I'm just glad she decided to step down. They really need term limits on that council.
Did the city report a crime increase recently?
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