Ruben Wills beat out six other candidates in the non-partisan Special Election and will now serve the 28th City Council District, a seat left open with the passing of Thomas White Jr.
“We intend on getting to work right away,” Wills told The Courier on Tuesday evening, November 2.
With just over 31 percent of the vote, Wills, a former aide to Councilmember Leroy Comrie, won over challengers Nicole Paultre Bell, widow of Sean Bell, 25 percent; Albert Baldeo, 14 percent; Allan W Jennings Jr., 10 percent; Charles Bilal, nine percent; Harpreet Singh Toor, seven percent and Martha Taylor Butler, four percent.
Wills’ agenda, he said, will focus on foreclosures, affordable health care, job creation and education.
“Despite the negativity, the community voted me in,” he said. “I’m a little choked up right now.”
White, a Democrat who represented the 28th District, passed away on Friday, August 27 after battling cancer.
Wills will serve until 2011, at which point there will be another primary and general election for the remainder of White’s term, through 2013.
