Connolly Wins Alderman at Large Special Election

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

According to the Somerville News and Somerville Journal Connolly won by about 400 votes.

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FYI

[somjournal.livejournal.com]

The 400 vote difference was just a preliminary number. The actual results will be up tomorrow.

[maclou.livejournal.com]

That's nice, I thought he was going to lose for sure!

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

Weird, BF says Martinez was celebrating at Sagra earlier. I wonder if that's final or not.

[ron_newman]

City cable channel 16 displays unofficial results: Connolly 3671, Martinez 3265.

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

Take a look at the Somerville Journal link: they have a picture of him at Sagra, and the folks there don't look happy.

[pushupstairs.livejournal.com]

also the caption "Marty Martinez speaks to his supporters following his defeat in the special election for alderman Tuesday night at Sagra on Highland Avenue."

[bgum.livejournal.com]

I wonder if anybody did as me and refused to vote because it was annoying to find a new doorknob note or piece of junkmail about one of the candidates each time I left my house.

[mattdm.livejournal.com]

hooray for democracy.

[limbodog.livejournal.com]

Trying to remember if he's my friend's fiance...

[ron_newman]

?

[ron_newman]

Unofficial election results are now on the city website.

Jack won huge in ward 1 (East Somerville) and ward 4 (from roughly the back side of City Hall to Ten Hills at the Mystic River). Marty easily took ward 5 (Ball and Magoun squares down to Porter Square, more or less). The other four wards were quite close, but Jack narrowly lost his home ward 6 (Davis and Powderhouse area).

Here's a map of Somerville wards and precincts.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Gotta love a place where someone like Jack is considered an old-school conservative.

This is one of the bestest comments ever:
(From the SomNews site)

Susan Passoni lost and so did Marty, I think its safe to say that old Massachusetts is back. I for one can't wait to take a walk through Davis Square and see all the smug yuppie socialists wipe the grin of their face. Now our leaders can get back to taking bribes for city services which to be honest is better then the "Proggressives" who complain all day and brag about how great they are even though they seem to accomplish nothing. Anyways guys please move back to NY or where every else these people came from.

Someone get that guy an LJ!

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

Gotta love a place where someone like Jack is considered an old-school conservative.

No kidding.

Someone get that guy an LJ!

But if he posted here he'd get banned.