Feeds‘King team’ fails to win primary vote
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The "King Team" hosted a party Tuesday night for the primary election, however, only two members of the team-Phil Hart and Jeff Jahr-will go on to the November election.The ‘King Team’ has been dethroned.
The ballots have been tallied but unlike the last primary, the King team did not make a clean sweep at the polls and incumbent Supervisor Cindy King’s name will not appear on the General Election ballot.
Going into the November elections will be: Paul White as the Democratic candidate and Larry Fix as the Republican candidate for supervisor; Treasurer Sharry Budd; Leon Wright as the Democratic candidate and Felicia Paris-Brooks as the Republican candidate for clerk, and Judy Johnson and Sylvia Shippy as the Republican candidates for trustee, along with Democratic candidates Phil Hart, Jeff Jahr, Albert Ostrowski and Denise Partridge.
The polls officially closed at 8 p.m. Tuesday, leaving the votes to be totaled at approximately 9 p.m. The unofficial vote total was 15,579.
King, who received an unofficial count of 1,150 votes, called White to congratulate him on the win when she found out she didn’t pull through to the general election.
“I still want to see a Democrat in office,” she said. “People obviously wanted a change and that’s their prerogative.”
King said she started early Tuesday morning arriving at the polls at 6:45 a.m. This was her fifth campaign, including both clerk and supervisor races.
White unofficially received 1,468 votes, while Fix received 380 votes unofficially and Ann Frances Fioritto received 240 votes.
Incumbent Joannie Payne finished unofficially with 1,238, Wright received 1,311 votes and Paris-Brooks had an unofficial total of 562 votes.
In the trustees race: Hart finished unofficially with 1,198 votes, Jahr with 1,009 votes, Partridge with 1,446 votes, Ostrowski with 981 votes, Johnson with 512 votes, Shippy with 410 votes, Lianne Clair with 898 votes, Walter Rochowiak with 950 votes, John Herman with 930 votes and Kenneth Landstrom with 896 votes.
Hart said he will continue to do good work if elected again and in November, there will be another tough race he intends to take head-on.
Clair said at least she was able to serve the voters for the time she was in public office.
“People have an interest in local government with the number of candidates who decided to run, it shows that and that, I do like,” she said. “At Fire Station One it looked like there was a relatively low turnout, but it’s interesting to see that in other areas there were big turnouts, but overall, it’s always a disappointment when there’s not a bigger voter turnout.”
In November, voters will also be introduced to independent candidate for trustee Chesley Odom.
