Daily News | City Councilmember Cindy Bass clinging to razor-thin lead against progressive challenger
Philadelphia City Councilmember Cindy Bass on Wednesday afternoon was still attempting to fend off a challenge fromprimary, holding a lead of less than 300 votes.few competitive reelection campaigns
At one point Tuesday evening, Bass had a sizable lead, but the race tightened around midnight as a large number of votes for Anderson-Oberman were added to the total.The Democratic City Committee had endorsed Bass, but it let the 69 wards make their own requests for sample ballots this cycle. In Chestnut Hill’s 9th Ward, for example, Anderson-Oberman, not Bass, was the endorsed candidate on the “Official 9th Ward Democratic Ballot.
At precincts around the district, Anderson-Oberman’s supporters said they believed their candidate would help maintain affordability in rapidly changing neighborhoods. Marie-Monique Marthol, 54, a health educator who lives in Germantown and volunteered for Anderson-Oberman’s campaign, said she’d chosen to support him in part because she believed Bass was making land use decisions in her district without community input.
Bass had the backing of party leaders, Philly’s largest municipal union, and SEPTA’s largest labor union. She cancelled her own election night eventCherelle Parker, who won the Democratic primary for mayor.at the Daniel E. Rumph recreation center in Germantown. Mark Demby, an engineer at the water department, said he’d voted for Bass, whom he knows personally.
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