Young and old, winners focus on residents
Jeremy Moss had good reason to be confident Tuesday night as he sat in the Southfield pavilion, awaiting election results.
Jeremy Moss had good reason to be confident Tuesday night as he sat in the Southfield pavilion, awaiting election results.
In his first bid for public office, the youngest candidate at age 25 on the Southfield ballot for city council led a field of eight hopefuls.
Jeremy Moss took 17.06 percent of the vote, showing that voters liked his message that stressed his youth and his experience working for state legislators.
All elections are important, but this year's Southfield City Council election is critical because four candidates will be chosen. That means the majority of the council seats will be filled on Nov. 8.
Jeremy Moss, just 25 years old, is a lifelong resident of the city.
“I’ve seen how our city government works from several different levels,” he said. “For the past 20 or 30 years, we’ve been running the same government with some of the same people in charge. This is a chance for a fresh start to what we’re doing, because I don’t think our model is working.
[The following is a South Oakland Eccentric editorial]
The Southfield City Council has what may be bigger problems on its hands than whether to accept a federal grant to hire police, or even how to balance the budget. It's that bad.
If Tuesday’s primary election is any indication, the oldest city councilman in the state of Michigan could very well get another term in office.
Twelve candidates for the Southfield City Council were whittled down to eight in the Aug. 2 primary election.
Four seats are open, with three current City Council members hoping to remain and one former council member seeking a return, along with eight other interested candidates.
The UAW Region 1 this week endorsed Jeremy Moss to serve on Southfield's City Council.
The endorsement is a major boost to Moss’s already aggressive campaign for one of the four City Council seats that expire this year.