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LONNY GOLDSMITH
Staff Writer
111 ilt Dzodin is out but
not down.
In a special primary
held Monday to narrow
the Democratic field for the 20th
District seat on the Oakland County
'-Board of Commissioners, Dzodin lost
to fellow Southfield resident Vince
Gregory, a Wayne County sheriff's
deputy.
The other Democrats who ran were
Peter Christiano, a former Southfield
city manager, and Aaron Kelly, a gov-
ernment relations liaison for Michigan
Consolidated Gas Co.
"It's not the first time I've lost,"
said Dzodin, the president and owner
of Oak Park's Michigan Silver
Exchange. "I figured I had a shot, and
at least I tried.
A special election will be held
March 2 to fill the remaining eight
months of the term of Democrat
Lawrence Pernick, who died suddenly
last year. Pernick held the 20th
District seat on the Board of
,-_ , - Commissioners for almost 30 years.
In the special election, Gregory will
face Roderick Fracassi, a Republican
who was appointed to fill Pernick's
seat after his death, and independent
Suzanne Goldstein, a former longtime
Southfield city councilwoman.
Gregory, who had the backing of
the Southfield/Lathrup Village
Democratic Club, won the primary
,-, ith 596 votes, 30 more than
Christiano. Dzodin had 290 votes.
Fracassi, son of Southfield Mayor
Donald Fracassi, ran unopposed. He
garnered 460 votes.
"Goldstein has great drawing
power," Dzodin said. "The last time
she ran (as a Democrat), she got more
votes than the mayor did."
While Dzodin feels that Goldstein
-nay draw Democratic votes from
Gregory, he will still support him.
"I'm not going to vote for someone
just because they are Jewish, too," he
said. "I'm going to vote for the best
candidate. I feel that Gregory is the
better candidate, but there's also some
loyalty to the party affiliation."
Gregory hopes that he will pull 90
to 100 percent of the votes that went
to his competitors in the primary.
Dzodin attributes his loss, in part,
to the weather. Only 1,983 of the
32,921 registered voters in the district
turned out at the polls.
"We had anticipated voter turnout
to be low, but not as low as it was,"
said the victorious Gregory. "We knew
all along it was going to be a tough
race, and that we'd have to work hard
to get votes."
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Milt Dzodin, perennial candidate.
Gregory said his key to victory was
not forgetting the Lathrup Village
portion of the district, which provided
him the margin of victory.
Dzodin, who has unsuccessfully
run for public office seven times, plans
on running for the same board seat
again later this year, when Pernick's
term is up. There will be another pri-
mary in August, with the winners
from each party meeting in the
November general election.
"It'll be easier to campaign in the
summer," Dzodin said. "I'll be able to
get out and meet the public: go through
the park, go to little league baseball
games and go door-to-door."
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