2007 election slate is set
Three seats, seven candidates
-- John Patten, 09/08/07
-- jpatten@veniceflorida.com

Got a comment? Make it here.

The gate closed on Friday for qualifying for the 2007 municipal elections. Five Venice residents are now officially running for two Venice City Council seats, while two are in the hunt for the mayor's seat.

To nobody's surprise, here are the breakdowns:

Venice Mayor (Seat 7):

Venice City Council Seat 6:

Venice City Council Seat 5:

photo credits:
Hammett, Woods, Willson -- City of Venice
Lang -- campaign publicity photo
Martin, Zavodnyik -- Venice Florida! dot com
*Budway -- stated he didn't know how to send a photo by email, wanted to approve the use of photo before consenting to provide one

John Patten is the head of Web Operations for Creative Pages, and has worked in broadcasting for over 12 years. He can also be incredibly rude at times.