Dennis Roohr

January 23, 2008 - 9:28am

GOP wins New Hanover special election

GOP incumbent Dennis Roohr was re-elected to the New Hanover Township Committee yesterday, defeating Democrat Sharon Atkinson by a 191-176 margin in a special election to break a 170-170 tie in the November 2007 contest.  This is the second Republican victory this month in tie-breaker elections; the GOP won a mayoral race in Matawan.

This was the first electoral test of the new Burlington GOP Chairman, Bill Layton.  Atkinson had the active support of Democratic County Chairman Rick Perr.

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