11 Council candidates

He is not running primarily to spend more time raising his children to be “good citizens,” he said Tuesday after the 4 p.m. filing deadline.

Carol Wood, 64, will seek her fifth term as an at-large member. She is the only incumbent in the race, which features six candidates for two seats. They will vie for votes in the Aug. 4 primary. The top four will compete in November, with the top two taking the two at-large seats up for grab.

Delgado singled out for praise two other candidates for the at-large spot: Emily Dievendorf. who recently left the GLBT advocacy group Equality Michigan as executive director, and Patricia Spitzley, a redevelopment manager for Racer Trust, which is cleaning up old General Motors properties for redevelopment.

“I have spent my career working with state and local governments to craft policies that help strengthen our communities and our people,” said Dievendorf, 36. “I am now ready to take the next step in that fight and work to make the Lansing community that I’m proud to call my home a safer, stronger and more vibrant place to live.”

Spitzer, 50, a lifelong resident of Lansing, graduated from Central Michigan University and has a law degree from Michigan State University.

“I believe in Lansing. I’d like to believe I bring a new face and a new perspective to City Council,” she said in a phone interview.

Also running are Harold Leeman Jr., 57, a former Lansing City Council member; Rob Hecksel, 48, a retired Lansing firefighter; and Mary Ann Prince, a 70 yearold retired state worker.

In the Third Ward, A’Lynne Boles will defend her seat against Ryan Earl and Adam Hussain. The top two vote-getters in the August primary will proceed to the November election. Hussain is the son of First Ward City Councilwoman Jody Washington. Neither Hussain nor Earl could be reached before deadline.

In the First Ward, Washington will face off with Shelley Davis Mielock in the November election.