Commissioners Sworn In

November 19, 2008

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Three Escambia County commissioners were sworn in Tuesday morning.Former District 5 Commissioner Wilson Robertson was sworn in as the new commissioner in District 1. Robertson beat incumbent Mike Whitehead in the November 4 general election. District 5 Commissioner Kevin White and District 3 Commissioner Marie Young were also installed Tuesday morning with both having been re-elected to their post.

”First of all, I want to give credit to the Lord, because I would not be here without Him,” White said following his swearing in, “and second my family.””This job is hard on each of us, as well we know, but it is not near as hard on us as it is our families,” he said emotionally. “They suffer the most for what we go through. It’s not all peaches and cream like a lot of people think that it is.White said he was a bit surprised by his re-election, considering the history of voters in District 5.

“If you’d ask me a year ago if I would be sitting here again, I didn’t think so because the history in District 5, as Wilson well knows, is not real good at getting re-elected. They recycle them up there a lot,” White said, referring to the district’s history of not re-electing incumbents. Robertson, who now serves in District 1, was elected to a second term in District 5, but they were not consecutive terms.

“You have to go out for four years so they can forget some things, then come back and get re-elected,” Robertson joked, “cause you can’t pave every dirt road.”

Marie Young was elected by her fellow commissioners as the new chairperson, replacing Gene Valentino. Grover Robinson was named as vice chairman.

Pictured above: District 5 Commissioner Kevin White being sworn in for a second term Tuesday morning.

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