{"id":3419,"date":"2010-11-24T10:08:35","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T18:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=3419"},"modified":"2010-11-24T12:37:11","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T20:37:11","slug":"golden-on-election-loss-the-peoples-votes-were-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=3419","title":{"rendered":"Golden on election loss: The people’s votes were clear"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

CHEHALIS – Final results show defense attorney Jonathan Meyer beat incumbent Lewis County Prosecutor Michael Golden in the Nov. 2 election with 67 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n

Golden, who won the office four years ago, had very little to say about the outcome.<\/p>\n

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Michael Golden<\/p><\/div>\n

“I think that people’s votes were clear, come Jan. 1, they’ll have a new prosecutor in the county, and hopefully things will work out well for the county,” Golden said yesterday after the election was certified.<\/p>\n

Following the August primary, the Chehalis-area Republican attributed his poor showing against the challenger as the public not knowing much about the race until just before the ballots came out.<\/p>\n

It’s a reversal from 2006 when initial tallies in the race for prosecutor gave then-Lewis County Prosecutor’s Office civil attorney Golden an overwhelming lead with almost 64 percent over Centralia attorney Don Blair.<\/p>\n

Meyer won this year’s August primary election with almost 65 percent of the vote and then preliminary counts on Nov. 2’s election night gave Meyer just over 66 percent.<\/p>\n

Golden declined to speculate on what may have caused his overwhelming loss.<\/p>\n

“I think the people you need to ask are the voters, come Jan. 1, my personal life will be my personal life again.”<\/p>\n

He didn’t say what he expected he would be doing after he leaves office.<\/p>\n

Golden did suggest he’ll be in his office throughout the end of the year to make sure “things will be in shape” for Jan. 1.<\/p>\n

The final tally gave Meyer 67.06 percent with 18,333 votes and Golden 32.94 percent with 9,005 votes.<\/p>\n

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See all the final election results here<\/a><\/p>\n

Read election night news story “Election: New prosecutor Meyer is “humbled” he says” from Tuesday Nov. 2, 2010 here<\/a><\/p>\n

Read pre-general election story about the race for prosecutor from Saturday Oct. 30, 2010 here<\/a><\/p>\n

Read pre-primary story about the race for prosecutor from Sunday Aug. 15, 2010 here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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