This is what comes of a political environment in which it’s almost impossible to find people willing to run for office.
The Groton Democrats appear to have elected all of their candidates to the Town Council and all of their candidates for the Board of Education (one Board of Ed candidate is on the edge, pending absentee ballot counts). We also increased our majority on the RTM, from what I’m told.
We only ran four candidates for the Town Council, and they all won. Since there are nine seats on the council we’re still in the minority. Next time around, maybe we’ll go over the top. If there are any politically aware Groton folks reading this who would like to run for office, believe me we want to hear from you.
A lot of people did a lot of work on this election and deserve some recognition. Natalie Billing, Betsy Moukawsher, Nancy Driscoll, Liz Duarte, and Karen Buffkin were among the hardest working. I’m sure I’ve missed some, for which I apologize.
Two spending measures won (the seniors-only swimming pool lost), so the Groton voters, who don’t like to be taxed, still like to spend money. We are now going to have the world’s most luxurious dog pound. Go figure. Friend of the blog, though a Republican, John Scott, lost. Whether he was a victim of the GGG Pac campaign of vindictiveness, I don’t know.
I was poll checking from 6:00 to 9:00 AM at the library in the first district, and it seemed to me that turnout was low but biased toward Democrats. I couldn’t be sure, because the first should be a heavily Democratic district anyway, though it sometimes amazes me how many Republicans live in the poorer areas. Apparently there was such a trend: Democrats turned out disproportionately, or maybe Republicans stayed home disproportionately. We can only hope that trend goes national in 2008.
Though I have my differences with some of our candidates, I decided this year that I’d vote for them all.
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