MALTA — Three town-council candidates are vying for two ballot lines in this month’s Conservative primary.
Voters will choose between two-term incumbent Craig Warner, two-term incumbent Tim Dunn and newcomer Murray Eitzmann. The Saratoga County Conservative Party endorsed Warner and Eitzmann in April, leaving Dunn running as an outside candidate.
Warner and Eitzmann are also endorsed by the Saratoga County Republicans, meaning that the two will run in the general election regardless of the Conservative primary’s result.
For Dunn, however, the primary is his last chance to appear in the general election.
Warner, a retired designer who spent 32 years at General Electric, joined the Malta town council in 2016. He co-founded the Malta Veterans Appreciation Program and has served on the Malta Zoning Board and Capital District Regional Planning Commission. The former chair of the now-defunct water and sewer committee, he has prioritized developing the town’s infrastructure.
In a text message, Warner described himself as “the most conservative of all candidates,” adding that his record “supports the endorsement of the Conservative Party.”
Warner sparked controversy in February 2021 for praising a former Malta zoning board member photographed at the Jan. 6 riot at U.S. Capitol.
Dunn, the founder of the marketing and communications firm Dunn Strategies Group, also joined the Malta Town Council in 2016. He serves as the chair of Malta’s economic development committee, citing balanced economic development as a key issue in his tenure.
“We put actually a formal restriction in place to say you couldn’t build multifamily housing of more than 15 units per acre (in downtown Malta), which has been a big, big tool to help us reduce the pace and scale of compound residential development in our town,” he said.
Dunn has also prioritized…
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