Preliminary election results released Tuesday night indicated Small, a 47-year-old Democrat, was leading GOP nominee Tom Forkin in the Atlantic City mayoral election. With results from the city’s six wards still being counted, but clearly favoring the incumbent, Small said both he and his slate of Democrats — Stephanie Marshall, George Tibbitt and Bruce E. Weekes — had been victorious.
AC Mayor Small Revels in ‘Lucky Number Seven’
Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small has been on a political treadmill since his predecessor got jammed up on corruption charges.
Having weathered the vicissitudes of special elections and a ballot initiative that would have expunged city government as he knows it, Small won reelection last Tuesday to a full, four year-term.
“It’s a great day in the City of Atlantic City,” Small told InsiderNJ.
“It’s been a marathon,” he added, of a series of races that included his tangling with and putting down the one-vaunted Callaway organization.
All told, Small competed in – and won – seven contests in two years:
The primary and general of 2019;
The primary and general special election to supplant the imploded Frank Gilliam, sentenced for stealing nearly $87,000 from a youth basketball program;
The ballot question to change the city’s form of government;
And the primary and general elections this year to win four years in office as mayor.
“Lucky number seven,” Small said. “The voters of Atlantic City have placed their trust in me time and again and I will reward them by putting the taxpayers first. I’m ecstatic.”
From The Press of Atlantic City:
Small announced his victory to those gathered at his headquarters just after 9:31 p.m. and with him leading his closest challenger, Forkin, 3,966 votes to 1,350. Those results included early voting and vote-by-mail-in tallies, which Small also appeared to lead easily. All results were unofficial. With few numbers being reported at the Atlantic County Board of Elections website, Small’s campaign used its network of party supporters to collect and tally numbers.
The mayor plans to celebrate at the League of Atlantic of Municipalities, with a scheduled bash on Nov. 16th at the Pool after Dark at Harrah’s.
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