Mallory declares victory

State Sen. Mark L. Mallory just arrived at the Board of Elections to greet the waiting television cameras.

"We're going to keep doing what we've been doing, which is to talk about leadership, and talk about consensus-building," he said. "People have seen that there's a mess at City Hall for quite some time, and I haven't been a part of that mess."

He said he had not yet talked to his opponents in the race, but would make the calls in the next 20 minutes.