
{"id":25877,"date":"2012-05-10T10:40:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T14:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=25877"},"modified":"2012-05-10T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T19:34:00","slug":"incumbent-commissioners-defeated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2012\/05\/10\/incumbent-commissioners-defeated\/","title":{"rendered":"Incumbent commissioners defeated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Rich1_web.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Rich1_web\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Rich1_web.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Rich1_web-113x75.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Rich1_web-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Rich1_web-100x66.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Rich1_web-360x239.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>By Taylor Sisk<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Staff Writer<\/em><br \/>\nWith three seats on the Orange County Board of Commissioners being contested in Tuesday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Democratic primary, voters signaled a desire for change. Challengers Penny Rich and Mark Dorosin edged out incumbent Pam Hemminger for the two seats available in the District 1 race, and challenger Renee Price easily defeated incumbent Steve Yuhasz for the one open seat in District 2.<\/p>\n<p>While Price will now go up against Republican Chris Weaver in the November general election, there is no Republican challenger to the District 1 seats. Democrat Bernadette Pelissier, who was unopposed in the primary, will face Republican challenger Mary Carter for one available at-large seat.<\/p>\n<p>In District 1, Dorosin, a former member of the Carrboro Board of Aldermen, finished with 10,474 votes (36 percent); Rich, a Chapel Hill Town Council member, 9,709 (33 percent); and Hemminger, 9,167 (31 percent). <\/p>\n<p>In District 2, Price earned 6,237 votes (67 percent) and Yuhasz received 3,099 (33 percent).<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I&#8217;m just ecstatic,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Price told a crowd of Democrats gathered Tuesday night at The Depot in Hillsborough. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I&#8217;m almost at a loss for words.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The District 1 race was tight all night, with Dorosin maintaining a slight lead throughout and Rich just barely holding off Hemminger.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I kind of expected it to be tight,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Rich said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153All three of us have name recognition.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Of her decision to jump from the Chapel Hill Town Council to the board of commissioners, Rich said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It just hit me in the face that the time was right,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d citing her perception of an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153unnecessary wedge between city and rural folks\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that she felt she could help remove.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I thought it would be good to have someone on the board with a municipal perspective,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Communications between the commission and the municipal boards must be improved, and the interests of rural and municipal residents shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be viewed as mutually exclusive, Rich said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We benefit from each other.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Both Rich and Dorosin said they felt that, especially if Price wins in the general election, the board would be charting a new course.<figure id=\"attachment_25879\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25879\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Dorosin2_web.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Dorosin2_web\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Dorosin2_web.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Dorosin2_web-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Dorosin2_web-75x113.jpg 75w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Dorosin2_web-66x100.jpg 66w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25879\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Dorosin does some last-minute campaigning at Lake Hogan Farms on Tuesday.  Photo by Alicia Stemper <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think what the commission really needs is to be re-energized,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dorosin said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153and I hope I can provide that.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153My experience as a civil rights lawyer I think will be invaluable,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dorosin, who is senior managing attorney with UNC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Center for Civil Rights, continued, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153and my experience as a longtime business owner in downtown Chapel Hill I think will bring a practical perspective that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been missing.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think the people of Orange County need more contact with their commissioners,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Rich said.<\/p>\n<p>Dorosin agreed: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Leaders who are committed and have vision and are listening to the priorities and the needs of the community can make positive, meaningful, effective change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But that can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be done without community engagement, he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something I hope to make a priority.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We pride ourselves in this community on a high level of political engagement, which we have,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dorosin said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153but I think we have it from a fairly narrow spectrum of the people who live here, and hopefully I can help broaden that spectrum.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Yuhasz said on Wednesday that while he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel his and Hemminger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s defeats could be attributed to a general anti-incumbent impulse, he did believe that the commission has asserted itself in the past couple of years to an extent it hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t in the past \u00e2\u20ac\u201c noting, as an example, an easing of land-use restrictions \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and that perhaps people in the southern part of the county haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t appreciated that. This, he said, probably hurt Hemminger, whose district covers that population.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think it will be a much different board than it has been,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Yuhasz said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll go back to the way things were done for 25 years,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d prior to this commission.<\/p>\n<p>Dorosin cited reparations for the Rogers Road community and finding a solution for the county\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s solid waste as his top priorities. <\/p>\n<p>Rich listed the same priorities, plus education and mass transit. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We must put mass transit on the block for people to understand,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153But the biggest issue is really bridging the rural-city gap,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Rich said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really about communications.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With three seats on the Orange County Board of Commissioners being contested in Tuesday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Democratic primary, voters signaled a desire for change. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":25878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25877"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25884,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25877\/revisions\/25884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}