Two candidates in mayoral runoff next month
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SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) — A mayoral runoff is set for next month in San Angelo to decide who will succeed the previous city leader who resigned and fled to Mexico to be with a man who was in the U.S. illegally.
Alvin New will face John David Fields in a runoff Dec. 15 after garnering the most votes of a seven-candidate field Tuesday.
New polled 5,017 votes, or 47 percent of the ballots. Fields, who served on the City Council, had 2,169 votes, or 20 percent of the vote. A candidate needed a simple voter majority to avoid a runoff.
The winner will succeed J.W. Lown, who resigned unexpectedly May 20, the day he was to be sworn in for a fourth term. The 32-year-old former mayor later said he and his partner went to Mexico so his partner could apply for legal U. S. residency.
