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charleston | election
Rennels elected Charleston mayor Combs, Hutti win city council seats By Amanda Wilkinson City Editor Larry Rennels won the race to be the new mayor of Charleston with 1,355 votes on Tuesday. With 66 percent of the total votes cast in Charleston, Rennels beat out Brian Myerscough and Troy Richey for the mayoral seat. Rennels has been on the city council for 16 years and retired from Rennels TV & Appliance in 2010. Rennels said he felt confident while the votes were coming in. “I think I was in the lead every time they put a new list of precincts that had come in up,” he said. Rennels said being on the council made him more impervious to being nervous. “You know, this is the sixth general election that I’ve been through plus several primaries, and I guess I’ve learned to not let it bother me as much.” Rennels will be sworn in as the new mayor at the May 7 city council meeting. He said the first order of business will be to decide who will serve as mayor pro tempore and who will fill his recently resigned council seat. Rennels said he thinks voters picked him to be mayor because he has served on the city council for many years. “I am the most experienced and the best candidate for the job, and apparently the voters agreed,” he said. Rennels said his new position means the city will continue in the direction it has been going in. “We won’t be making any big changes,” he said. “We’re going to stay fiscally sound. We’re going to continue with our infrastructure improvements with the plan that we’ve had for several years and just update every year.” Rennels also said he would like to get more citizen involvement in decisions by
not waiving the layover period on city council items and leaving them up for public inspection. Myerscough, who received 580 votes, said he thought the mayoral election was going to be closer than it was. He said he hopes Rennels takes into account the issues he brought up during the debates. “I hope the best for Larry,” Myerscough said. “I will support him. If he needs help with something, I will be there for him.” Richey, who received 108 votes, said not winning this election was a sad experience. “I wish I had a better showing,” he said. “(I’ll) try again in four years. I won’t give up.” Brandon Combs and Matthew Hutti won the two city council seats up for election. Matthew Hutti won the first city council seat with 1,213 votes. Hutti is a Charleston High School and Eastern graduate and a current substitute teacher for the Charleston school district. He said he felt very excited and nervous watching the votes come in. “It means a lot to me,” Hutti said. “I just feel blessed for the opportunity to serve Charleston. It’s a great city with great people.” Combs won the other city council seat with 941 votes. He said he did not check to see if he had won until all the votes were in. Combs said he was driving around town, picking up his campaign signs when he got a text from his friend about his win. “I told my mom and dad, ‘Well, we better get on up to the courthouse,’” he said. Combs said he expected the city council election to be close. When the polls closed and the ballots started coming in, Combs and Tim Newell’s total votes were in a battle for the second city council seat. Newell came in at 893 votes, 48 votes short of winning the city council seat.
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By Bob Galuski & Amanda Wilkinson Entertainment Editor and City Editor Eastern’s voting precincts were hit by a voter turnout increase Tuesday for the Mayoral Election. Jarrod Scherle, executive vice president of the student government, said Precincts 16 and 17, located in the Bridge Lounge of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union, saw an increase of 30 people voting there, a rise from the 17 who voted in the last election. “I’ll take an increase of 47 from 17 any day,” Scherle said. He said it was difficult to know for sure how many of the 47 voters were Eastern students. Jack Rardin, an election judge for Precinct 16, said most of the people who showed up to vote on Tuesday came in groups. “That tells me that they’re talking to each other,” he said. Brenda King, an election judge for Precinct 17, said voters had been coming in at all times during the day. “They’ll come spaced out,” she said. “We all brought a book.” Rardin said there had not been an overwhelming amount of people flocking to the polls. “The biggest rush we’ve had is the cup of coffee this morning,” he said. Andrea Jenkins, a junior biology major, said it was important for students to vote, even if they think they will not change anything. “The reality of it is, you’re a student. It’s things that can definitely affect you, and you need to think about that,” she said. “Some people don’t do it on purpose, and some people, they just don’t care. They don’t really care to be involved with politics.” TURNOUT, page 5
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Official Student Senate election results to be announced By Samantha McDaniel Student Governance Editor The official results for next year’s Student Senate executive board will be announced at the Student Senate meeting on Wednesday. The Student Senate will meet at 7 p.m. in the Arcola-Tuscola Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. Student Senate Speaker Mitch Gurick, a sophomore business major, said the results will be read during the audience participation section of
the meeting. The unofficial results were read at the last meeting, and the candidates were given a week to file grievances. The Student Senate members will nominate and vote on the Speaker of the Senate for next year. “I hope whoever takes on my position will continue with (the things we’ve done this year),” Gurick said. The Student Senate members will also vote on Senator of the Semester and Senator of the Year award recipients, which will be announced at the inauguration on April 17.
Gurick said Student Body President Kaci Abolt will be giving a university address, and he will be giving the state of the Student Senate address. The Student Senate members will also be voting on the budgets that were approved by the Apportionment Board. They will go over the four studentfee funded budgets: Apportionment Board, University Board, student government and Campus Recreation. The Student Senate members will also be voting on nine expenditure requests, the largest of which is $6,300.
The Student Senate will review a bill to spend $6,300 for the Aug. 18 First Night. Abolt, a senior communication studies major, said the proposals are a formality that allow the incoming president to release the money for the events because the Student Senate will not be meeting before then. The money will cover $250 for an electrician, $2,100 for sound and lights, $350 for advertising, $3,300 for T-shirts and $300 for prizes and supplies. The Student Senate will also be dis-
cussing a bill to spend $300 for fall’s Pantherpalooza. The Student Senate will also discuss the purchase a pop-up canopy for the Student Outreach program, the Distinguished Professor Award Reception, the Officer Transition Dinner. The new Student Senate members will also be seated at the meeting. “I’m really excited about the future of the organization,” Gurick said. Samantha McDaniel can be reached at 581-2812 or slmcdaniel@eiu.edu.