Four of the six councilpersons that I voted for won (all the incumbants won :()
In neighboring Detroit, I’m hoping challenger Freeman Hendrix whoops Hip-hop Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s butt, but as the ballots are counted, the race is becoming tighter and tighter (Hendrix is still ahead, though). This probably won’t be called til Wednesday, if even then. There’s so much naughty stuff going on with the ballots.
Projet Montréal (the tramway people) elected a councillor and got a respectable portion of the vote. Not bad for a party that’s only existed for a year.
18-year-old elected mayor.
http://www.detnews.com/2005/metro/0511/09/0met-377073.htm
Now that is a resume-builder.
Wow, that is interesting, Happy Lendervedder.
We only had a mayoral election and some school board positions last night in good ol’ St. Paul, MN. The guy I voted for did win, ousting an incumbent in a re-election for the first time in 33 years.
The incumbent (Randy Kelly) made a lot of people mad when he endorsed Bush for re-election, despite being a Democrat himself.
No people on my ballot. Just the governor’s pet propositions, all of which were rejected.
I’m not a Virginian, but I live next to Virginia, which means I got to see all of Jerry Kilgore’s toxic, reprehensible, Godwinizing ads. I am so glad that [insert stream of obscenities] lost!
Nope, the incumbent mayor won re-election. I can kiss softball goodbye next year, as there will be no field on which to play, thanks to the current administration. The pet projects will continue to benefit, while the rest of the things that need attention get ignored.
Everything else went largely uncontested.
I was hoping that Freeman Hendrix would become the mayor of Detroit, but incumbent mayor Kwame Kilpatrick won. Kwame’s first term was an endless steam of financial impropriety, nepotism, and cronyism. The guy is a joke, but he has charisma, and ultimately the “Hip-Hop mayor” pulled in enough young voters to overcome the older, smarter voters who realize what a useless grifter he is. Oh well. Hopefully, Detroit won’t go into receivership until after the Superbowl 
Yes, indeed! I haven’t felt this good after Election Day for a long time.
The mayor I wanted to win, won, and so did two out of three of the councilmembers. The third got the most votes, but not a majority so will be in a runoff with his closest challenger.
All in all, a very good showing. Most of my candidates were parks and recreation area friendly, their opponents were more developer friendly (none are developer-unfriendly, really). One tried to ride the eminent domain thing to success and it didn’t fly, I suspect because there hasn’t been a lot of eminent-domaining going on locally. Most pleasing was the candidate who announced his number-one priority was God. He tied for last place.
Yes and by a friggin landslide. Incumbant DFLer Randy Kelly lost out to newcomer Chris Coleman who also is a DFLer. Kelly supported Bush and welcomed him to our city during Bush’s last campaign thru Minnesota. Which happened to be the main reason why people voted against him.
Speaking of that, I got a call from some Democrat organization (I don’t remember which one) talking about how important it was to go out and vote. Both mayoral candidates in both of the Twin Cities were DFLers. I was curious what, exactly, they thought was at risk if enough Dems didn’t turn out to vote.
Both Hillary Clinton and Jon Corzine called me at home on Monday to let me know that the democrats really needed my vote for the gubernatorial election. Thanks to me, Corzine won. 
Yes. We elected a mayor and three city council people (me being one – woo hoo!).
The old mayor had resigned. Our new mayor decided to run because the only other candidate was a guy who has several dogs. Dog Man was upset because the city council finally passed a resolution saying that dogs had to have ID collars and had to be kept under control at all times. He didn’t want to do that, so he was going to get himself elected mayor and repeal the rule.
He was defeated, 90 votes to 5. The 5 adds up to the number of people in Dog Man’s family.
Politics.
I was going to say roughly the same thing. Our local school board had 3 positions open and of the two people I voted for, one is now on the board.
In any case, I’m most pleased about 74, particularly because our principal last year tried to fire a couple of teachers, more or less out of the blue, and I would hate to see that succeed in the future.
Well Garry Marshall courteously left a message on the machine, while Arnold called on a weekend, during lunch. Look what happened to him.
I was working on the Kaine campaign, and Kaine won. I’m happy!
In a plot twist that shocked no one, my candidate Bloomberg was reelected mayor of NYC.
Sadly, my pick for public advocate, the subway gunman Bernie Goetz, lost.
Still, pulling the lever for a convicted vigilante rocked.
One race hasn’t been decided yet, but at least one of my county board candidates won.
I am disappointed with the town board election. They elected all Republicans. It’s not so much that Republicans are in charge – they have been before – but their winning really saddened me, since it means that the local electorate is stupid and shortsighted, and that responsible government may no longer be possible in America.
You see, the big issue was revaluation. The town was way overdue for a revaluation, so the last town board finally decided to get it done. And they were attacked with the argument that this would raise taxes.
It would for some people (probably for me, since I’ve lived in the same house for over 25 years); it wouldn’t for others. And it was the right and fair thing to do: I should not pay lower taxes for a house of equivalent value as one where the owner moved in last year.
Alas, the electorate could only conentrate on the potential of higher taxes, and don’t give a damn about continuing to screw new home owners. It’s everyone for himself, and that’s not how a democratic society can survive.
We didn’t have too many people on the ballot, mostly municipal judges. Did OK there. The three incumbents for the school board were reelected (I voted for 2 of the 3). City council had four candidates for four seats. They won.
We had five state issues; the ones I cared about the most were the four “election reform” issues, which - thank Og! - were defeated. I think the intent was good, but one was redundant to legislation that just passed (making absentee voting easier) and the other three contained some very complex specifics that would have been enshrined in the constitution. I’ve lived with implementing very specific legislation and that sucks; can’t even imagine having to implement such specific provisions with the only option for changing requiring another set of statewide referenda.
Our smoking ban passed (Columbus is already non-smoking; I live literally next door) and our school levy passed.
So it was actually a pretty good election for me.
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