The results of today's election are;
Select Board
Joe Michaud retains his Select Board seat, turning back Bob Miller
Shawn McDonald outpolled Frank Gracie
School Committee
Meagan Monteiro and John Nunes were top vote getters in a three way race which included Doug Roscoe.
Board of Health
In the closest race of the day, Lynn Brodeur received 12 more votes than Thomas Hardman, out of nearly 5000 votes cast.
The other races were uncontested. Scott Lake was elected as Cemetery Commissioner, ...
...John Haran was re-elected to the Planning Board, Rachael Charrier and Andrew Couto were re-elected as Library Trustees, Kevin Santos was re-elected as Assessor, Lisa Tavares was re-elected to the Park Board and Elaine Lancaster was re-elected to the Housing Authority.
The ballot question asking, if Town Meeting or some other form of town government was preferred, saw voters come down firmly on the side of retaining Town Meeting.
Congratulations to the winners and kudos to all the candidates. I can attest that it is a somewhat daunting exercise to run for elected office. We owe appreciation to everyone who has the temerity to place their name in the public realm for consideration.
Now it is time to put aside the campaign and find areas to work together to advance the interests of the taxpayers and residents of the town. We have been making steady progress for a while now and I am sure that we will continue to do so.
Posts
22 comments:
Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all who participated.
Ray Medeiros must be dissappointed after having worked so hard on the Miller campaign. Pick yourself up by the bootstraps Ray. It's time to get your own state rep campaign going.
Disappointed with the turnout, as usual. Fortunately, the unions did not get their way and vote Mr. Miller back in. Mr. Michaud was able to overcome the backlash of trying to hold the line on new union contracts and cleansing the town of some of the inappropriate financial commitments from the past. I hope Mr. McDonald is able to function effectively in the new SB environment where more than one vote counts.
This was a victory for good government and the taxpayers against special interests and town unions. Absolutely amazing how a group of amateurs could defeat the combined forces of Miller, Dias, Carney, Vincent, Gagne, Richie Medeiros, Rutch and the Police Brotherhood, the DTEA and the rest of the town employee unions et al in a low turnout election. I am amazed that enough people saw this election for exactly what it was, "A battle for the future of this community" and whether we continue to move forward with a government that represents all the people or just the special interests and favored few. GO JOE!!!!
I am a bit worried about McDonald, but hope that the FINCOM and other select board members can keep his "only worry about the schools" bent in check...
Joe Michaud overcame a BOATLOAD of opposition to retain his seat. Way to go, Joe!
Way to go voters of Dartmouth. This race proves the ole' saying that signs don't vote ! At least now Dartmouth can maintain the direction it is going and we dont have to worry about slipping back to the old way of doing business.
This was a victory for good government and the taxpayers against special interests and town unions. Absolutely amazing how a group of amateurs could defeat the combined forces of Miller, Dias, Carney, Vincent, Gagne, Richie Medeiros, Rutch and the Police Brotherhood, the DTEA and the rest of the town employee unions et al in a low turnout election.?
40% of the turnout was from the Padanaram Village and the South part of town. How long will people in the North end of town continue to sit on their hands and be screwed over and over again.
If you wonder why North Dartmouth keeps getting screwed you have your answer.
Personally I did not vote for Joe, but I wish him well. Now is not the time to single out individuals like Greg Rutch. It is his RIGHT to support anyone he wants, this is still a free country.
Just because he works for the police department does not limit his right to spend his free time supporting any candidate.
Congratulations Joe and good luck.
Frank, so sorry you lost--we voted for you. And yes, I'm pro-school and pro-Gracie!! really bummed Roscoe lost too, he would have made logical school decisions based on evidence
Way to go Joe and crew. It seemed you were out numbered yesterday and i was nervous for all of you ! i'm glad that the cry baby police union didn't prevail. It seems as if the town's tax payers appreciate the hard work and determination you have shown over the past three years. By keeping Miller out,this town has regained some of its respectability and the townies and select few groups have lost their "juice." I for one couldn't be happier.
Yesterday's election results ensure the death of the "contracts for life". Thank goodness the voters knew better than to allow the Prince of Darkness back into Town Hall.
Thank God for Joe and his crew!!
Are there any political analysts out there reading this? If so, I have a question, How did Mrs. Monteiro get elected to the School Committee? I have nothing against the lady, but she ran a very limited campaign.
She also said little of substance at the Candidates Night, beyond paraphrasing Clinton's "It takes a village" speech. Do you mean to tell me that that is all she had to offer, and the public bought it??
We have a problem here, folks.
I hope she has more to offer than taking from someone else's ideas. Everytime she was confronted with a "hard" question she resorted to her "honestly," "cutesy" manner of answering the questions.
She is sitting in Doug Roscoe's seat. It is too bad. She has a lot to do to prove herself, that's for sure. Her seat belonged to Doug.
Ms. Monteiro is not sitting in Doug Roscoe's seat. If it was truly his and the voters believed that, he would be there. Out of 10 precincts, Mr. Roscoe was the top vote getter in Precinct 9 and took third place in every other precinct. Maybe the voters weren't paying attention or were ill-informed. Or maybe they felt by not sending his children to Dartmouth Public Schools that spoke volumes about his character. Who knows? Ms. Monteiro has been actively involved in the schools for years and may be a welcome addition to the committee. Stay tuned..
Let us all look at this election for what it truly reveals, most obvious conclusion is 23% of town registered voters care about electing local town officials. This indicates to me, that 77% of town voters don't care, don't want to be involved, or care less who is elected. Anyone with any ounce of brain matter can do the analysts and come to the conclusion that the 23% are made up of voters who have a direct concern or a monetary impact, as it relates to whom they want in positions of favors. I will concede that some, but not all people who voted want good solid government leaders, but for the most part the ones who voted are searching for some type of reward(s). To all the elected town officials, understand this one conclusion, for sure you are Representative of 23% of the town voters. The remaining 77% don't care about you, or who is running this town. The this magic world of computers, it is simple to maintain the names, addresses, and the number of townies who vote in local elections. Just for the heck of doing something, in the next election I plan on running a campaign from the seat of my computer. You can be certain that all town employee's are active local town election voters and they all vote, including family and Friends. The most important organisations to join is the Dartmouth Youth Athletic Association, the Dartmouth high school marching band association, and a suporter of the senior citizens
Making election changes is the way to go. The school board seat(s) must be separated into single elected seats. This business of two seats and three candidates running is antiquated, and must be changed through the town charter. I recommend that all school board seats to be single/separate slots. The selectmen, once part of the same election process, were changed with the adoption of the town charter.
When two school board seats are up for re-election the challenger must declare which seat they are challenging ,or the candidate to be challenged, if any. A candidate can only run for one seat. This will allow voters to select a candidate for each seat. This selection process had a large impact on the select board. What say YOU!
Divide the SB and SC seats into regions. Limit eligibility to residing in those specific regions.
No, no, no, this is not anger, this is fact.Town employee's who are town voters will vote for the selectman who delivers the goods. I concede to the few voters who are not town employee's and vote for good solid government. When 77% of the eligible town voters do not vote in a town (local) election it is because they don't care or want to become involved in town government. Can you offer any other conclusion??
Town employee's who are elected town meeting members are self serving. School teacher are given the day off if they are town meeting members and attend the town meeting. YOU can't be an intelligent person if you see this as anything more than self serving. I'm not upset or mad. The state ethics commission allows town employee's to become town meeting members. Town employee's, who are elected town meeting members vote on their pay raises. This is not, as it relates to the state ethics commission, a conflict of interest. Go figure. Just keep in mind that 77% of eligible voters did not vote in this last town election and Bob Miller who ran on a campaign of supporting town employee's almost won. Only 143 votes separated the winner. Also keep in mind that 234 town voters voted in the Michaud/Miller selectman seat, than the Gracie/McDonald seat. How do you answer this type of factual conclusion?? If a voter takes the time to vote, why vote on the Michaud/Miller race and not vote in the Gracie/McDonald race?? It has everything to do with town employee voters/family and friends of town employee's. All politics is LOCAL
Believe in the facts for they speak volumes. Bob Miller lost the election because of the voters in precinct 9 and 10. They saved this town from a total disaster. I must commend these voters and their quality of intellect. I can't come up with any other thing to say except the village people made the difference. This has more to do with intellect then those who were handing the chicken house over to Mr. Miller. I've often been critical of the North end no show voters but this time I want to thank each one that didn't vote for Miller, by staying at home
Divide the seats by region? Silly idea as we are one town and don't need more 'division'. If people don't care enough to vote and would rather sit at home they get what they deserve-limited representation of their agenda. They want isolation, give it to them.
I really get upset when people come down on cops, saying that they do not care. Here is a story that shows that not all cops are in that category.
The Joplin , Mo. , Police Department reports finding a man's body last Saturday in Spring River near the Empire Electric Plant. The dead man's name will not be released until his family has been notified.
The victim apparently drowned due to excessive beer consumption while visiting "someone" in Riverton , KS. He was wearing black fishnet stockings, a red garter belt, a pink G-string, purple lipstick and an Obama T-shirt.
The police removed the Obama T-shirt to spare his family any unnecessary embarrassment.
Post a Comment