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Albuquerque City Councilor Sally Mayer shocked political observers yesterday when she announced she was dropping out of her bid for reelection to her District 7 council seat.
KKOB 770 news reporter Peter St. Cyr first broke the news, blogging that Mayer, a Republican, informed the city clerk around 4pm, and that she told St. Cyr she was moving to Chicago in January to help her family.
The Albuquerque Journal’s Dan McKay has a piece in today’s paper describing Mayer’s tenure on the Council since 2001. She’s been a “colorful” member of the council, he says, who is best known for her animal advocacy — particularly for what he describes as one of the most controversial laws passed in the last decade:
She helped author one of Albuquerque’s most controversial laws over the last decade — the HEART ordinance, which stands for Humane and Ethical Animal Rules and Treatment. A key provision in the bill requires pet owners to sterilize their animals unless they buy a permit, a move intended to curb the number of unwanted animals who end up euthanized at city shelters.
The measure went through 16 drafts and survived a court challenge. She even faced a recall effort afterward, though opponents couldn’t muster enough signatures to force an election.
While she’s heading to Chicago now, she joked to McKay that she’d back one day unless she becomes “mayor of Chicago,” because she loves Albuquerque.
