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Mark Sanders wins council seat in Eustace
By drawing 69 votes, longtime Capitol campaign consultant Mark Sanders has landed on the city council in the East Texas town of Eustace.
The way it played out, he says, 93 voters cast ballots Saturday to fill three council seats. Under Eustace’s approach, voters could vote for up to three candidates on their ballots and then election officials tallied the number of total votes for each candidate. The top three finishers—Sanders says he ran second in the group—are due to be sworn into office Friday.
(Eustace, turns out, is easy to find, according to the city’s Web site. It’s 12 miles east of Mabank and 11 miles west of Athens.)
Sanders, 45, whose past clients included Carole Keeton Strayhorn, David Dewhurst, Jerry Patterson and Rob Mosbacher Jr., said Monday he’s intent on introducing a code of conduct for council members and the mayor that would require any one of them charged with a felony to resign immediately.
Sanders had made the plunge into life as a candidate after failing to persuade Mayor Laura Ward to resign; she was arrested in September after striking a woman outside a bar in Gun Barrel City.
The code of conduct, Sanders said, “is designed entirely to get rid of the mayor.”
So much for a honeymoon period.
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By Eustace
May 15, 2008 4:21 PM | Link to this
There were a total of 127 votes, 93 election day and 34 early vote. He did not win the early vote at all but did pull it through in the end. I guess that is what counts!
By Michele
May 13, 2008 5:10 PM | Link to this
Nothing ever changes here in Austin. Same old mud slinging comments. This 40 year Republican is sick and tired of it.
By Austin
May 13, 2008 4:48 PM | Link to this
It won’t be long the people of Eustace will realize what type of person he really is. It looks like great is familiar with him as well! So sorry for Eustace, good luck to the people!
By Michele
May 13, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this
Congrats and all that jazz. Glad to see you’re still fighting the good fight.
By great
May 12, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this
Looks like Mark has finally been able to grasp a little bit of power he has always desired. I wonder what he’s planning on using that seat as a microphone for. And when I say microphone, in Eustace it’s probably more of a large tin can with a hole cut in the bottom.