Paplauskas 'strongly considering' run for mayor

By DANIEL KITTREDGE
Posted 1/15/20

By DANIEL KITTREDGE Ward 5 Councilman Chris Paplauskas confirmed last week that he continues to mull a run for the mayor's office. "e;I'm strongly considering it . I plan to make a decision in the spring,"e; he told the Herald. Paplauskas made history in

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Paplauskas 'strongly considering' run for mayor

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Ward 5 Councilman Chris Paplauskas confirmed last week that he continues to mull a run for the mayor’s office.

“I’m strongly considering it … I plan to make a decision in the spring,” he told the Herald.

Paplauskas made history in 2014, becoming the first Republican to win the council’s Ward 5 seat in decades. He was reelected in 2016 and 2018.

The councilman’s acknowledgement of his continued interest in a bid came as his fellow Republican, City Council President Michael Farina, prepared to officially announce his own candidacy.

The field could prove crowded. On the GOP side, Barbara Ann Fenton-Fung, wife of Mayor Allan Fung, and Jim Donahue, a former councilman, are also potential candidates for the party’s nomination.

No Democrats have yet officially announced their candidacy, although former councilwoman Maria Bucci has filed paperwork indicated she is planning a campaign. Citywide Councilman Steve Stycos, state Rep. Charlene Lima and former mayor Michael Napolitano are others eying the mayor’s office, which is becoming open for the first time in more than a decade.

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