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THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 2012

STATE HOUSE 52nd District 53rd District 54th District 55th District

ELECTION RESULTS

Mark Ouimet (R) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,577 Gretchen Driskell (D) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,407 Jeff Irwin (D) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,541 Thomas Partridge (D). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725 Jon Spisak (R)1,176 Bill Emmerich (R) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713 David Rutledge (D) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,555 Andrea Brown-Harrison (D) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,133 Adam Zemke (D) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,439 Owen Diaz (R) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,616

Voters decide races in area townships

By Krista Gjestland
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COUNTY COMMISSIONERS District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4 District 5 District 6 District 7 District 8 District 9
Rob Turner (R) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,638 Kent Martinez-Kratz (D) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,710 Dan Smith (R) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,667 Alicia Ping (R) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,047 Wesley Prater (D) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,330 Felicia Brabec (D) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,207 Richard Conn (R) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787 Roland Sizemore (D) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506 Richard Clark Deitering (R) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322 Ronnie Peterson (D) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,688 David Raaaub (R) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 Christine Montague (D) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,158 Andy LaBarre (D) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,198 David Parker (R) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707 Joe Baublis (R) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 Yousef Rabhi (D) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,361 Conan Smith (D) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,938 John Floyd (R) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672

Augusta Township had several candidates put their names in for civil service during this years primary elections. Pete Hafler won the Democrat nomination for township supervisor with 47 percent of the townships votes. Hafler, the incumbent, beat fellow Democrat candidates William Tobler, who had 41 percent of the votes and Richard Tsvetanoff, who Haer garnered 10 percent of the vote. Brian Shelby won the Republican nomination for township supervisor by snagging 58 percent of the votes. Shelby beat out fellow Republican candidate Kathleen Jackson, who had 41 percent of the vote. Kathleen McDonald won the Republican nomination for township clerk with 51

percent of the votes, beating out Linda Adams. Incumbent Kathy Giszczak won the Democrat nomination over Iva Bielec with 52 percent of the votes. Lynda H. Dew won the Democrat nomination for township treasurer over incumbent Susan Burek with 50 percent of the votes. Nevel Overton Slack won the Republican nomination uncontested. Ira Todd, Cath Howard, Joseph Keefe and Laverne Kailimai won the Democrat nomination for township trustee with 17, 16, 16 and 15 percent of the votes respectively . Douglas Newsome, Dennis Chie, Michael J. King and Dwight Parris Bennet won the Republican nomination for township
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the vote. Murdock went up against fellow Democrat candidates Mike Eller, who got According to unofficial 33 percent of the votes, and results from the Ted Windish, Washtenaw County who garnered 6 clerks office, percent of the Ypsilanti voters votes. chose incumbents Murdock said Pete Murdock, Ward this years pri3, and Lois Allen mary election Richardson, Ward 2, was a close one and Susan Moeller, for him. Ward 1, to vie for city This was council in November. Murdock an interesting Murdock, who race, and it was has served on city council a tough one, Murdock said. and mayor for 17 years, won Were happy were through Ward 3 with 60 percent of it and pleased that we won
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by the margin we won by . Richardson, who won 50 percent of Ward 1s votes, said she also had a difficult race, but she was self-confident. This race was different in any other race than Ive ran before, she said. But I walked through it very confident. I never thought that I wouldnt win. Richardson had two fellow Democrat candidates run for Ward 1. Steve Pierce received 32 percent of the wards vote, and Tyrone
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COUNTY OFFICES Clerk Treasurer Sheriff

Lawrence Kestenbaum (R) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,555 Stanley Watson (D) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,874 Catherine McClary (D). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,419 Marlene Chockley (R) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,039 Jerry Clayton (D) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,826 Jeffrey Gallatin (R) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,011 Brian Mackie (D) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,716 Evan Pratt (D) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,975 Harry Bentz (D) . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,122 Eric Scheie (R) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,816

Superior Township passes three millages

By Krista Gjestland
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Superior Township residents voted yes on all three millage proposals during the primary elections. Two millage renewals for fire and police services have been passed as well as a .25 millage to provide funds to defend the townships master plan and zoning ordinance in future litigation. The fire millage won 76 percent of the townships votes, the police renewal won 78 percent of the votes and the planning millage garnered 59 percent of the votes. Township Supervisor William McFarlane said the

.25 mils will help the township enforce its master plan when developers attempt to build outside of the townships sewer and water system. In our master plan, weve designated certain areas for our development, he said. Its when they go outside of the mast plan. They want to move a prime residential area into agricultural space. We feel that kind of dense development should go to our public sewer and water system. The .25 mils levied will charge residents .25 cents per $1,000 of taxable value for a period of three years. The township approximates $137,945 would be raised in

the first year through this millage. The fire millage is for 3.0 mils, or $3 per $1,000 of taxable value, and is a renewal of a previous millage that is expiring this year. The fire millage allows the township to run its fire services and is not an increase from the previous millage, McFarlane said. Superior Township has its own fire services and collaborates with Ann Arbor Township to help provide services to both areas. About 14 firefighters work to cover the areas. The police millage is another renewal for 2.25
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