MORNING HEADLINES | Stephanie Ganaway-Pasley and Chris Emde were elected to the North Charleston City Council in a special Tuesday election.
Ganaway-Pasley, a civil mediator and past mayoral candidate, and Emde, a small business owner, filled two of three seats left vacant after a federal corruption probe rocked North Charleston. Unofficial results show about 11% of registered voters went to the polls Tuesday.
“This win is a clear referendum from the people, demanding more transparency, greater integrity and genuine collaboration,” Ganaway-Pasley said in a statement.
She won 32% of the vote for the District 3 seat, while Emde also won 32% of the vote for the District 5 seat.
“The number one thing that everybody talked about from all the doors that I went to, the top thing was integrity,” Emde said. “People are just looking for somebody with integrity.”
The special election came after former council members Sandino Moses and Jerome Heyward resigned from their council seats after federal corruption charges were filed against them and six others, including District 1 Councilman Mike Brown. He was suspended from his seat by the Gov. Henry McMaster. Heyward and Moses were among four who pleaded guilty in March.
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