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david
| Tue, Nov 3, 2009
12:57 PM EST
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10 Comments . Comments are closed.North Adams: Barrett loses
PCTV in Pittsfield reports that Dick Alcombright has defeated longtime Mayor John Barrett (I believe they showed) 58.4% to 41.6%. Barrett was the most senior mayor in MA and had received support from other MA mayors who held a fundraiser for him earlier in the election season.
Pittsfield: Ruberto retains corner office
PCTV unofficial results for Pittsfield show incumbent Mayor Jim Ruberto winning over challenger Dan Bianchi. Ruberto 6648 to Bianchi 6449. All precincts reporting.
Oct. 16 campaign spending report showed Ruberto spending nearly $70,000. Bianchi reported spending about $24,000.
slight correction
that should say 6658 to 6449
In either case
:(
Well, this hasn't been much fun so far tonight
Virginia I didn't expect to stay blue, but I was hoping Corzine would pull it out in New Jersey.
Maine is so close -50%/50%. A sanctimonious bastard spokesperson for the discrimination campaign there was just on TV projecting confidence for his fellow bigots. Ugh.
I'm a pessimist about human nature. People seem naturally primed to discriminate against those they perceive as different from themselves. Tolerance and acceptance seem like a perpetual uphill fight. I hope to live to see full equality for glbt people all over America, but realistically, I think it may require the older generation still opposing equality to die off first.
Yes, NJ is a disappointment
But, the even bigger news is OUR bigger victory in NY 23!
Sarah Palin, go home!
And ME is looking good at this time...
Ugh
Maine is getting too close.
Sorry to hear of Maine (being close) and NJ/VA losses :(
But I've been busy celebrating with multiple glasses of wine over Lowell's results. Unfortunately, Question 1 (Choice Voting) went down...but we trounced the dude getting FBI-investigated (Kazanjian), another Good Ol Boy incumbent (Armand Mercier), and of course took the "open" seat on the Council...I think we can safely say "professional City Management" won today. When all is said and done, "sane" has a 6-3* margin on the Council after January. 7-2 if you count consummate flipper-flopper Rodney Elliot...who finished last (9th) and barely made it on.
Also, Regina "I'll rip your t*ts off" Faticanti LOST BIG TIME on the school committee (6 open seats, only one challenger) and Alison Laraba (first time challenger) made it on resoundingly. Bye bye fart-obsessed Regina! (I'm not joking, that was her favorite topic on WCAP back when she had a radio show there. Twice I flipped to the channel in a three month span and both times she was talking about farting.) Regina, by the way, has finished first place in previous elections. Her threats to the superintendent for which she is being criminally prosecuted for didn't do her a world of good. Class act, Faticanti...
Makes the School Committee a majority sane as well, thank goodness...best case scenario that Laraba replaces Faticanti.
Thirdly, Fred Bahou RESOUNDINGLY won first place on the regional tech school committee, and Hayden LOSTLOSTLOST. This was absolutely my absolute best case scenario. I would like to take credit for SOME of the 300 or so votes he lost by. Maybe not all but some. I think anti-immigrant rhetoric has no place in our schools. Thank god the voters thought so too (along with the cronyist salary increases of 9.5%/year the superintendent of that single school has gotten since 2005).
Hugest congrats to challengers Bahou, and Laraba and to new City Councilors elect Franky Descoteaux (my GOD! She's a blow-in even!), Patrick Murphy, and Joe Mendonca.
(BTW, all of the three challengers in the Council race who made it on, and all three incumbents that Move Lowell Forward endorsed, made the grade. We are very proud of the campaigns that they and other candidates ran this election season...the media guys called it the "most contested election in a long time" with good reason. Yay for democracy!)
Wow!
Hasn't Armand Mercier been on Council forever? I would never expect him to lose. I'm certainly glad Hayden and Faticanti did, though. I would peg Patrick Murphy as someone to watch. I found him interesting to listen to when he ran as an independent for Congress in 2007 and I could see him seeking higher (probably state legislative) office in the future, though preferably as a Democrat. I would agree that the Mill City did quite well for itself last night.
Yup, he lost to bottom-of-the-ticket....
...Rodney Elliot, by little more than a couple hundred votes. He might have beaten Elliot if he'd been able to campaign, but Mercier was ill, and he is not getting any younger. He did not do much in the way of anything for this campaign. So he lost instead of Elliot.
The fact that they were dancing for the #9 and 10 slots is telling though! Both were on the same "side" so to speak on some of the important issues of this election. That side did not do well.
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