Lee
Harvey
NEWBURGH – The next mayor of the City of Newburgh may very well
be a Democrat.
Both candidates are Democrats; no Republicans have filed petitions to
run.
Current appointed Mayor Torrance Harvey and former Councilwoman Gay Lee
will face off in a Democratic primary in September, but whoever loses
will be on the ballot short of a challenge to their petition signatures.
Harvey will appear on the Working Families Party line as well and Lee
will appear on the Independence and Reform Party lines.
Harvey was appointed by the city council to serve through the end of this
year following the death of Mayor Judy Kennedy. Whoever wins in November
will serve just the remaining year of Kennedy’s four-year term and
then must run for a full four-year term.
The only other council seat up for election this fall is for councilman-at-large
and the only candidate is Anthony Grice, who was appointed to fill that
post for the remainder of this year when Harvey resigned from that post
in order to be named mayor.
