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In what will likely be the most competitive race in this year’s New Bedford elections, Steve Martins is taking on Martin “Marty” Treadup for one of the New Bedford Assessor positions. Steve Martins is vacating his Ward 2 city council seat to run against long time assessor Martin Treadup who is currently the assessor chairperson.
The New Bedford assessor estimates the value of real property within the city and converts the value into an assessment or one component in the computation of real property tax. Property taxes are a hot topic in New Bedford.
The past few assessor races haven’t been competitive as the incumbents have run unopposed. Steven Martins and Martin Treadup are popular figures in New Bedford which will make for a competitive race on November 7th. There is no October 3rd preliminary assessor race because there are only two candidates.
Editor note: normally we put a photo of both candidates running for office, but the only public image of Martin Treadup is a tiny one on the City of New Bedford’s website. It’s too small to feature.
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