[statecom-discuss] Brookline results; Jill beats state results

[BillCunningham]

Amazing that CPA lost so heavily in Brookline. The town has changed a lot over the past 15 years.

We have some Camb and Som results on The Bridge website.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Merelice <merelice at gmail.com>
>Sent: Nov 8, 2006 3:18 PM
>To: Discussion List for StateCom members <statecom-discuss at green-rainbow.org>
>Cc: Patrick Keaney <pkeaney at netway.com>, luc shuster <lucballgame at yahoo.com>
>Subject: [statecom-discuss] Brookline results; Jill beats state results
>
>Greetings,
>
>Over the last few years, Jill has made some speaking appearances in
>Brookline and yesterday's vote tallies show it. She received 23.8% of
>Brookline's votes. Her 4,339 vote count was higher than Kerry Healey's
>3,909 votes.
>
>Individual precincts ran from a low of 20.3 % to a high of 33.1% in
>precinct 6 which has the most Jill supporters (both GRP and non-GRP).
>I've done a precinct-by-precinct breakdown if anyone outside Brookline
>cares.
>
>Jamie got 16.3 % of the Brookline vote and Grace/Martina got 2.4%.
>
>Given the extraordinary grass-roots organizing on behalf of Deval in
>Brookline, the 52.5% overall turnout was considered surprisingly low.
>Given his campaign and the CPA question, the Clerk's office had
>estimated a turnout of 60-65%.
>
>Other results of interest: Rand Wilson (Working Families Party)
>received 13.4% of the vote for Auditor. Apparently most Brookline
>voters did not get the connection between his campaign and Question 2
>on fusion. While Question 2 lost, it did receive 43.4% of the vote,
>much higher than Rand's tally.
>
>An "end war" referendum that was on the ballot in 12 out of our 16
>precincts received 69.2% of the vote.
>
>The horrid, horrid news is that the Community Preservation Act failed,
>getting 42.9% of the vote. I've been part of a number of so-called
>"losing" campaigns over the years and still felt like a winner, but
>the CPA opponents used such misrepresentations and fear tactics in
>this campaign, that it's left a really bitter aftertaste.
>
>Sorry to end on a downer!
>Merelice
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Bill Cunningham