[March 03, 2010] BRIEF: Voters choose change Tweet Mar 03, 2010 (McAlester News-Capital - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Voters in three McAlester wards elected new city councilors Tuesday -- with the councilors expected to take office as soon as next week. Former acting City Treasurer Steve Harrison, 58, won the Ward 2 seat. Harrison is also a CPA who has chaired the city's volunteer Audit & Finance Committee, which gives financial advice to the city council. Robert Karr, 46, a quality inspector at Spirit AeroSystems, won the Ward 4 city council post. Like Harrison, his city council race marked his first run for a city office. In the Ward 6 race, former councilor Louis Smitherman, 64, regained the seat he had held for 11 years, before losing it in a 2005 recall election. All three candidates garnered more than the 50 percent of the vote needed to win the posts, negating the need for a runoff in any of the three-way races. Also, voters in the Quinton School District passed a $4.1 million school bond issue on Tuesday by 66.55 percent of the vote. For more of this story, see Wednesday's edition of the McAlester News-Capital. Contact James Beaty at [email protected]. To see more of the McAlester News-Capital or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.mcalesternews.com/. Copyright (c) 2010, McAlester News-Capital, Okla. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. For reprints, email [email protected], call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, send a fax to 847-635-6968, or write to The Permissions Group Inc., 1247 Milwaukee Ave., Suite 303, Glenview, IL 60025, USA. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]