Both Diane Mack and Charles Bare, who placed third and fourth in the Aug. 24 Pensacola mayoral primary respectively, endorsed and actively supported incumbent Mayor Mike Wiggins.
And what were the values of the endorsements of Mack and Bare? Not much.
Mack placed a distant third in the August 24 primary. Forty-three percent of her 2,054 votes came from five precincts: Macedonia, Flamingo Road Church, Cokesbury United Methodist Church, Fricker Community Center and Vickrey Community Center. In the primary, Hayward lost those five precincts to Wiggins by 281 votes. On Election Day, Hayward won them by 457 votes—-a reversal of 738 votes.
Bare brought up the rear in the August primary with 1,765 votes. He got 49 percent of his votes in five precincts: Cokesbury, Flamingo Road, Vickrey, Trinity Presbyterian Church and East Pensacola Heights. These polling places gave Wiggins a 28-vote over Hayward in the primary and a 49-vote margin in the general election. Bare’s endorsement was worth a net of 21 votes for Wiggins.
Combined impact: Negative 717 votes. I guess their arguments might be that the deficit would have been much larger without their help.
