Weinberger Wins!
8:16pm Miro Weinberger has won the election for mayor of Burlington! Congratulations to the mayor-elect…
10:55pm- Time for a little unpacking of the day’s events here in Burlington, Vermont.
*Thank you to Kurt and Wanda for running honorable campaigns.
* From a personal standpoint, thank you very much to the 1,392 people who voted to re-elect me to the school board from Ward Seven. It’s an honor to serve you. I believe I received the 4th 8th highest vote total in the city behind Miro, Kurt and Bernie O’Rourke. Oddly Bernie was the one school board member with an opponent on the ballot and he got more votes than all 6 of the rest of us who were unopposed.
*Thank you Lauren Glenn, Meghan O’Rourke, Nat Ayer, Jess Wilson and everybody at Channel 17 for hosting election HQ tonight, and to Kathryn Flagg, Paula Routly, Tyler Machado, Cathy Resmer, Andy Bromage and the rest of the crew at Seven Days for inviting me to blog with them there.
* Jay Vos, formally of the wonderful local blog “Blazing Indescretions” tells me that Blogger has deleted his entire blog because they mistook it for spam. That is upsetting.
*The school budget passed 5359 to 4490 .
*Council Winners by Ward: 1- Ed Adrian, 2- Max Tracy 3-Rachel Siegel 4-Byran Aubin 5-Chip Mason 6-Karen Paul 7-Paul Decelles Congratulations all.
*The council takes a step to the left. Kurt departs in 4 and is replaced by a Dem. Berezniak departs in 2 and is replaced by the Prog he Bram beat by 13 14 votes 2 years ago. Paul Decelles, whom I voted for today, got 54 more votes than ge got last time, yet only won by 97 votes, beating Tom Ayres 52.6% to 47.3%. Ayres is likely to run again next year when Vince Dober retires from the council. Ed Adrian envisions a “New New North End” that is solidly Democratic. Is his vision correct?
*Chart and numbers stolen from Seven Days:
Burlington Mayoral Race
7 of 7 wards reporting results.
The winning candidate must receive more than 40% of votes to avoid a runoff.
Miro Weinberger (D) 5801 Kurt Wright (R) 3746 Wanda Hines (I) 498
Burlington City Council Races
Ward 1 Adrian (D) 709 Write-ins 0
Ward 2 Tracy (P) 503 Hammerslough (D) 297 Write-ins 0
Ward 3 Siegel (P) 755 Hurley (D) 440 Ruloff (I) 44 Salese (I) 40 Write-ins 0
Ward 4 Aubin (D) 1095 Kenworthy (R) 974 Write-ins 0
Ward 5 Mason (D) 1177 Daigle (I) 453 Write-ins 0
Ward 6 Paul (I) 1118 Write-ins 0
Ward 7 Decelles (R) 965 Ayres (D) 868 Write-ins 0
8 comments
Congrats, Haik! Glad to see you were one of the winners. Kind of shocked how badly Weinberger beat Wright by. Any comments on that or are you waiting for the shake-out? Will be interesting to see who this “Fresh Start” chooses to lead City Hall with. Hopefully people who actually have SOME experience serving the public in elected positions? BTV hopes.
I was also surprised it wasn’t closer. 57% to 37% to 5% is a blow-out bordering on a landslide, but I don’t want to speculate on why that happened tonight. I have to go to bed.
Thanks for your comment BPosse and for reading BurlingtonPol.com. Visit often!
Congrats Haik. And as always, thanks for the election coverage.
You’re welcome Jonas. It’s my pleasure.
Haik,
It was Bram Kranichfeld who won against Max Tracy. Max and I have never run against each other.
Hi Dave, I made the correction. Thanks for saying something. I mixed it up because Bram ran against Max Tracy in a special election 2 years ago at the same time you ran against Jonathan Leavitt in the same ward (2) in a regular election. Bram won by 14 votes and you won by 10. They were kind of like twin elections.
http://www.burlingtonvt.gov/CT/Elections/Results—DMS-Documents/2010/Annual-City-Meeting—Official-Results/
Thanks for reading, commenting and for devoting the last 2 years of your life in the service of Burlington as a city councilor!
Haik, after I’d relayed to you the news, I was still trying to figure out what to do, whether to call it a day or to find another host. Last Friday, I checked my Dashboard and found that I could re-submit my request to resurrect BI. So I did that, and early Saturday morning, I received an answer that Blogger had reviewed BI, found it was not spam, and I’d won my appeal. (That sounds so judicial!). So I am baaaaaaack!
- Jay
Awesome Jay! Glad to hear it!
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