Some Good News: Foxx (D) Elected Charlotte's mayor

yodermon

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Tue Nov-03-09 10:32 PM
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Some Good News: Foxx (D) Elected Charlotte's mayor

Edited on Tue Nov-03-09 10:34 PM by yodermon

woo hoo! And it was a close one too.

Anthony Foxx was elected mayor of Charlotte on Tuesday, defeating John Lassiter and putting a Democrat in the city's top elected position for the first time in 22 years.

Lassiter conceded to Foxx shortly before 10:15 p.m., even taking a phone call from the winner while giving his concession speech on live TV.

With unofficial returns from 168 of the city's 169 precincts, Foxx had 51.3 percent of the vote, to 48.6 percent for Lassiter. A margin of about 3,000 votes out of more than 106,000 separated the two men.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/breaking/story/1035240.html

Bragging rights: Anthony Foxx was a classmate of mine for 2 years at Davidson College. :) He was the first African American elected to student body president there :D .

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Sebass1271

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Tue Nov-03-09 10:36 PM
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1. Awesome! Congrats to your friend!. : )

how old is he? he sounds to be young.

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Tue Nov-03-09 10:39 PM
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2. So, I guess that means that America loves President Obama

Pretty clear message there, right political pundits of the popular media?

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