Jon Greiner's election to the Utah Senate caused his firing as Ogden police chief. Philadelphia transit cop Matthew Arlen was barred from a local school board race in Pennsylvania. And New York state port official Terrence Hurley was knocked out of a county race.
Terrence Hurley, 52, a state port financial official in Albany, N.Y., was knocked out of a race for his county's legislative body last year because a dock was repaired with a $5.1 million federal stimulus grant.