4 Winners and 5 Losers from Tuesday's Elections

Losers - Dutchess County Students (4.00 / 4)

The county Republicans have made clear that they will do anything in their power to intimidate student voters and ensure that their votes don't count.

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by: Kanamit @ Wed Nov 04, 2009 at 10:38:16 AM CST

Have you thought of writing up what happened in Dutchess? (4.00 / 1)

I for one am curious

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by: SteveinNYC @ Wed Nov 04, 2009 at 14:33:24 PM CST

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I'll see if I can write something up tomorrow. (4.00 / 3)

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by: Kanamit @ Wed Nov 04, 2009 at 15:10:45 PM CST

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Really, really rich people (4.00 / 4)

Bloomberg spent $175 a vote and outspent Thompson 14:1 and barely won. Corzine spent bazillions as well, and lost.  

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by: Amherst Guy @ Wed Nov 04, 2009 at 10:54:52 AM CST

Organizations that represent really, really rich people. (4.00 / 2)

Like Club For Growth.  They spent over a million dollars to send a Democrat to Washington?  These people are the right-wing version of the Green Party.

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by: Steaming Pile @ Wed Nov 04, 2009 at 11:25:13 AM CST

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P.S. (0.00 / 0)

I bet that the people of NYC would have gladly voted for Bloomberg if he just cut him a check for 175 bucks each.

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by: Amherst Guy @ Wed Nov 04, 2009 at 12:41:59 PM CST

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All Politics is Local Division: (4.00 / 5)

The entire Town of Stephentown:

STEPHENTOWN:
Town Supervisor:
491 Lawrence K. Eckhardt (R)

Town Clerk:
976 Patricia Gallup (D, R)*
on D-line: 600
on R-line: 376

Town Justice:
758 Cyril A. Grant (D, WFP)*
307 Joseph M. Champion (R)

Town Council (Two seats):
664 Christopher M. Demick (D, WFP)*
633 Philip J. Roder (D, WFP)*
387 John M. Meekins (R)
374 Donald T. Burdick (R)

Tax Collector:
998 Ruth M. Rieger (D, R)*
on D-Line: 617
on R-Line: 381

Town Highways Superintendent:
682 Alden Goodermote (D)
445 Neil E. Gardner (R)*

Gardner is a convicted felon (24 counts) that was removed from the office of Highway Superintendent in 2008 following his conviction.

Aldie Goodermote was appointed as his replacement and has now earned a full term... his first full term of many to come.

Note the Tax Collector and Town Clerk, two Republicans basically chased out of their party by the convicted felon and his supporters and into our big-D tent.

Also note the extremely low vote total for the unopposeed Town Supervisor candidate. It represents 43.56% of the vote. It is 2 votes more than were cast for ballot Proposition One regarding power lines in the Adirondacks and 5 fewer votes than were cast regarding Proposition Two about prisoners doing work for non-profits.

This remains a classic upstate small rural town with a heavy Republican enrollment advantage.

It's a beautiful thing.

The losers?

The small circle surrounding and supporting the convicted felon.

The county Republican Party that has lost control of the Town Republican Committee that supported a convicted felon against their wishes.

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by: Andrew C. White @ Wed Nov 04, 2009 at 11:08:31 AM CST

good job (4.00 / 1)

congrats!

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by: jmcbride @ Wed Nov 04, 2009 at 12:17:28 PM CST

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Excellent! (4.00 / 1)

May the grit of your gravel be all on the up and up.

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by: robinia @ Wed Nov 04, 2009 at 17:52:27 PM CST

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legal (0.00 / 0)

is good.

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by: Andrew C. White @ Wed Nov 04, 2009 at 18:11:40 PM CST

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c'mon (4.00 / 4)

No mention Stephanie Miner's victory in Syracuse, the first ever elected female mayor of one of the Big Five? (Yonkers had an unelected female mayor in 1949.)

Onondaga County now has a female county exec and a female mayor.  I don't believe that has ever happened before in any of the state's big counties.

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by: NYCO @ Wed Nov 04, 2009 at 12:49:56 PM CST

Please mention it! (4.00 / 1)

and any other results that deserve attention.  

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by: SteveinNYC @ Wed Nov 04, 2009 at 13:19:19 PM CST

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Waiting on you to tell us about it! (4.00 / 1)

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by: Andrew C. White @ Wed Nov 04, 2009 at 13:40:29 PM CST

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Definitely concur (4.00 / 3)

And a huge congrats to Stephanie Miner, she deserved it!

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by: spcollins90 @ Wed Nov 04, 2009 at 13:57:28 PM CST

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Another loser (4.00 / 2)

Jay Jacobs.  Nassau County went red last night, and the County Exec. nearly lost his job as well.  Other counties also went red -- not an auspicious start for the new state chair, espeically as his predecessor was busy winning a hot race in her home area.

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by: Dan Jacoby @ Wed Nov 04, 2009 at 13:20:33 PM CST

Reggie Lafayette, Westchester Co Chair (4.00 / 2)

Westchester lost the county exec, by 16 points, notwithstanding a 100,000 registration advantage.  Reggie is the immediate past executive committee chair of the state party.

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by: jmcbride @ Wed Nov 04, 2009 at 14:15:08 PM CST

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Other losers (4.00 / 2)

I'd say the Conservative Party.  They were set up for a major victory but instead Hoffman snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.  While Long might be slightly more relevant, he now has the stigma of poisoning a moderate Republican and a guaranteed victory in exchange for the support of the Tea Bag Wing.  AND the Conservative Party in Nassau was the difference in Suozzi's 200 hundred vote escape.  

"Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority."


-William Jennings Bryan

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by: BingChester @ Wed Nov 04, 2009 at 14:22:11 PM CST

Will he do it again? (4.00 / 2)

Long says he doesn't regret anything. Think he'll do it again with Rick Lazio?

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by: SteveinNYC @ Wed Nov 04, 2009 at 14:32:06 PM CST

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I can only hope! (4.00 / 2)

But I actually expect that Lazio will be the uncontested Republican gubernatorial candidate when all is said and done.  Once Cuomo declares, he'll suck the oxygen out of that race.

"Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority."


-William Jennings Bryan

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by: BingChester @ Wed Nov 04, 2009 at 18:38:15 PM CST

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George Pataki (4.00 / 1)

and apparently Mark Kirk in Illinois now too for deciding to embrace the Sarah Palin/Glenn Beck/Rush Limbaugh extremists.

What a flippin' idiot.

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by: Andrew C. White @ Wed Nov 04, 2009 at 18:42:45 PM CST

I lost in my town, but feel like a winner! (4.00 / 2)

The past few weeks, I've been running a last minute write-in campaign for Town Supervisor in the Town of Berne.  

(Hence my disappearance in covering the Ellis/Jennings battle in the city of Albany.  Too bad, that one.)

I'm not sure exactly how many votes I got, but in one precinct  the machine busted and so many people wanted to write me in that they had to go to paper ballots.  At that precinct, I ended up getting about 13% of the vote; at another, I pulled about 5%; I haven't got information on the third, but am estimating between 6 and 10 percent over the whole town.

I think that's pretty good for write-in candidacy launched only three weeks out from the election :-)

I hope to share much more of this story as it develops and many more as I make a return to blogging more regularly as the 2010 election cycle approaches.

(P.S....Go Stephentown!)

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by: Soundpolitic @ Wed Nov 04, 2009 at 19:00:49 PM CST

Some press: (4.00 / 1)

Just to prove I'm not making this up, here is the newspaper coverage of my campaign announcement as it saw print in the October 16, 2009 edition of the Altamont Enterprise.

Okay, fine, here's an excerpt, too:

Dissatisfied with Berne supervisor candidates,
Abele launches write-in campaign for supervisor

By Zach Simeone

BERNE - Colin Abele, a lifelong Berne resident at 26, is dissatisfied with this year's candidates for town supervisor. So, he will seek the position himself through a write-in campaign.

"This year, neither candidate best represented me or what was absolutely best for the town," Abele said of Democrat George Gebe and Republican Carl Baranishyn. "I must seek employment in areas where I feel like I'm the most qualified applicant...I feel my age would not be a handicap, but a benefit, since I would have more energy, and fresher ideas," he told The Enterprise this week.
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He first considered running for supervisor in 2005, he said, when current Supervisor Kevin Crosier was re-elected. Abele got involved in other areas of politics in the following years.

"I started volunteering for political campaigns during Sandy Gordon's campaign for legislature, when Kevin Crosier went to primary him," Abele said, referring to the Democratic Albany County legislator. "After that, during 2008, I involved myself in the Democratic primary for Congress. I also spent a lot of time volunteering for Phil Steck in his campaign for Congress and David Weiss in his campaign for State Senate, going door to door and talking to people about my chosen candidates."

Abele went on to say that he believes the government is the employee of the people.

"We've defined this 'us and them' - that people are separate from the government, but they are truly the same," he said. "I would like to see an employee-employer relationship return. The people are the boss."

Only thing they left out is one of my favorite things, too...blogging on The Albany Project :-)

Stay tuned and keep up the good work!

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by: Soundpolitic @ Wed Nov 04, 2009 at 19:07:27 PM CST

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Great job! (4.00 / 1)

Very cool to see you running a write-in campaign.  Hopefully it did the trick and shot a bow across the table of your local machine.

"Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority."


-William Jennings Bryan

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by: BingChester @ Wed Nov 04, 2009 at 20:41:25 PM CST

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Thank you! (4.00 / 1)

It was very cool running.  While I'd still never discourage anyone from doing so, I would now offer them the advice that comes from the biggest lesson learned from running a write-in campaign: your results will be better if you'd run on the ballot :-)

I'll be back with more comments probably this weekend in diary form.  Hopefully, I'll know what kind of shot I made...if members of the local Democratic party actually start talking to me again between now and then :-)

Thanks again!

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by: Soundpolitic @ Thu Nov 05, 2009 at 16:27:05 PM CST

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