Skip Alston To Make It An Even Dozen As Chairman

Brought to you by the Rhino Times There will be some new faces on the Guilford County Board of Commissioners in December – but the person occupying the center seat on the dais will be very familiar. Chairman Skip Alston will once again be elected to lead the board for another year. And this time, the board won’t merely have a solid Democratic majority. It’ll be solid Democrats. Alston has informed the Rhino Times that he intends to seek that office again and that is the exact same thing as saying he will be elected again to the seat. When it comes to power in Guilford County government, Alston holds a whole lot of the cards. Following the Tuesday, Nov. 3 election losses of Republican Commissioners Alan Perdue and Pat Tillman, all nine commissioners will be Democrats when the new board takes office in December. That’ll be the first entirely Democratic Guilford County Board of Commissioners this century.

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