{"id":2928,"date":"2010-11-03T01:01:45","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T08:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=2928"},"modified":"2010-11-03T19:26:17","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T02:26:17","slug":"mcleod-anxious-to-get-started-as-lewis-county-coroner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=2928","title":{"rendered":"Election: McLeod anxious to get started as Lewis County coroner; Hurley concedes race"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lewis County coroner candidate Warren McLeod talks with supporters after learning the election numbers Tuesday night. Next to him is Maleea Morales, a Centralia fifth-grader who got school credit for assisting with McLeod's campaign<\/p><\/div>\n

By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker
\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n

This news story was updated with a concession from Hurley at 9:10 a.m. today Wednesday Nov. 3, 2010<\/em><\/p>\n

CHEHALIS – Lewis County will be getting a new coroner after almost 30 years and it looks like it will be Warren McLeod.<\/p>\n

Community college instructor McLeod has captured almost 55 percent of the votes while retired DEA agent Micheal Hurley got just over 45 percent.<\/p>\n

There are still more ballots to be counted, and Lewis County Auditor Gary Zandell says it “arithmetically possible” for the lead to switch.<\/p>\n

McLeod however, was ecstatic.<\/p>\n

“I have almost 55 percent of the vote, it means I got the message out,” he said Tuesday night at the Historic Courthouse in Chehalis.<\/p>\n

The 51-year-old said he sees a lot of work ahead so he can hit the ground running in January. He said he doesn’t know yet what kind of transition outgoing coroner Terry Wilson is interested in.<\/p>\n

He’ll work with Wilson, “as much as he’ll work with me,” McLeod said. “I’ll get in touch with him.”<\/p>\n

McLeod worked at the corners office in Las Vegas, Nevada, for almost 10 years before moving to Chehalis in December 2008 when he took a job as a professor of forensics at South Puget Sound Community College in Olympia.<\/p>\n

Hurley, a Mossyrock resident, didn’t come to the courthouse to hear the ballot count.<\/p>\n

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Micheal Hurley<\/p><\/div>\n

He said he was attending a a veterans function, a commitment he made some time ago. Hurley didn’t return a phone call for comment Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Hurley conceded this morning with the following\u00a0 brief message: “I lost, but won my freedom,” he wrote. “I met some very good people during this journey and met others who I am glad I don’t have to put up with for the next four years.”<\/p>\n

With retired Centralia police officer Bradd Reynolds as his campaign manager, the 70-year-old raised $7,014, according to information available this weekend from the state Public Disclosure Commission. Hurley loaned $4,329 of that to his campaign.<\/p>\n

McLeod has raised $6,247. His campaign manger Steve Carmick, retired Chehalis attorney, accompanied him to the courthouse tonight<\/p>\n

The initial tally gives McLeod 10,346 votes and Hurley 8,477<\/p>\n

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Read more about election night and the races for Lewis County sheriff and Lewis County prosecutor by scrolling down.<\/p>\n

Look at all the preliminary election results available on the Auditors Office<\/a> website.<\/p>\n

Look up details on how much money each candidate has raised and spent by looking at PDC reports<\/a> available from the Public Disclosure Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter This news story was updated with a concession from Hurley at 9:10 a.m. today Wednesday Nov. 3, 2010 CHEHALIS – Lewis County will be getting a new coroner after almost 30 years and it looks like it will be Warren McLeod. Community college instructor McLeod has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-2928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-story","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2928"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2988,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions\/2988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}