Sam Sutter lost the campaign to Mayor Paul Coogan on November 7,2023.
12 Facts About Sam Sutter
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Sam Sutter ran against 16-year incumbent Bristol County District Attorney Paul Walsh in 2006, and beat him in a closely contested Democratic Primary election, with Sam Sutter getting 33,967 votes and Walsh getting 32,186 votes.
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Sam Sutter was outspent by almost 7 to 1 in the race, spending just $164,000 on his campaign, while Walsh spent $740,000.
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In 2012 Sam Sutter ran for Congress in the newly re-districted 9th Congressional District against incumbent Bill Keating.
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The 2011 redistricting process significantly changed Keating's district, cutting out Keating's hometown of Quincy and adding large sections of Bristol County where Sam Sutter was well known but Keating was not.
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Sam Sutter was considered a potential candidate for Massachusetts Attorney General, with incumbent Martha Coakley leaving the office open when she ran for Governor in 2014.
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Sam Sutter was sworn in as Mayor of Fall River on December 30,2014.
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Sam Sutter faced another election in 2015, the regularly scheduled city elections.
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Correia went on to be indicted on federal corruption and fraud charges, and faced his own recall election in March 2019, which Sam Sutter declined to run in.
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On December 28,2022, Sam Sutter announced he would run for Mayor again, challenging incumbent Mayor Paul Coogan in the 2023 mayoral election.
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On November 7,2023, it was announced that Sam Sutter had lost the election, receiving only 4,310 votes in comparison to Coogan's 6,643 votes.
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Sam Sutter is married to Dorothy Feliz Sam Sutter, a paralegal, and has two children and one stepchild.