Wyandotte County Unified Government commissioners, who took opposing votes on the recent contentious debate on exceeding Revenue Neutral and imposing higher property taxes on residents, each advanced to the November runoff for their positions.
The top two finishers in the non-partisan primaries earn spots on the November ballot.
Commissioner Philip Lopez, who voted “No” on the tax increase and who left his District 6 seat to run for an At-Large District 2 position, finished second in his primary. Lopez received 1,163 votes to Andrew Kump’s 1,354.
8th District Commissioner Andrew Davis, who supported the measure that could impose a 17% increase in the property tax, finished first in his four-way primary with 40% of the vote. Davis finished with 616 votes to Jacob Handy’s 393.
Two other supporters of the tax increase, Gayle Townsend in the 1st District and Mike Kane in the 5th, each declined to run for another term…