Kurt
In the Akron City Council Democratic Primary on Tuesday, Sandra Kurt — previously discussed at Law Dork — won with nearly half the votes cast in the five-person race and ended the night with nearly double the votes of her nearest competitor:
City of Akron Ward 8 Council
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(WITH 21 OF 21 PRECINCTS COUNTED)
SANDRA KURT . . . . . . . . . 1,122 49.56
BRUCE BOLDEN . . . . . . . . . 566 25.00
RAYMOND COX . . . . . . . . . 348 15.37
WILL PADILLA . . . . . . . . . . 196 8.66
MARIAN L. SHANK . . . . . . . 32 1.41
Congratulations Sandra, a successful openly LGBT Ohio candidate! Cox, who came in third Tuesday, had been appointed to the position earlier this year, so — technically — Kurt already has unseated the incumbent. Kurt now will face Republican Elizabeth Berry Smith, who garnered 355 votes as the sole candidate in the Republican primary, in November.
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Chris Geidner is the award-winning senior political writer at D.C.'s Metro Weekly and has written for The Atlantic Online, Advocate.com, Salon and other publications, as well as at his blog, Law Dork. In 2011, he received the Excellence in News Writing Award from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association for his coverage of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeal. Prior to moving to D.C. in 2009, he served as an attorney on the senior staff at the Ohio Attorney General's Office and had earlier worked for a leading Columbus law firm. An extended biography can be found
Good news for Akron. I’m very happy.