The candidate for Ward 1 alderman: Mike Crews, challenger, and incumbent Frank Edwards.
Voters next month will elect a new Springfield City Council.
In addition to the position of mayor, city clerk and city treasurer, all 10 aldermanic seats are on the April 5 ballot.
Former mayoral candidates Bill McCarty and Mike Farmer will endorse Mike Houston for mayor in the April general election, they announced Wednesday, March 9, 2011. Jason Piscia/SJ-R.com
Former mayoral candidates Mike Farmer and Bill McCarty both endorsed Mike Houston for the city’s top job Wednesday, and Houston said that, in “Team of Rivals” fashion, he would have both of his former competitors in his cabinet.
Sen. Dick Durbin, who played a major role in the election of Barack Obama and is a known backer of Chicago Mayor-elect Rahm Emmanuel is prominently backing Sheila Stocks-Smith for Springfield’s mayor.
Durbin is a major part of the “Chicago way” or machine. The same Chicago machine that has bankrupted the nation, Cook County, Chicago and Illinois by extreme tax-and-spend policies, while denying citizens liberty by massive overregulation.
