Warren Dems select Councilman Flask to fill auditor post

WARREN

Vince Flask, 5th Ward councilman since 2004, was selected Friday by Warren’s Democratic Party Central Committee members to serve as Warren auditor for 18 months – through the end of 2017.

If Flask wants to finish out the last two years of the term, he will have to run for it in 2017.

It took two ballots, but Flask received 15 votes, compared to political newcomer Valdeoso Patterson’s 10. In the first round of voting, Flask had 11 votes, Patterson had eight and Councilman Eddie Colbert had 6.

A second ballot was required because a majority of the 25 voters had to vote in favor of the eventual winner.

In Flask’s three-minute presentation to committee members, he explained he had been a Delphi Packard Electric worker who is now a business owner and real-estate investor with “over a decade of dealing with the city’s finances” as a council member.

Read more about him in Saturday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.