Mike Wolfe is a former politician. He was the first directly elected mayor of

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, sitting in office from 2002 to 2005. He was formerly employed as the manager of the

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in the city.

Career

Time as Mayor

Wolfe left the Labour Party to stand as an independent in the mayoral race of October 2002 and narrowly beat George Stevenson, a local Labour

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. Both Wolfe and his successor Mark Meredith are openly gay. Wolfe came third out of eight in his bid for re-election in May 2005 when Labour gained the position of elected mayor. The election was notable for a record number of spoiled ballot papers.

Post-2005

He later became a columnist for a local paper, '' The Sentinel''.

References

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