Urice May Run Again For Council

I have just finished watching the Comcast show, "In Our Opinion". For those of you who don't know about this shows it features Lynn Waller and Joel Urice talking about various issues happening in our city.

On tonight's show, Waller asked Urice if he plans on attempting to fill the vacant Common Council seat left open because of Ted Cutsumpas' resignation. Urice was elected to the Council in 2003, part of the Republicans takeover of Danbury. However, he was one of the three Republican Councilman to loose their bid for a second term in 2005. Urice represented the sixth ward.

Now, Urice told Waller that he doesn't plan on filling the vacant seat because that means he would have to resign his position on the Planning Commission. But he added that he "may run in the fall". It will be interesting if he does plan on running, and whether he will run in the sixth ward or at-large.

The following are the results from the sixth ward Council race in 2003:

*Michael J. Steinerd (R) -- 749
*Joel Urice (R) -- 707
Paul T. Rotello (D) -- 687
Valdemiro D. Machado (D) -- 622

The following are the results from the sixth ward in 2005:

*Paul T. Rotello (D) -- 770
*Benjamin Chianese (D) -- 727
Joel Urice (R) -- 637
Christopher A. Sanzeni(R) -- 617

Note that Paul Rotello lost by only twenty votes in 2003, and then led all sixth ward candidates in 2005, earning a victory. We will have to wait and see what happens.