Only the Arlington City Council incumbents had filed to be on the May 11 ballot by late last week.
Filing for the Arlington City Council election runs through March 1, according to the city secretary’s office.Mayor Robert Cluck, 73, is seeking a sixth, two-year term. Cluck considered not running again after being a target of a plot where a local strip-club owner tried to hire a hit man to kill him and an attorney working for the city. The man was sentenced to federal prison.With Cluck’s decision to seek another term, Robert Rivera opted to seek his fifth term as the District 3 City Council representative for southeast Arlington. Rivera, 41, has expressed interest in running for mayor but said he has no interest in challenging Cluck, who has been Arlington’s mayor the past 10 years.Kathryn Wilemon, 75, is seeking her sixth term as the District 4 representative for west Arlington and Lana Wolff, 66, is seeking her sixth term as the District 5, east-central Arlington representative.Michael Glaspie, 66, is running for his first full two-year term as an at-large representative. Glaspie won a special election last May to fill the late Gene Patrick’s unexpired term as the District 8 representative.Online: www.arlingtontx.gov/citycouncilSusan Schrock, 817-390-7639 Twitter: @susanschrock
