Gammino might be out of 5th District race
This news is coming from the Byrd Park site. I haven’t seen any supporting evidence. I do want to add that Jason who runs the Byrd Park site has no reason to make this up so I’m believing that Gammino is out of the race.
Citing news of a $13.7 million lawsuit from a Norfolk bank, David Gammino says he’s decided not to challenge Marty Jewell for the 5th district City Council seat. The suit pertains to work allegedly performed by Gammino’s development firm, City & Guilds, in concert with Justin French’s infamous multimillion-dollar fraud over historic tax credits. In a chance run-in in Carytown, Gammino noted that it would be impossible to keep focused on his campaign platform with the lawsuit hanging out there. This leaves Lee Shewmake the lone challenger to Jewell’s seat.
I don’t see anything about this on Gammino’s website as of this evening (Sunday).
Stuffa the official RTD announcement is here: http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2012/jun/10/gammino-withdraws-from-richmond-city-council-race-ar-1979230/ Local news sites beat the big boys to the punch.
[...] Byrd Park broke the news and now RTD is stating that David Gammino is pulling out of the race for city council in the 5th District. This leaves Lee Shewmake as the lone challenger against Marty Jewell. In a writtten statement Sunday, Gammino said he was pulling out because of a $13.7 million lawsuit filed against him last week, accusing him of falsifying documents for two projects he was doing with French, a convicted Ponzi schemer. [...]
Thanks!
A shame. Gammino could have beaten Jewell. Now we are stuck for another four years.
Oh, Sundagger, don’t say that. Lee has much more sense than Marty!
Lee would be a fresh start, not connected or obligated to anyone!!
Everyone should throw their support to Lee
Sundagger, there IS challenger to Marty Jewell.