Gibson: "I'll be back"
Paul Gibson lost his bid to chair the Guilford County Board of Commissioners this year. Another chairman won't be elected until late 2006, but that hasn't stopped the Democrat from declaring his candidacy.
"I'll be back, baby," he avowed last week, evoking the deep baritone of a certain West Coast governor.
But seriously, folks. Gibson, who was elected to a four-year term in 2004, says he ran for office to lead the board, and that didn't change when Carolyn Coleman was elected chairwoman earlier this month.
The commissioners pick a chairman every December, so Gibson will have at least two more more shots at a position that's akin to being mayor of Guilford County.
"I did want to be chairman and I do want to be chairman," he said, "but if I never get to be chairman, that's fine too."