Thanks to the outstanding legwork of San Bernardino Sun reporter Robert Rogers for breaking this story in the Sun's print editions as well as the Sun's weblog, SBnow.

Julie Frazier-Mathews, a top staffer in the office of San Bernardino City Mayor Pat Morris, will not run for Rialto City Clerk after all, as she had been planning to do so.  Frazier-Mathews was the subject of a San Bernardino sun report in which she appeared to be planning a campaign for the position - albeit in a possibly ethically-questionable manner.

Today, however, Julie Frazier-Mathews was reported as telling the San Bernardino Sun "I'm totally committed to this administration and the city of San Bernardino, and I have no intentions or desires of running for city clerk in the city of Rialto in 2008."

Rialto's incumbent City Clerk is Barbara McGee, who was re-elected without opposition in 2004. It is unclear at this time if Ms. McGee will stand again as a candidate for Rilato City Clerk.

If Barbara McGee does indeed run again, she now has one less potential challenger to worry about.