Reichert wins Macon-Bibb mayor’s office by wide margin over Ellis | Elections | Macon.com

Macon Mayor Robert Reichert overwhelmingly won a runoff race Tuesday to become the first mayor of Macon-Bibb County’s consolidated government.

“I’ll tell you this: The real work starts now,” he told several hundred cheering supporters at the Armory Ballroom in downtown. “We are turning the page, and Macon-Bibb County’s future starts tonight.”

Reichert triumphed over former Mayor C. Jack Ellis for the fourth time in two years, including wins in the 2011 Democratic Macon mayoral primary and a razor-thin victory in that year’s runoff. Last month, Reichert came close to capturing an outright majority in a six-man race in the Sept. 17 nonpartisan election for city-county mayor. Then Tuesday, Reichert secured a three-year term as the consolidated government’s top official.

Commissioner-elect Al Tillman came in, followed by 2011 mayoral candidate Paul Bronson, former Macon-Bibb commission candidate Danny Glover and state Rep. Nikki Randall, D-Macon.

“The Repubs are here!” Tillman said, greeting Reichert with a joking reference to a scurrilous anonymous flier that circulated over the weekend. The flier painted Reichert and many fellow longtime Democrats as secret Republicans.

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