Well, first let me say, Congratulations to the winners even though I may disagree with these choices.
As I'm told the results were as follows:
For Mayor:
- Mahesh Bhagia 101
- Rich Brescher 32
- Sapana Shah 7
For Council (3 winners):
- Tom McCann 124
- Sparshil Patel 120
- Shannon Peng 120
- Sheila Angelet 56
From what I understand there was a good turnout with some 144 of the 156 committee people turning out to vote.
Democracy in action where 144 people in a town of over 100,000 pick who should be in charge of our Muni Government.
Be that as it may, good to see they they chose (for me) the least palatable of the three candidates for Mayor. Clearly, for a whole host of reasons on several different levels, Brescher certainly would of been a better choice than Bhagia and, let's not make a mistake and go with a better candidate in an intelligent and talented Woman in Shah.
On the Council side, good luck with this bunch - not a big fan of Board of Ed-Dems people coming over to the Muni-side of town and wouldn't vote for any of these people, in the only election that counts, except for Angelet.
So, let's hope there are a bunch of other tickets to challenge these candidates in both the primary and general elections - as long as none of them include any ticket with Sam 'the Weathervane Millennial' Joshi, aka Big-boy pants attached to it. Got to love how he dropped out of the screening for Council at the last minute. Guess he saw the handwriting on the wall - let's hope he keeps reading and goes into political retirement in the town.
Anyhoo, it is what it is here in this political chaos and dysfunction we call 'Downtown Edison.'
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ReplyDeleteObviously, not a good idea or result for me. Not much a fan of the Local Dem-party or how they do things.
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