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April 28, 2006

Johnston Mayor Macera won't seek re-election

JOHNSTON - Mayor Macera announced this morning he will not seek a fifth term as Mayor this fall. Macera cited health concerns as the reason for deciding not to run.

Macera has been coping with a brain tumor, since 1996. While he said he was in no immediate health danger, he said he wanted to concentrate his full attention on that.

He said the chemotherapy treatments were leaving him tired.

"At five or six in the evening, I'm getting really tired. Night meetings and that sort of thing, I'm not really up for those things," he said.

Later after the press conference as he sat in his office, chatting with reporters, Macera was asked if he would miss the job. "No, " he said. "I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready to go. I don't need this office to define me as a person."

- Journal staff writer John Hill

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