I don't see this as making much difference, but there's one less candidate in District D now.
City Council candidate Leatrice Watson has switched her candidacy, from the District D seat to At-Large 1, the seat currently held by Peter Brown.Watson only can run as a write-in candidate for At-Large 1 because she missed the deadline to get on the ballot for that race.
Watson, 60, said the District D field was too crowded and that by winning the at-large spot, she could serve the whole city. Without Watson, the open District D race now features seven candidates. The seat is being vacated by term-limited Councilwoman Ada Edwards.
Watson, retired director of a local American Red Cross service center, said she originally became interested in running for office because her street, Ebbtide Drive, has been "caving in" since 1985 and the city has not fixed it.
Now, she is interested in stopping unnecessary construction projects, cleaning up public streets and buildings, and stopping the destruction of historical neighborhoods to build new high-rises, she said.