Burroughs, 32, replaces former Chair Jolene Ivey who announced last month she’d be suspending her campaign for the county executive seat, originally citing “personal, financial and practical” reasons.
While the immediate impact won’t be so noticeable, the change in leadership — and eventually the likely addition of Shayla Adams-Stafford to the county council in June — will likely result in a more significant and activist lurch to the left.
The ascension of Burroughs became preordained once Adams-Stafford won a special election for the council’s District 5 earlier this month. Burroughs had been serving as vice chair since December, when no one on the 10-member council could get the six votes needed to become chair, leaving Ivey in place…