Donnan favorite among Rockingham voters

Tuesday, more than 70 percent of Rockingham County voters cast ballots for Mary Fant Donnan, Democratic candidate for state commissioner of labor, during the second primary of the year. In the county, she got 217 votes.
Donnan got more than 67 percent of statewide votes, securing the Democratic nomination over John C. Brooks, who got 92 votes in Rockingham County. Donnan, a program officer of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation in Winston-Salem received 43,217 total votes verses 20,445 to Brooks, attorney with the N.C. Industrial Commission and former N.C. Commissioner of Labor from 1977 to 1993. The statewide voter turnout Tuesday was less than 2 percent.