Could Yevonne Brannon return to the Wake County board of commissioners as the replacement for Stan Norwalk?

Bob Geary is reporting online today in the liberal Independent weekly that Norwalk is stepping down this year as a county commissioner. Geary reports that Norwalk's home is on the market and that he plans to relocate to Kansas to be near one of his daughters as soon as it sells.

Geary is reporting that Norwalk is telling friends and fellow Democrats "that he wants his replacement to be, as he is, a strong voice for the Wake schools." It means being a supporter of the old diversity policy, among other things.