CAPE CORAL, Fla. Cape Coral Mayor Marni Sawicki won’t run for re-election, she announced Monday.
Sawicki cited a desire to “focus my energies on building my company when my term ends” in a lengthy Facebook post explaining her decision. Her term expires in November, shortly after the general election set for Nov. 7.
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Sawicki became the city’s first female mayor in 2013 after edging incumbent John Sullivan by 121 votes. She was sworn in to a standing ovation on Nov. 18 that year.
But more recently, Sawicki publicly sparred with the head of the city’s charter school system and engaged in an on-again, off-again relationship with a city employee to whom she was briefly married. She was even the target of an attack video from a group claiming to the be the internet activist “Anonymous” hackers.
Five candidates have so far filed to run for the office Sawicki is vacating: Derrick L. Donnell, Rana M. Erbrick, Michael Hollow, Kevin Koch and Sherry Leonard.
