Town election this year?

There were a couple candidates in the last election in 2006 that had a platform of getting rid of Stutz as mayor and Roop as police chief but the residents elected to keep Stutz (and therefore Roop) in office so it seems that there are more residents who are happy with the existing set-up than there are residents who are unhappy.....when I talk to my neighbors about it - they don't seem to care who is in power in Haymarket so I'm afraid we are in store for 2 more years of the status quo.

"...of getting rid of Stutz as mayor and Roop as police chief..."

Obviously that's the goal, but making that the candidate's sole stated platform may not be the best way to get the voter's attention. After all, apathy is the default condition for most things, and it's easy for people to ignore atrocities that don't actually touch them. Sad, but often true. And the 'getting rid of' approach smacks of 'vendetta' which may call into question the candidate's integrity and make voters think they're just trading one bad egg for another.

There are something like 538 registered voters in Haymarket, but I don't know if there's a way to find out how that breaks down by party. Did Stutz run as a Republican last time? Did other local politicians endorse her, such as Board of Sup, senators, congressmen? Assuming she ran as either Rep or Ind, we need to find someone to run against her who will ID as Democrat, comparing and contrasting actual issues, not just 'look at all the bad/questionable things she's done'. God knows there's plenty of that, but voters don't want to hear grown-up candidates bicker like schoolchildren.

Since this is a national election year, are there parallels we can draw upon (good and bad) with those running for Pres. that might galvanize voters to actually come out and vote? In a pot this small,

Every. Vote. Counts.

And, depending on which of the paperwork dates below is correct, we're running out of time.

Nobody in the Town elections in 2006 ran as an affiliate of either party. Pretty much everyone runs independent.
Interesting concept of whether one could get the backing of either major party out these since this is a national election year.

Do we have someone in mind for the Mayor slot whom we can start promoting subtly around the various neighborhoods? Stutz is a name people will recognize from news letters and the like. If we're running a different candidate, we need to get the name recognition started now.

He's a good person...has almost a full term on Council under his belt. I'd say we should get him to run.

Do you know if he's amenable to this?

Town elections are non-partisan and in years past the turnout for Town elections is between 100 and 150.