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In November 2015, Selby was elected mayor of Olympia, succeeding Stephen Buxbaum who did not run for re-election. She received 70.8 percent of the vote over Marco Rosaire Rossi. Selby, who ran on a platform of redirecting state revenue back to the city, became the third female mayor in the city's history. [3]
[2] [4] She was endorsed by Bateman as well as Olympia Mayor Dontae Payne. [1] In the general election, Parshley defeated Locke, 65.2% to Locke's 34.8%. [6] Although able to serve on the Olympia city council and the House of Representatives at the same time, Parshley chose to resign from the city council to focus her time in the legislature. [7]
Patience Latting, first woman elected mayor of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma [342] [1]: 238 Latting was also the first female mayor of any major U.S. city with more than 350,000 residents. [342] 1973. Lelia Foley was elected the mayor of Taft, Oklahoma. She was the first African American woman to be elected mayor in the United States. [343] 1992
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(The Center Square) – The Olympia City Council is moving ahead with discussions on a potential increase in the minimum wage and the adoption of a Workers’ Bill of Rights that could include ...
Election day is May 6 with a runoff (if necessary) June 10. This year’s election will be the first since both cities went through their 2020 redistricting process. Election day is May 6 with a ...
In 2015, she was elected to the Olympia, Washington City Council and later served as Mayor Pro Tem of Olympia. [8] [9] [10] After Beth Doglio announced that she would not seek re-election to the State House and instead run for Washington's 10th congressional district, Bateman announced her candidacy to succeed her. Bateman placed second in the ...
The current mayor-pro-tem said she’s lived in the town since 1962 and supports the high-rise proposal. Isom first took a seat on Atlantic Beach’s town council in 2009.