
{"id":2894,"date":"2008-06-26T07:17:56","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T15:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=2894"},"modified":"2008-06-26T07:17:56","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T15:17:56","slug":"yuhasz-donnan-win-runoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/06\/26\/yuhasz-donnan-win-runoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuhasz, Donnan win runoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hillsborough lawyer and land surveyer Steve Yuhasz won a runoff for the Democratic primary for the new District 2 seat on the Orange County Board of Commissioners.<\/p>\n<p>Yuhasz beat Leo Allison, gathering 1,486 votes, or 55.7 percent, of the total to Allison\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 1,183 votes, or 44.3 percent. Yuhasz had also won the previous round in a four-way contest, but failed to reach a high enough threshold to win the nomination outright. Allison called for the runoff.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe win on Tuesday means that Yuhasz has a clear path to the seat since he faces no Republican challenger<br \/>\nIn the Democratic primary runoff for labor commissioner, Mary Fant Donnan won the Democratic nomination for North Carolina labor commissioner, defeating John C. Brooks in Tuesday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s runoff. Donnan won 73.09 percent of the votes to Brooks\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 26.91 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Donnan finished first in the May primary over three other candidates but failed to receive enough votes to avoid a runoff with Brooks, the second-place finisher. She will now face Republican incumbent Cherie Berry, for whom Donnan once worked at the Dept. of Labor. Donnan currently is employed as a program officer for the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation in Winston-Salem.<\/p>\n<p>Only 74,758, or 1.89 percent, of nearly four million registered voters in North Carolina turned out for the runoff, a record low. In Orange County, 4,069 of 77,272 voters, or 5.27 percent, went to the polls.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201dStaff Reports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillsborough lawyer and land surveyer Steve Yuhasz won a runoff for the Democratic primary for the new District 2 seat on the Orange County Board of Commissioners. Yuhasz beat Leo Allison, gathering 1,486 votes, or 55.7 percent, of the total to Allison\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 1,183 votes, or 44.3 percent. Yuhasz had also won the previous round in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}