My fellow Americans. As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball. But tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward; upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!

Any elections for city positions can be non partisan, that doesn't mean the individual does not have a political affiliation. It means they are running for a seat that is not a partisan seat and does not have primary elections to determine the party representative for that seat in the general election.