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  • Knight wins mayoral race [surprise conservative victory in Greensboro NC]

    11/04/2009 11:29:33 AM PST · by MitchellC · 4 replies · 594+ views
    (Greensboro) News & Record ^ | November 4, 2009 | Amanda Lehmert
    GREENSBORO — The City Council just got a lot more conservative — starting with the guy at the top. First-time mayoral candidate Bill Knight ousted incumbent Yvonne Johnson in Tuesday’s City Council election. The victory is the first by a challenger over an incumbent mayor since voters began electing the mayor at-large in 1973. Knight ran on a platform of fiscal conservatism and cleaning up the city’s police department. He will lead a council that, in the course of one election, now has a supermajority of registered Republicans. “The voters spoke to change,” Knight said. About 18 percent of the...