Palmetto Bay Vice Mayor Election Headed For Runoff

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MIAMI (CBSMiami) –  Palmetto Bay voters will be headed back to the polls for a Vice-Mayoral runoff election after none of the candidates received 50-percent of the vote.

First-term Palmetto Bay Vice Mayor John Dubois received 41-percent, his challengers Erica Watts and David Zisman received 36-percent and 23-percent respectively.

That run-off election between DuBois and Watts will take place Tuesday, November 22nd.

Throughout the race, Dubois was running with target on his back. At its center is accused pedophile, Stanley "Junior" Kowlessar. Kowlessar allegedly broke into a neighbor's Palmetto Bay home in the middle of the night in February, 2015, sexually molesting a nine-year-old girl in her bed.

Kowlesssar needed a place to live, after being ordered by a judge to remain at least 500 feet away from his alleged victim. In court, Vice Mayor Dubois spoke up for the alleged molester - the son of Stanley Kowlessar Sr., a Dubois friend and supporter.

Kowlessar eventually went to live in Dubois' multi-million dollar bayfront home.

Eventually, Dubois found Kowlessar a new place to live - in the home of a supporter a few blocks away.

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