Crews Drops out of Cedar Falls Runoff Election

An upcoming runoff race for the mayor's post in Cedar Falls, will still have 2 candidates on the ballot, however one of them has now dropped out.

Current Cedar Falls Mayor Jon Crews announced today (Thursday) that he will be retiring, effective the end of this year.

In the municipal elections held Tuesday, none of the three candidates received the majority of votes needed to win, so a runoff election was scheduled for December 1st, between the top two vote getters: Crews, and Cedar Falls Board of Education member Jim Brown. Brown actually had about 700 more votes than Crews.

But the 69 year old Crews now says he has decided to suspend his campaign, and retire from office when his current term is done.

The 47 year old Brown, who is also a development manager for a local software company, will still have to campaign for the runoff; even though Crews' name will be on the ballot and he has quit the race, voters may still write-in another candidate.