Short Notice: Board Seat Replacement

From the News-Gazette: 3 Dems apply for District 10 county board seat

Three Urbana Democrats have applied to replace Chris Alix, also an Urbana Democrat, on the Champaign County Board. 

One of the three — Tanisha King-Taylor, Christopher Stohr or Durl Kruse — likely will be chosen Monday night when Democratic precinct committeemen within county board District 10 meet. 

The meeting is at 7 p.m. at the county Democratic headquarters, 110 S. Neil St., C.
Stohr, a committeeman in the Cunningham 12 precinct in east Urbana, has the greatest number of votes to cast among the nine committeemen who will select the new board member. He has 627 weighted votes of the more than 3,100 available. He is a business owner and former staff member at the Illinois State Geological Survey. He also is secretary of the county Democratic Party. 

Kruse in the past has run for Urbana City Council and mayor of Urbana, but lost both times. 

King-Taylor, in her application for the position, said that she has not run for an office before but that she serves on the board of directors of both the YWCA and the Don Moyer Boys & Girls Club. She is director of the tenant union at the University of Illinois.

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Also from the News-Gazette: http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2017-10-17/champaign-county-democratic-party-officer-chosen-fill-board-seat.html

Chris Stohr, the secretary of the Champaign County Democratic Party and a founding member of the East Urbana Neighborhood Association, was appointed Monday night to complete the term of Chris Alix, another Urbana Democrat, on the Champaign County Board.

Stohr, 68, a retired geologist at the Illinois State Geological Survey, was chosen at a meeting of Democratic precinct committeemen from County Board District 10. He was named over two other candidates, Durl Kruse and Tanisha King-Taylor.

Maryam Ar-Raheem, chair of the county Democratic Party, did not disclose the weighted score that each of the candidates received. Although the candidates made their presentations in an open session, precinct committeemen held their deliberations in a closed session...

Stohr, an Urbana resident since 1980, is expected to be seated at Thursday's county board meeting, replacing Alix, who resigned because of an increased workload at his business.