2008 Frisco election results: Maso for mayor, no late night ordinance

by Alex Bentley

With the defeat of the proposed late night ordinance, Friscans have decided that midnight is still as late enough as one should drink, thank you very much.

FRISCO — Friscans had all sorts of new choices to make Saturday, as none of the candidates for mayor or city council were running for re-election. Matt Lafata was the only familiar name on the ballot, as he was the Place 6 city councilman, but he was running for mayor this time around. However, he was overwhelmingly defeated by Maher Maso, 77% to 23%.

Taking over for Lafata in the Place 6 seat will be Scott Johnson, who easily won election with 65.20% of the vote over challengers Jim Tupper, Buddy Clark, and La Della Levy. In the Place 5 city council race, Bart Crowder received the most support with 47.05% of the vote, but he will face a runoff on June 14 against runner-up Tim H. Nelson, who got 38.33%. John C. Newsome and Antonio Luevano finished well back in the Place 5 race. Finally, voters chose to reject Referendum No. 1 by a 56.76% to 43.24% margin, which means that any business that has a mixed beverage late hours permit will still have to close at midnight, rather than stay open later, as the city council had recommended in a previous vote.

Two seats were up for grabs on Frisco ISD Board of Trustees. In the Place 4 race, incumbent Brenda Polk easily defeated challenger Janet MacCubbin, 60.57% to 39.43%. In the Place 5 race, incumbent Richard A. Beaver also won easily over challenger Jeremy Starritt, 66.30% to 33.70%.

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Jason Rice, says:

Yay!

Maso has a reputation for the arts! Let's hope this puts Frisco back on track. With the closure of the main performance venue on Camellia, many of the Frisco community arts organizations, specifically theater, are forced to roam the streets of other northern suburbs. We have buddies with those groups who helped us out in our nomadic years so we're glad to return the hospitality in Plano. They're nice folks, but homesick.

I serve on an arts board of directors with one member that worked feverishly on Maso's campaign. He is lightning fast to point out, Frisco needs someone to steer all that new money and growth into sustainable responsible popular public art - and soon before their native artists put down roots everywhere else!

We have plenty of sterile boring suburbs with no art that are doomed to whatever Dallas and Disney deem "just and good... and profitable."

Yay! Frisco! Yay, Maso!