Nov 04 2009
Knight Wins Greensboro Mayor’s Race
Charlotte may have taken a left turn last night, but Greensboro went the other direction and elected a fiscally conservative newcomer.
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
