Fred Foster, who won a Democratic nomination for Durham county commissioner last week, is getting some support for taking his seat early.

Will Wilson, who finished sixth out of the 14 candidates, has endorsed Foster (right) to take over for Joe Bowser, who resigned from the county board after losing a bid for re-election.

Darius Little, who ran unsuccessfully for the City Council in 2009, has also said publicly that Foster should get the empty seat. Foster, currently president of the Durham NAACP chapter, finished second in the primary election. The top five candidates won spots on the November ballot and, so far, face no opposition candidates.

Who fills in from now until the new commissioners take office in December is up to the four remaining board members. State law requires they take a suggestion from the Durham County Democratic Party, since Bowser is a Democrat, but the commissioners are not bound to follow the party recommendation.

Durham County Board of Commissioners have elected Antonio Jones to the Durham Planning Commission, undoing their April 5 election of Darius M. Little.

Jones is a full-time student at N.C. Central University. He had received the planning commissioners' recommendation for the Oak Grove/Carr Township seat on the commission, but lost to Little in the commissioners' original vote.

The commissioners agreed to reconsider Little's election after allegations surfaced that Little had misrepresented himself as a lawyer and taken money for services he didn't provide. Little faces a felony charge of obtaining money by false pretense.

Darius Little, unsuccessful candidate for the Durham City Council last year, called on the Durham County commissioners this morning to "consider some kind of tax on non-Durham residents" who work in Durham County.

"In Durham, we are losing a lot of money," Little said, during a citizen-comment period at the commissioners work session. "The citizens need some help."

Specifically, he said parking tickets issued to non-residents go uncollected because there is no mechanism for enforcing collection outside the county; and sales tax from Raleigh-Durham International Airport that currently all goes to Wake County.

"We are being pimped out" at the airport, he said.

"I'm with you on this," said Commissioner Joe Bowser. "It's something I've pushed for."

Bowser has recommended some kind of commuter tax since first coming onto the county board in the mid-1990s, and last year revived a movement to let Durham share in the airport sales tax.