Real-estate broker Gina McKenzie led the bring-trash-pickup-back-to-the-alleys campaign that helped sink former Mayor Dennis Hession’s re-election chances. Andrew Jackson is a computer software engineer. The types of candidates pitted against five-year incumbent Ralph Baker vary. There were also three candidates in 2002, 19 - and only one in 1990.
In 2006, the last election for assessor, there were three candidates. Ralph Baker, Sadie Charlene Cooney, Vicki Horton, Andrew Jackson, Gina McKenzie, Lori Wick
