By Richard Dyer
Twitter: @RHDyer

Incumbents Robin Benning and Jeff Brown along with candidate Leah Martineau tallied the most votes in the Aug. 4 primary election and earned seats on the Queen Creek Town Council.

The new Council members will be seated during the first meeting in January 2021.

For the election winners, future plans involve getting ready to serve Queen Creek residents. For those who fell short, those plans could mean seeking another elected office. All five Queen Creek Town Council candidates were contacted by Independent Newsmedia to comment on the results. Here’s what they had to say.

“I am honored that the voters have re-elected me to serve another four years on the Queen Creek Town Council. Queen Creek continues to grow and flourish under the guidance of the Town Council, and I feel truly blessed to represent our residents in preparing our community for the future,” Mr. Benning said.

“I promise to remain open and available to respond to your questions and concerns. Thank you all for placing your trust in me,” he said.

Mr. Benning is an architect and urban planner at Whitneybell Perry Inc.

Mr. Brown, who is self-employed in consultant services, also thanked voters.

“Thank you to all who supported me, of course — but also to those that didn’t, but still got out and cast their ballot. I will endeavor to support and represent every resident and stakeholder of our great town with integrity and transparency over the course of my term,” he said.

“No matter the end result of the vote count, I am personally thankful to each candidate who ran. The race and all of the campaigning was very clean and above board. We are all so blessed that each of the candidates are honorable and courageous people — and they are all to be commended for their service to our community,” Mr. Brown said.

Ms. Martineau said she looks forward to building relationships as a new Town Council member.

“I am honored to represent the great citizens of Queen Creek as the newest member of the Town Council. Being active in the community is very important to me, so I will work tirelessly to serve our beautiful town,” she said.

“I can’t wait to build relationships with so many wonderful people here. I also look forward to listening to the concerns and ideas of everyone to keep Queen Creek a great place to live,” Ms. Martineau said.

She teaches 11th- and 12th-grade government and economics at East Valley High School.

The future is bright for the Town of Queen Creek, Mr. Gad said.

“I’d like to thank all the Queen Creek residents who participated and voted in this primary election. Thank you to the many, many thousands of voters who supported me and wanted to see me serve on the Town Council,” he said.

“While we are extremely disappointed in the overall results, the trust so many of you placed in me with your vote means so much. Queen Creek is a wonderful place to live and our future is bright,” Mr. Gad said.

He works as a strategic supply chain manager in the financial services industry.

An e-mail response was not received from council candidate Mr. Benson, who owns iFixem Phone Repairs in Queen Creek Marketplace and Light Your Garage.

Richard Dyer
Managing Editor | East Valley
@RHDyer

rdyer@iniusa.org

Richard Dyer has worked at Independent Newsmedia, Inc.. USA, since 1987. Since 2009, he has worked as a volunteer to design The Blue Guitar Magazine, Blue Guitar Jr. magazine and Unstrung magazine, which are projects of The Arizona Consortium for the Arts; and since 2014, has been overseeing the art submissions. He also is an artist of welded-steel sculptures, selling his artwork at juried and non-juried art shows