CITY OF BRIDGEPORT BEGINS EARLY VOTING FOR 2025 MUNICIPAL ELECTION
BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. — Early voting for the 2025 municipal election for the City of Bridgeport is officially underway.
Polls officially opened at the Bridgeport City Clerk’s Office on Wednesday to accept early voting ballots ahead of election day, scheduled to take place on June 10. Former Harrison County Sheriff Robert Matheny and current Bridgeport City Councilor Clayton Rice will be on the ballot for the mayor of Bridgeport, with six candidates on the ballot for three seats on the Bridgeport City Council. Both candidates for mayor bring their own level of local experience to the race that will take place in the first election since the controversial exit of former Bridgeport City Manager Pat Ford.
“I want to serve the residents as the mayor of Bridgeport,” said Rice in his pitch to voters on WAJR’s Talk of the Town. “I’m not moving on to another venue of any sort; I’m well grounded, and my belief system lives and dies right in Bridgeport.”
Rice brings time served on Bridgeport City Council as well as experience on several local commerce-focused organizations in his multi-decade career. A lifelong Bridgeport resident who graduated from Bridgeport High School in 1983, Rice is a small business owner with decades of corporate banking experience working with First Exchange Bank who has also served as president of the Harrison County Chamber of Commerce. A current member of the Bridge Advisory Committee, Rice aims to continue to serve the community that he was born and raised in.
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