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BALTIMORE VOTES 12 THE BALTIMORE NEWS BALTIMORE CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 1DEM PRIMARY 19 of 19 Jason Kahler x-James Kraft Helene Luce BALTIMORE CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 2 DEM PRIMARY 18 of 18 Sharita Daniels Cynthia Gross Emmett Anthony Hamilton Brandon Scott Jamaal Simpson BALTIMORE CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 3 DEM PRIMARY 20 of 20 Jerome Bivens x-Robert Curran George Vanhook BALTIMORE CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 4 DEM PRIMARY 20 of 20 Scherod Barnes Bill Henry BALTIMORE CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 5 DEM PRIMARY 18 of 18 Scott Carberry Luke Durant Curtis Jones Derrick Lennon x-Rochelle Spector BALTIMORE CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 6 DEM PRIMARY 21of 22 Mark Hughes x-Sharon Green Middleton Rhonda Wimbish BALTIMORE CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 7 DEM PRIMARY 21of 24 Henry Brim Belinda Conaway Allen Hicks Timothy Mercer Nick Mosby BALTIMORE CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 8 DEM PRIMARY 17 of 17 Haki Ammi x-Helen Holton Dayvon Love David Smallwood BALTIMORE CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 9 DEM PRIMARY 23 of 23 Janet Bailey Abigail Breiseth John Bullock Quianna Cooke Derwin Hannah Michael Johnson Waymon LeFall Chris Taylor x-William Welch BALTIMORE CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 10 DEM PRIMARY 18 of 18 Bill Marker x-Edward Reisinger Erica White BALTIMORE CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 12 DEM PRIMARY 23 of 23 Devon Brown Jason Curtis Ertha Harris Jermaine Jones Odette Ramos Frank Richardson x-Carl Stokes BALTIMORE CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 13 DEM PRIMARY 21of Kimberly Armstrong Warren Branch Antonio Glover Gamaliel Harris Shannon Sneed in a plea deal to settle corruption charges. The fact that she elected to the office inspired an unusually high number of serious challengers. But Democrats said her calm demeanor in the face of crises the pair of blizzards that greeted her arrival in office, followed by two years of budget shortfalls and, most recently, an earthquake and a hurricane inspired confidence. want to give her a full Angela Lyles, 46, said after voting in East Baltimore. needs to get a fair Democratic voters also backed City Council President Bernard C.

Young, who was appointed by his colleagues after Rawlings-Blake became mayor. Young trounced a field that included Thomas Kiefaber, former owner of the Senator Theatre. State Sen. Catherine E. Pugh, former city planning director Otis P.

Rolley, former Greater Baltimore Board of Realtors Vice President Joseph T. Landers and Clerk of Court Frank M. Conaway Sr. sought to turn the mayoral primary into a referendum on leadership. The challengers tried to paint her as the latest representative of an establishment that had been unable to make the city safe, maintain public schools or grow the economy.

They said she was too tightly allied with the wealthy developers who backed her campaign and lacked the political independence to reverse decades of decline. But the field split the anti-incumbent vote, bolstering Rawlings-Blake. sort of chops up the vote into little slivers of the said Lenneal Henderson, senior fellow in the William Donald Schaefer School of Public Affairs at the University of Baltimore. Pugh, who came in second to Rawlings- Blake, struck a defiant tone before a crowd of about 200 supporters. believe leadership needs to Pugh said.

can do better, and the reality is we have to do Pugh told reporters her campaign have enough to get out its message. entered the race knowing we were climbing she said. Pugh, who began her political career representing West Baltimore on the City Council, positioned herself as a candidate who possessed a vision for the city that she said Rawlings-Blake lacked. Mike Perkins, 61, who voted at Hazelwood Elementary Middle School in West Baltimore, said Pugh was the best alternative to Rawlings-Blake. need some he said.

Blake is a rubber Pugh retains her seat in the state Senate. She is due to head back to Annapolis next month for a special session on congressional redistricting. Rolley, 37, finished third. During the campaign, he kept up a steady drumbeat of criticism of Rawlings-Blake, and rolled out position papers detailing wide-ranging reform proposals for city government. He told supporters that he was disappointed with the low turnout.

He called the end of his campaign the of a campaign to take our city Dan Lozier, a 29-year-old software engineer in Canton, said he liked the plans Rolley presented on his website. really detailed what he wanted to Lozier said. He said website compared favorably to the campaign material, which he found to be as generic as it Landers made the property tax rate a central issue in the campaign. The city rate is twice that of surrounding counties. Landers proposed a drastic reduction, which he said could be offset in part by raising taxes on vacant and blighted properties.

Winifred Pilachowski, a Landers voter, pointed to a cluster of overgrown weeds on the sidewalk at Fait Avenue and blamed the city for failing the keep the streets tidy. are paying all of these taxes but we are not getting anything for she said. Conaway said cutting the property tax rate was unrealistic, but the rest of the candidates proposed reductions. Rolley presented a detailed plan to slash the rate for homeowners in half over a decade; Pugh said she would do the same over four years but did not provide specifics. Rawlings-Blake, who raised more than 70 taxes and fees in her 19 months in office, said she would use revenue from the proposed city slots casino to cut the tax rate by 9percent over nine years.

Conaway injected a touch of comedy into the race, slamming his opponents in a rap song and reciting nursery rhymes at campaign forums. Wilton Wilson, a home health care nurse who made his first run for office, finished last among the Democratic candidates. Henderson credited challengers with sparking debate on issues central to the future. matter how good the performance of an incumbent is, important to have different views and he said. fact that these other candidates stepped up to the plate and ran vigorous campaigns is healthy for Linda Gross, a retired teacher, described Rawlings-Blake as think she deserves a chance to see what she can do on a full Gross said.

think she sometimes gets a bad rap. not effusive. I just think very realistic about what can be Kimberly Hendricks, 44, said she backed Rawlings-Blake because a very intelligent not very charismatic, people have not given her a chance. good for the said Hendricks, who works in fundraising for the Johns Hopkins University. politics, sometimes we want all the bells and whistles.

If you look past that, been a good Baltimore Sun reporters Childs Walker, Annie Linskey, Luke Broadwater, Nicole Fuller and Jessica Anderson contributed to this article. julie.scharper@baltsun.com twitter.com/juliemore Incumbent gains the Democratic nomination MAYOR, Frompage1 Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake greets voters at the Forest Park Senior Center on primary election day. BARBARA HADDOCK PHOTO Bernard C. Young, picked by his fellow City Council members last year to lead the panel, won the Democratic nomination Tuesday to keep the office for four more years. It was the first citywide campaign for Young, a 15-year veteran of the council.

He defeated a field of challengers that included Tom Kiefaber, the former owner of the Senator Theatre. Surrounded by supporters at a victory celebration downtown, Young said he would not take his victory for granted. not my said Young, 57. feel trapped here. I just want to make Baltimore a place people want to He said he plans to review and consider his ideas on vacant buildings, policing and the property tax.

In Democratic Baltimore, Young is heavily favored over the Republican nominee in the general election. The race between Republicans Armand F. Girard and David A. Wiggins was too close to call at press time. The council president heads the spending board.

The office was a stepping stone for five of the last seven mayors: Thomas III, William Donald Schaefer, Clarence H. Du Burns, Sheila Dixon and Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. In his brief tenure as president, Young pushed legislation to create a fund to pay for repairs to city schools, but language was stripped that would have appointed funding power to the council. He has moved for more transparency in city government, airing public meetings on the cable channels. He has abstained from some key council votes, including the push for a bottle tax, which ultimately passed.

Brenda Anderson, who lives in the Parkside Harris neighborhood of Baltimore, said she voted for Young. She recalled that he had responded to her complaint about rats in the alley near her house. own representative answer said Anderson, 63, who volunteers in city schools. Young sent someone to help While several of the incumbents appeared poised to win re-election, the fate of some veteran lawmakers was uncertain late last night as votes were still being counted. In West 7th District, Council- woman Belinda Conaway, a member of the Conaway political dynasty, was trailing a few percentage points behind Nick Mosby, a video manager at Verizon from Reservoir Hill.

Mosby, 33, a former president of the Bolton Park Neighbors Association, was supported by Rawlings-Blake. Shannon Snead, a television news producer and political newcomer, was narrowly leading incumbent Warren Branch to represent East District 13. In one of the most hotly contested races, to represent Charles Village and parts of East Baltimore, incumbent Carl Stokes won by a large margin. Stokes, who served on the council from 1987 to 2005, was selected by his colleagues to fill the 12th District seat left open when Young became council president last year; he faced six challengers. Mosby said it was to be so close to victory.

Conaway name is a strong name in West Baltimore, but a new leadership coming of Mosby said. In the race for the only open seat, Brandon M. Scott, a of was leading in the six- way race. Scott, 27, has never held public office, but worked in the Office of Neighborhoods. Incumbent William Welch, who was appointed to the council last year when his mother, longtime Councilwoman Agnes Welch, stepped down, won his eight-way race in District 9.

In Northeast District 4, incumbent Bill Henry was leading Scherod Barnes, former president of the Loch Raven Improvement Association. Incumbent Helen Holton held off three challengers in District 8. James B. Kraft, Robert W. Curran, Rochelle Spector, Sharon Green Middleton and Edward L.

Reisinger, won Tuesday night. Two other incumbents, Mary Pat Clarke and William Cole, faced no opposition. Baltimore Sun reporters Julie Scharper and Steve Kilar contributed to this article. nicole.fuller@baltsun.com CITY COUNCIL Young wins 1st citywide race Most council incumbents win; Conaway trailing in 7th Bernard "Jack Young, holding his 2-year-old granddaughter, MadisynLockett, greets supporters at his gathering in the Inner Harbor. He said he take his victory for granted: not my GENE SWEENEY BALTIMORE SUN PHOTO By Nicole Fuller The Baltimore Sun CITY COUNCIL RACES TOP RACES MAYOR BALTIMORE CITY DEM PRIMARY 290 of 290 x-Stephanie Rawlings-Blake Catherine Pugh Otis Rolley Joseph Landers Frank Conaway Wilton Wilson MAYOR BALTIMORE CITY GOP PRIMARY 290 of 290 Alfred Griffin Vicki Harding BALTIMORE CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT DEM PRIMARY 290 of 290 x-Bernard Young Tom Kiefaber Charles Smith Leon Hector Renold Smith BALTIMORE CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT GOP PRIMARY 290 of 290 David Wiggins Armand Girard.