The Sun Sunnyvale's Newspaper News Briefs Rowe announces bid for council Frances Rowe, a former Sunnyvale mayor, announced Monday she will run for City Council in November. Rowe said she will run for seat 7, which is being vacated by Stan Kawczynski. In a press release issued to several news agencies, Rowe stated, "I am vitally concerned with the power politics and political cliques that have developed at City Hall. I believe that individual political futures have become a bigger concern than the rights and interests of individual citizens." Since being ousted in December 1994, Rowe has hounded the city to release information she says will prove she was the victim of a politically motivated overthrow. At the time of her removal, Rowe was chastised by her peers at the dais for "conduct unbecoming of a councilmember." Subsequently, closed-door meetings between the council and legal advisers on the matter led to a three-year legal battle between the city and the Mercury News. The suit was settled last year when the courts ruled in favor of the paper, ordering the city to pay legal and court fees. Rowe first made an impression years back by walking the length of Sunnyvale, knocking on doors in search of votes. "With much hard work, and your help, I know we can restore Sunnyvale to its once-renowned status of being a well-run model city," Rowe said in her press release. [ Back to Contents Page | Sunnyvale Sun Home Page | Archives ] This article appeared in the Sunnyvale Sun, January 6, 1999. ©1998 Metro Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.