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BY HANK MINCKIEWICZ After a months-long, bitter and sometimes nasty campaign, the voters of the city of Riverview decided on Nov. 7 that Mayor Andrew Swift was the best choice to continue to guide the city. Swift, a former Riverview Community School District school board member and a former city councilman, was elected to a third term as mayor by defeating Councilman Chuck Norton by a little over 150 votes. Swift topped Norton 1,614 votes to 1,459. “I am honored and humbled by all the support I’ve received during this election. I look forward to working with the new council members and moving our beloved Riverview forward through the challenging times ahead,” said the newly re-elected Mayor. =Norton and his supporters ran a relentlessly negative campaign, run primarily through Facebook where
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they attacked Swift again and again. The Riverview Register endorsed no candidates in this election and yet Norton and his backers also attacked the paper online and accused it of bias. The paper ran numerous paid advertisements from several candidates, including Swift. Norton was offered a chance to advertise in a face-to-face meeting with the publisher and declined. Late in the campaign an anti-Norton flyer appeared in mailboxes. The flyers urged voted to reject Norton and included a list of alleged misdeeds by the
candidate. Another flyer was critical of two of the council candidates in the race. The voters also elected three council members – Brian Webb, Suzzanne O’Neil and David Pray. Webb led all council vote-getters with 1,785 votes, O’Neil had 1,575 and Pray had 1,280. Former longtime councilman Elmer Trombley (1,031 votes), Nicole Clark (1,028) and Heather Smiley (980) failed to win election. The general election drew just 36.6 percent of Riverview’s registered voters to the polls. The city has 8,546 registered voters and 3,125 of them voted in the election. Another question on the Nov. 7 ballot was a proposal to extend the Sinking Fund for the school district. That fund, which helps pay for things like new HVAC systems, enjoyed overwhelming support from the community as the measure passed by far better than 2-to1 margin, as 2,121 voted to pass the measure and 826 voted against.
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