Albany Mayor Sheehan Will Run for a Third Term By Susan Arbetter City of Albany PUBLISHED 7:00 PM ET Dec. 21, 2020 PUBLISHED 7:00 PM EST Dec. 21, 2020 SHARE In an exclusive interview with Capital Tonight, Kathy Sheehan, the mayor of the city of Albany, announced she will be running for a third term. “Well Susan, I have decided that I am going to run for reelection. I really had planned to only serve two terms, and then 2020 happened, and I realized that the experience, the relationships that I have been able to build at the county level, at the state level, are really important right now as we move through this pandemic and try to rebuild our economy in the city of Albany,” Sheehan explained.