Former Richmond City Council president and mayoral candidate Michelle Mosby says she plans to file paperwork this week to run for city treasurer. She is the third person to announce an intention to run in the November election to replace longtime treasurer Eunice Wilder, who is retiring after heading up the relatively low-profile city office since 1992.
Six candidates for mayor in Richmond spent a combined $2.2 million on the race. The biggest spender was not the winner: Former Venture Richmond Director Jack Berry's expenditures on the race through Dec. 1 topped $1 million. He came in second place with 34 percent of the vote.
With the election a little less than a month behind them, most of Richmond’s former mayoral candidates are planning a quiet return to private life. Jack Berry, who placed second in the race behind Mayor-elect Levar Stoney, said he would not seek a job in Stoney’s administration — a possibility some of his supporters have encouraged both him and Stoney to pursue.
If Richmond City Council President Michelle Mosby felt any nostalgia about hosting her final 9th District community meeting, the outgoing council member did a good job of hiding it. More than 30 people gathered at the Goodwill of Central and Coastal Virginia on Midlothian Turnpike in Richmond on Thursday to bid farewell to Mosby after her four-year term on City Council. Mayor-elect Levar Stoney, incoming 9th District council member Michael Jones and Richmond police Maj. Sydney Colliers dropped by to pay their respects and continue to get acquainted with a community that has felt left behind.
After a tense day of waiting for absentee returns to be counted, Levar Stoney formally became Richmond’s mayor-elect Wednesday evening. Stoney had come out of election night winning the race — an unexpected outcome for the 35-year-old former secretary of the commonwealth and veteran aide to Gov. Terry McAuliffe who had polled in third place heading into the election.
Former Venture Richmond Director Jack Berry joined Joseph D. Morrissey on Thursday in criticizing their mutual opponent in the mayoral race, Levar Stoney, for his recently revealed role in the latest stadium negotiations. “What we don’t need is a candidate who failed to remove himself or even disclose his involvement after announcing his intention to run for mayor, meanwhile working to influence the outcome behind closed doors,” Berry said in a statement.
Richmond mayoral candidate Levar Stoney participated in behind-the-scenes negotiations surrounding the latest stadium talks as recently as last week, his campaign said Wednesday. Stoney’s ongoing involvement in high-level regional negotiations concerning the city — first disclosed Tuesday — emerged as an unexpected wrinkle 20 days ahead of the election, and it remains unclear whether it will prove to be an asset or a liability for Stoney as he works to pull out of third place in the seven-way race.
Mayoral candidates in Richmond jostled to respond Tuesday to the latest development in the region’s long-running ballpark saga — specifically whether the city should contribute financially to help construct the stadium. Former Del. Joseph D. Morrissey, the front-runner in the race, held a news conference in front of the gates to The Diamond, where he unequivocally declared he would oppose any city funding for such a project.
Former Venture Richmond Director Jack Berry raised more cash than former Secretary of the Commonwealth Levar Stoney for the first time last month. In campaign finance reports filed with the state Monday, Berry reported collecting $160,759 in donations in September.
The first and only televised debate of the Richmond mayoral campaign Monday yielded unusually sharp exchanges between the five candidates invited to participate. The event’s moderators, WWBT anchors Curt Autry and Diane Walker along with WCVE news director Craig Carper, teed the night off by asking former Del. Joseph D. Morrissey to respond to a recent attack ad launched by City Council President Michelle Mosby.