Politics & Government
A Third Prospective City Council Candidate
Justin Wedel has indicated his desire to run for one of two seats open on the Walnut Creek City Council.
Justin Wedel, a former computer technician for the city and the founder of a Walnut Creek-based business consulting company, announced his intention, via Twitter, to run for City Council.
Wedel, 31, is a 15-year resident of Walnut Creek and a five-year resident of the Woodlands neighborhood. He has an eight-month-old daughter.
He said he has never run for political office and plans to pull his nomination papers next Monday.
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While he will formally announce his platform next week, he says he is interested in running because he wants to have "the voice of Walnut Creek citizens to be heard again."
Wedel founded Walnut Creek-based Alamo Ridge in 2006. From 1997 to 1999, he worked as a computer technician for the City of Walnut Creek.
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He becomes the third person to publicly express an interest in running for the City Council seats currently occupied by Mayor Sue Rainey and Mayor Pro Tem Cindy Silva. Rainey has said she will not seek re-election in November; Silva had said she will. Planning Commissioner Kristina Lawson took out nomination papers Monday to run.
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