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chooses 3 incumbents and narrows
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Staff Writer

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eople pleased with the polit-
ical system are not likely to
show up for elections, espe-
cially primary elections.
That conventional wisdom proved
to be true Tuesday in Southfield,
where only 10 percent of registered
voters turned out to vote in the pri-
mary election. In the city council race,
the top eight candidates, out of a field
of 10, will be placed on the Nov. 7
ballot. In November, the top three
vote getters will earn four-year terms;
the fourth will fill a two-year term.
The primary vote was solidly in
favor of the status quo. The three
council incumbents — Sidney Lantz,
Myron Frasier and Sylvia Jordan —
took the top three slots, followed by
Jonathan Brateman, Roy T. Bell,
Eleanor Smith, Robert Willis and
Marilyn A. Williams.
The top vote getter, Lantz, who was
first elected to the council in 1983,
said he, stands for "unity between all
ethnic groups; dialogue and forums."
Lantz received 3,542 votes of the
6,545 ballots cast.

Trailing Lantz with 3,494 votes was
Frasier, an incumbent first appointed
to the council in 1992, then elected to
a two-year term in 1997.
Frasier said diversity issues always
would be crucial, but were no longer
the voters' most pressing concerns.
"People are concerned about the
budget, the services we provide," he
said, "not just police, fire and EMS,
but also senior services, youth services
and neighborhood services." Among
the voters' other top concerns, he said,
are maintaining housing stock and the
quality of the city's schools.
Jordan, a councilman for the past
two years, came in third, receiving
3,006 votes. She said she was not sur-
prised the three incumbents had
received the most primary votes.
"People recognize we are doing a great
job in Southfield," Jordan said.
Jonathan Brateman, running for
city council for the first time, came in
fourth, with 2,972 votes. If elected,
Brateman said he wanted to be "a pos-
itive force on the council."
His goals include "continuing to
provide those good services the city is
already noted for, and to build on
those services." He also intends to