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| Mayor elect Eddie Lowe with Supporters Tuesday Night |
Eddie
Lowe won the Phenix City mayor's race without a runoff Tuesday, capturing 64
percent of the vote to become the city's first black mayor.
Eddie
Lowe, who was one of the captains on coach Paul Bryant's last Alabama
football team in 1982. Lowe a former linebacker, who went on to play
professional football in the Canadian Football League was elected without a
runoff.
The
vote totals reported at the Phenix City Council chambers showed Lowe with 2,946
votes. His nearest competitor in the four-man race was Max Wilkes, currently
the council's District 1 representative, with 1,224, or 27 percent. Of the
other two candidates, Johnnie Robinson got 336, and Antonio Carter had 110,
according to vote tallies.
In
an interview with reporters outside the noisy room, Lowe said he wanted a
government that was "inclusive."
"The
first thing that we have to bring to light is that this is an inclusive city,
regardless of where you're from -- north, south, east or west; all ethnicities.
This is an inclusive city, and that's what we have to build upon."
Phenix
City's first black mayor will lead a council with a newcomer in every seat.
