Alejandro wins District 3 county council seat
Voters in District 3 chose community advocate Kira Alejandro to be their next representative on New Castle County Council. Alejandro defeated Republican Melissa Brayman, 63% to 37%, in Tuesday’s election. She will succeed longtime incumbent Janet Kilpatrick, who was a Republican for much of her career and recently switched her registration to Democrat. Alejandro, 30, is a resident of Yorklyn and works at a Kennett Square, Pa., coffee shop. She got involved in advocacy two years ago after learning of a plan to build a six-story apartment building at the site of the former National Vulcanized Fiber factory in Yorklyn. “I watched maybe 200 people just lose their minds in anger over what might be allowed to be done in this area, and that was the point at which I decided I was going to do something about it myself,” Alejandro said during the campaign. She and other advocates successfully defeated the proposal, and the experience inspired Alejandro to run for office. “It just became more and more clear to me that the reason this continues to happen is because we have too much special interest money in our local government that is sort of directing our local government behind
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