(update: June 8-9:15 pm)
VICTORY for the Democratic Committee men and women candidates!
I have just confirmed that our Democratic (Column B) candidates won a majority 38 seats, to their opponents' 33 seats! Mind you, provisional ballots have not been counted, but it's looking good!
Congratulations to ALL of our candidates, winners and not-winners.
(update: June 8-8:00 pm)
If you haven't voted, you blew it, Charlie. Or Charlotte. The polls have closed. Some districts will be won by a handful of votes. You could have made the difference.
Don't you remember how George B*sh stole the 2000 U.S. presidential election with 500 votes in Florida, after Katherine Harris scrubbed 58,000 registered Democrats off Florida's rolls, many for the crime of sharing the same surname as a felon? Huh? Don't you remember that? And what does that have to do with Hoboken , you ask?
NOTHING. It's just a gratuitous jab at the worst American president in our history. Or at least in my lifetime.
Election results should be in around 9 pm.
(original post)
Not yet. Polls close at 8pm, in an hour and 45 minutes.
But, as you may have heard, an sleazy effort is underway to steal defeat from the jaws of victory for targeted Democratic (Column B) candidates. How? The usual: harvests of absentee ballots, smears against good people, organized write-ins.
I received this email from Peter Cunningham, City Council President this morning:
This morning I ran into one of our Democratic Committee candidates who told me that a whopping 23 absentee ballots were turned in for his district. That may not sound like a lot, but for an election with a light turnout, this is decisive.
Another Democratic Committee candidate was the subject of a smear poster, focusing on loss of affordable housing in Applied buildings.
And a midnight flyer went out in Peter Cunningham's district calling him an "empty suit".
I'll do updates as any information comes in. Final results should be available around 9pm.
If you haven't yet voted, it's not too late.
VICTORY for the Democratic Committee men and women candidates!
I have just confirmed that our Democratic (Column B) candidates won a majority 38 seats, to their opponents' 33 seats! Mind you, provisional ballots have not been counted, but it's looking good!
Congratulations to ALL of our candidates, winners and not-winners.
(update: June 8-8:00 pm)
If you haven't voted, you blew it, Charlie. Or Charlotte. The polls have closed. Some districts will be won by a handful of votes. You could have made the difference.
Don't you remember how George B*sh stole the 2000 U.S. presidential election with 500 votes in Florida, after Katherine Harris scrubbed 58,000 registered Democrats off Florida's rolls, many for the crime of sharing the same surname as a felon? Huh? Don't you remember that? And what does that have to do with Hoboken , you ask?
NOTHING. It's just a gratuitous jab at the worst American president in our history. Or at least in my lifetime.
Election results should be in around 9 pm.
(original post)
Not yet. Polls close at 8pm, in an hour and 45 minutes.
But, as you may have heard, an sleazy effort is underway to steal defeat from the jaws of victory for targeted Democratic (Column B) candidates. How? The usual: harvests of absentee ballots, smears against good people, organized write-ins.
I received this email from Peter Cunningham, City Council President this morning:
Dear Friends, Family and Neighbors,
It has been brought to our attention that the standard bearers of corrupt Hoboken politics are trying to mount a "write in" campaign against our democratic colleagues in Column B. This is their last stand, and as thought, they will not go quietly. Many absentee ballot applications have been submitted to the County to support their candidates in various Districts and they will be pulling out the vote all day today.
It has been brought to our attention that the standard bearers of corrupt Hoboken politics are trying to mount a "write in" campaign against our democratic colleagues in Column B. This is their last stand, and as thought, they will not go quietly. Many absentee ballot applications have been submitted to the County to support their candidates in various Districts and they will be pulling out the vote all day today.
They are NOT wanted and there's NO place for them in Hoboken politics anymore. It is most critical that you find the time to cast your vote (at the very least Democratic Committee) for candidates under Column B.
Polls are open from 6am to 8pm. Please pass this note around and let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks, Peter
Right, Peter.Polls are open from 6am to 8pm. Please pass this note around and let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks, Peter
This morning I ran into one of our Democratic Committee candidates who told me that a whopping 23 absentee ballots were turned in for his district. That may not sound like a lot, but for an election with a light turnout, this is decisive.
Another Democratic Committee candidate was the subject of a smear poster, focusing on loss of affordable housing in Applied buildings.
And a midnight flyer went out in Peter Cunningham's district calling him an "empty suit".
I'll do updates as any information comes in. Final results should be available around 9pm.
If you haven't yet voted, it's not too late.
Any upsets?
ReplyDeleteSCOTUS voted 7-2 that the Dems broke the law by bypassing the state legislature. Dems produced the butterfly ballots. SCOTUS voted 5-4 on the remedy. Just like replacing Torricelli with Lautenberg after Torricelli won the primary it's the Dems who more often engage in voter fraud. Google ACORN voter fraud.
ReplyDeleteNo one knows what votes were lost in the panhandle of Florida when all the networks called the state for Florida WITH THE POLLS OPEN.
ReplyDeleteThe hyper-partisanship of that very large factor is something you never hear about.
And it definitely played a big outcome in voters not going to the polls.
But hey, the search for Al Gore votes continues.
(Just don't count those military votes.)
Felon votes = good. Military votes = bad.
P.S. Illegal alien votes = best!
Commenting in a "hyper-partisan" fashion (& spinning local into sad old national news)....
ReplyDeleteYou're sounding like Tetley boys, SJ & ss. You're both nice fellas, but you're really steeping.
Here's a gentle suggestion to smarten-up, Mr. Jones. It's not about another planet. Just another country. A more humane term: "undocumented immigrant." (Betcha you have at least one of those somewhere in your own ancestry. Most all of us do.)