Four Edmonds City Council incumbents have filed to run in the coming election, while one is not running.
Four-year terms will be on the ballot for the positions held by Joan Bloom, Diane Buckshnis, Thomas Mesaros and Lora Petso, as will the last two years of the term that Councilman Mike Nelson holds by appointment.
Bloom announced last week that she wouldn’t run for a second term, but Buckshnis, Mesaros, Nelson and Petso have filed to run.
Buckshnis has filed for a second four-year term. She joined the council by appointment in 2010 before winning a full term in 2011. She had no announced opponent as of Thursday afternoon.
Filing continues through Friday afternoon.
Mesaros and Nelson also have no announced opponents for the positions that they hold by appointment.
Mesaros will be seeking a full term plus the last month of the term that former Councilman Frank Yamamoto won in 2011. The Council appointed Mesaros to replace Yamamoto in 2014.
Nelson will run for the last two years of the term that former Councilman Strom Peterson won in 2013, before Peterson resigned early this year to start the term in the legislature that he won in 2014.
Petso does have an opponent. He’s Neil Tibbott, who was an applicant early this year when the council chose Nelson to replace Peterson. Petso joined the council by appointment in 2010 and won a full term in 2011.
Two candidates have filed to replace Bloom. One is retired Qwest Communications Public Policy Director David Teitzel, who also was an applicant to replace Peterson. The other is Alicia Crank, a manager with a Seattle non-profit organization.
One expected candidate, Deputy Snohomish County Prosecuting Attorney Adam Cornell, said Thursday that he won’t run. Cornell, an unsuccessful applicant to replace Peterson, had said in February that he planned to run.
Positions with three or more candidates appear on the August primary ballot, with the top two vote getters advancing to the November general election. Positions with only one or two candidates appear only on the November ballot.
Evan Smith can be reached at schsmith@frontier.com.
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