Election Results Thread

what races are you watching? (0.00 / 0)

TODAY is day one. It always is.

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by: phillip anderson @ Tue Nov 06, 2007 at 23:55:34 PM UTC

Andrew C. White!!!!!!!! (4.00 / 3)

We need a direct link to those results.

and of course my friends in Dutchess County. Sar Paski for Beacon City Council...Steve Gold for Mayor of Beacon...Joey R. for Dutchess County exec...as well as the county leg.

I'm really interested to see how the gov's troubles have impacted the day.

We've got some work ahead of us.

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by: NYBri @ Wed Nov 07, 2007 at 01:36:32 AM UTC

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yep. (0.00 / 0)

check your mail, btw.

i've linked andrew's race as best as i can, but i'm sure we'll hear from the man himself as soon as we have hard numbers.

andrew is definitely the race that would make me happiest to win. i told him as much about an hour ago...

TODAY is day one. It always is.

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by: phillip anderson @ Wed Nov 07, 2007 at 01:39:59 AM UTC

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Here's the BoE... (0.00 / 0)

link

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by: Andrew C. White @ Wed Nov 07, 2007 at 04:52:03 AM UTC

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My County Legislature... (4.00 / 1)

has three seats up for grabs. We have 7 Republicans and 0 Dems. We have three great Democrats running for office. Things are looking good. We'll see what 9 p.m. brings.

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by: robert.harding @ Wed Nov 07, 2007 at 00:01:44 AM UTC

which county? (0.00 / 0)

i'll add a link to their BoE.

TODAY is day one. It always is.

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by: phillip anderson @ Wed Nov 07, 2007 at 00:03:05 AM UTC

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Broome County (4.00 / 1)

has some very interesting judicial races.  Jerry Mollen is a popular Democratic incumbent as DA facing pretty stiff opposition.  We also have great candidates for the 6th district supreme court, county court, city councils, and a few other local races.

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by: BingChester @ Wed Nov 07, 2007 at 01:58:43 AM UTC

Mixed results (4.00 / 1)

Jerry cruised to re-election.  We lost the County Court and took one of three Supreme Court seats (Molly Fitzgerald). 

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by: BingChester @ Wed Nov 07, 2007 at 02:47:38 AM UTC

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Andrew White (4.00 / 4)

Valiant effort Andrew! 

Those numbers are really pretty good.  Many of the towns surrounding Stephentown did not even have a Democratic slate. 

Great job Andrew! 

Down here in Westchester, Republicans are heard mumbling, WTF, WTF, WTF.

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by: jmcbride @ Wed Nov 07, 2007 at 04:20:23 AM UTC

Donovan (R) holds SI DA seat (4.00 / 1)

Dan Donovan was re-elected to his Staten Island District Attorney office 68-32% in the lowest turnout in recent history in SI with about 28,000 votes out of the 245,000 registered voters in the borough. 

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by: jonah in nyc @ Wed Nov 07, 2007 at 04:23:05 AM UTC

Not so good in upstate NY (0.00 / 0)

Otsego County just went major backwards - repub all the way.  I have to go to bed now.  The govs plan to give licenses to illegal aliens really did not help in upstate politics.  Couldn't he have waited til next week to announce this plan? Aaaarggghhh.

I'm kinda cryin in my martini right now.  Will regroup tomorrow.

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by: sabershadow @ Wed Nov 07, 2007 at 04:49:22 AM UTC

Orleans County results (4.00 / 2)

(see here: http://orleansny.com...)

Well, we gained a few Democrats (and some won reelection) in town races. But in the all important County Legislature races, we only won one seat. That means we now have 6 Republicans and 1 Democrat.

By the way, anyone who points to the governor's driver's license plan as the problem upstate is a bit misguided, if not just dead wrong. It's just an ignorant statement to make when plenty of people, Democrats and Republicans alike, don't know what the hell they are talking about when it comes to that issue. That's the scary part of it all.

We are outnumbered here in Orleans County 2 to 1 by Republicans. This was going to be a challenge no matter what. In fact, one of our candidates, who supported Spitzer, received 42% of the vote while another person who was pretty silent on the issue received 37%.

What this came down to is voter turnout. Over 6,000 people voted in our two countywide "at large" races. We have close to 26,000 votes in this county. You're talking about less than a quarter of all our residents came out to vote in countywide elections. That's depressing.

And yet, I bet you we'll hear plenty of people complaining about taxes, etc. What a pile of hypocrites.

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by: robert.harding @ Wed Nov 07, 2007 at 05:15:19 AM UTC

Well, I don't know about your county, but in mine (0.00 / 0)

the auto message every republican got was "Every republican we elect this year tells Governor Spitzer we're gong to igt his plan to give drivers licenses to illegal aliens.  Plus we need your help to take our county board back ...." and that played a big role here.  So don't tell me I'm ignorant about my local politics!

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by: sabershadow @ Wed Nov 07, 2007 at 05:49:09 AM UTC

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Re: Well I don't know about your county... (0.00 / 0)

In my county, they personally attacked our three candidates two days before the election in our pennysaver.

Of course the GOP is going to use it, should that surprise you? They've only been using the driver's license thing against ANYONE who opposes them for the past few months! But what have the Democrats done?

Most of them jumped in line with the Republicans. Don't blame Spitzer here... blame the party. They failed you.

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by: robert.harding @ Wed Nov 07, 2007 at 16:10:57 PM UTC

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Well, I am the party. Are you an independant? (4.00 / 1)

Many of us worked our butts off to get our dems elected or re-elected.  And Gov. Spitzer, as head of the democratic party in NYS, made a tactical error in coming out with this plan BEFORE the election. 

I did not say the drivers licenses for illegal immigrants was the only problem or even the main problem with how people voted.  I said it did not help democrats with upstate voters.  I am not blaming Spitzer completely for our losses, but he bears some responsibilty and a percentage of blame, even if very small, is his. 

He must have known how much of a hot button issue this would be and he has to have some inkling how republican a lot of upstate NY is.  Getting or keeping dems elected is a delicate balancing act where I live.  We have to work hard to convince moderate republicans and independants to vote democratic.  Even a small matter will sway them back to voting blindly for a republican.  We have worked really hard to increase dems presence in the last few years, and that took a big setback last night.

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by: sabershadow @ Wed Nov 07, 2007 at 17:14:27 PM UTC

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Looks like Mejias is gonna hold on (4.00 / 1)

  COUNTY LEGISLATOR 14TH DISTRICT
  56 EDS COUNTED  57 EDS IN RACE
  CANDIDATE NAME  PARTY RESULTS CANDIDATE TOTAL

  DAVID L MEJIAS  D 5,847
DAVID L MEJIAS  W 261 6,108
  JOSEPH V BELESI  R 4,990
JOSEPH V BELESI  C 857 5,847

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by: Roatti @ Wed Nov 07, 2007 at 05:16:08 AM UTC

see my post on the FP (4.00 / 1)

this one looks to be going to court.

TODAY is day one. It always is.

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by: phillip anderson @ Wed Nov 07, 2007 at 05:17:21 AM UTC

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Let the GOP waste their resources on a fruitless challenge (0.00 / 0)

n/t

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by: Roatti @ Wed Nov 07, 2007 at 12:45:39 PM UTC

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Tompkins County results (4.00 / 4)

Bottom line summary: Seats changed in favor of Democrats in Dryden, Enfield, Lansing, and Newfield (in decreasing order of excitingness); no changes favored Republicans.

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All the City and Town of Ithaca positions were held by Democrats running unopposed, who of course won.  The Republican Town Committee has pretty much given up entirely; I'm not even sure there is a Republican City Committee anymore (and to think they had the Mayor's office before the last election).

Town of Caroline: Democrats won all the races, keeping control of the town council (all D).

Town of Danby: Incumbent Democrats won all the races.  (There was one town justice cross-endorsed by Democrats and Republicans, so I guess the Republicans won that one as well as the Democrats. ;-) )  Town council remains 2D-2R.

Town of Dryden:

The Democratic slate won for Town Supervisor and Town Council, which is *especially good news* (the Republicans for those seats ran a very dirty, content-free campaign).  This replaced a Republican supervisor and one Republican councilman.  The council is now 3D-1R.

The Republican candidates for Town Justice (contested) and Town Clerk (unopposed) won. 

Town of Enfield:
The Republican incumbents for Town Clerk and Town Justice won.  Democrat Frank Podufalski won Town Supervisor, replacing another Democrat.

The town council is the interesting part.  It has four members, previously three R and one D, half elected every two years for four year terms.  Two of the Republicans were up this year, and the Democrat resigned early so that seat was open.

Republican Herbert Masser defeated Democrat Marnie Kirchgessner for the *two-year* town council position.  But Democrats Roy Barriere and Stephanie Gaynor won the two *four-year* town council positions.  This shifts the council to two D, two R, with both Republicans up for election in 2009.
This should be *good news for people who want clean electricity* since I believe all the Democrats elected are on record as favoring windmill-friendly policies.

Town of Groton: All the Republicans (incumbents) won; town council remains all-Republican.

Town of Lansing: The Democratic candidate won the Supervisor position, defeating the incumbent Republican.

The incumbents stayed on the town council (one Democrat cross-endorsed by the Republicans, one Republican).  Town council remains 3R-1D.  The incumbent Republican highway super and town clerk won unopposed.  The incumbent town justice (whose party affiliation is unclear to me) won.

Town of Newfield: The incumbent Republican Jeffrey Hart retained his town council seat. 
Republican George Cutter didn't run again, and his seat was taken by Democrat Richard Driscoll.  Town council now 2R-2D.

Town of Ulysses: Two new Democrats replaced the retiring Democrats on the town council (council remains all D).  The incumbent Republican town justice won unopposed.

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I'm actually fairly impressed with these wins; Enfield used to be considered pretty seriously Republican, and its population hasn't changed that much.  The Dryden shift is really a sea change.

With wins like this in Enfield and Newfield and the already strong Democratic presence in Ithaca and Ulysses, I'm very curious about Democratic status in Chemung, Schuyler, Yates, and Steuben counties (particularly Elmira and Corning, the population centers).... State Senator Winner has spent way too much time being a Bruno lackey.

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by: neroden @ Wed Nov 07, 2007 at 09:48:19 AM UTC

I'm glad to see this posted (4.00 / 1)

because I was too tired to write last night, and I'm still not entirely coherent now.

Neroden's right - the win in Dryden is a sea change.  I'll have a lot more to say about this, but we beat a Rovian campaign, and I think we even did it in large part thanks to reduced margins in largely Republican districts - a lot of door to door.

http://livingindryde...

I need to take a close look at the numbers.  Dryden, Newfield, and Enfield give me hope that this is a change that could register well beyond Tompkins County, and I was happy that Groton had a real race.  We need to compete to change the game!

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by: simonstl @ Wed Nov 07, 2007 at 11:47:20 AM UTC

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Thanks, and just a tweak or two... (0.00 / 0)

Regarding the City--- the Mayor's office was not, in fact, just previously held by an actual Republican, but, rather, an "independent" who acted just like one (but did not require anybody actually voting on a Republican line).

I think that this is important, because I think it is a trend in Tompkins-- right-leaning people running as independents, or, as in our little town of Ulysses, even as Dems, but having very little connection to the Dem party overall, and then voting on issues as they see fit without any guidance or counsel from the rest of the Dems, at any level of organization. Our 2 new Dems in Ulysses are ok (at least so far!), but our Town Supervisor and one of the Dems we elected 2 years ago are basically free agents, doing whatever they please.  They even went so far as to collaborate with Sen Winner to gain a big member item-- this when the entire board was, nominally, Democratic.

Tompkins County is doing pretty well at spreading a blue feeling ever further into the countryside.  The thing to watch out for now is the within-ranks right-winged attack.

Very proud of Dryden, Caroline and Enfield Dems, all of whom, I know, worked very hard (as did we!) to keep that blue thing growing.

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by: robinia @ Wed Nov 07, 2007 at 22:17:42 PM UTC

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