Marana incumbents retain their seats
Clockwise, from top left: Council members Herb Kai, Jon Post, Patti Comerford and John Officer retained their seats in the 2018 primary election./via Tucson Local Media
The incumbents on the Marana Town Council held onto their seats in last week’s election, knocking back challengers who called for a change in the town’s leadership.
Councilmember Patti Comerford received more votes than anybody in the seven-candidate race. And like the other three long-time incumbents, she didn’t even raise money for her campaign. She mostly used her signs from old campaigns and spent $170 out of pocket, as of the August campaign finance report, which didn’t include a flyer that went out. As of deadline, Comerford pulled in roughly 5,400 votes.
All four incumbents teamed up to produce a joint campaign flyer in August featuring a plea from Mayor Ed Honea asking voters to re-elect the incumbents—a request that all the incumbents and the mayor were pretty vocal about throughout the campaign.
