Charles Samuels is the new 2nd District Council Representative, winning 45% of the vote in a 3-way race. Kim Gray is the new school board rep, with a decisive margin over Lisa Dawson. Pantele is out.

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Charles Samuels, candidate for the 2nd District City Council seat, announced today his campaign’s plans for a victory celebration. Supporters and members of the media are encouraged to join Samuels at the Robin Inn at 2601 Park Avenue in the Fan after the polls close tomorrow at 7PM.

This seems like an interesting time to revisit the Virginia Public Access Project, a non-profit group the makes it easy to access the public records of who has donated how much to a candidate for office.

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This week’s RVA News question for the candidates:

“What do you consider to be Richmond’s greatest asset? What do you consider to be its greatest liability?”

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Q. If you support the proposed Downtown Master Plan and if you are elected, what specifically will you do to ensure the plan is implemented? If you oppose the proposed Downtown Master Plan and if you are elected, what steps will you take to correct, change or modify the plan?

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Two of the three candidates for the 2nd District City Council seat have been racking up the endorsements. Charles Samuels has been endorsed by outgoing 2nd District representative and mayoral candidate Bill Pantele, the Richmond Crusade For Voters, the Henrico-based Richmond Association of Realtors, and the Coalition for Greater Richmond; Tyron Bey has been endorsed by the Richmond Education Association.

More than 100,000 people rallied at Green Jobs Now events across the country “to urge leaders to jump start the clean energy economy [and] create real energy solutions that build a new green economy strong enough to create millions of green jobs and lift people out of poverty”. Twenty or so of the 100,000 were at Smith-Peters Park (900 Catherine Street) today, marking Richmond’s commitment to the creation of clean jobs as a boon to both the environment and the local economy.

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One of the three City Council candidates for the 2nd district have submitted their responses to the 2nd in a series of weekly questions put to them by RVA News (last week). The question: What are two qualities that people who know you well might say make you suited for the office you seek?”

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Two of the three City Council candidates for the 2nd district have submitted their responses to the first in a series of weekly questions put to them by RVANews. The question: List five initiatives that you believe are more important than finding a new baseball team for the City of Richmond.

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The Richmond Crusade for Voters held a public forum for the candidates for city council this evening at the Military Retirees Club on Chamberlayne Avenue. Recurring issues among the 18 candidates running for the 9 seats were economic development and affordable housing, with public safety and education coming up as well. The three candidates for the 2nd Distric seat being vacated by mayoral candidate Bill Pantele began to really differentiate themselves when asked how to handle the impending redevelopment of Gilpin Court.

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The Richmond Free Press is reporting that “Charles R. Samuels, an attorney and former president of the Fan District Association [...] is running and plans to submit his paperwork before the deadline.” Tyrone Bey has already announced his intention to seek the city council seat being vacated by Pantele in his bid to become mayor.