Two DFA listers elected to Asheville City Council.

[madfloridian]

From the blog tonight:

"In North Carolina, both Holly Jones and Robin Cape were elected to the City Council of Asheville."

www.blogforamerica.com

[msongs]

1. Challenge all repubs, contest EVERY race - H. Dean nt

[madfloridian]

2. Amen to that.

You will win some, lose some, but that is how progress is made.

[G_j]

3. and we DIDN'T wake up today with Joe Dunn as mayor!!

wooo hooo!

http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051109/NEWS01/51109005/1001&theme=ELECTIONSEASON

(Mumpower is bad news but the other two are progressive. Also progressive Freeborn who finished fourth now has a chance to fill Bellamy's council seat.
That would make for a fairly progressive council in Asheville at long last!)

Jones, Cape, Mumpower picked for City Council
by Mark Barrett , and Angie Newsome, STAFF WRITERS

published November 9, 2005 6:00 am

ASHEVILLE — Voters on Tuesday boosted efforts to more closely regulate growth, easily returning Holly Jones to a second term on Asheville City Council and choosing another council candidate who has backed tougher development policies, Robin Cape.

Jones led the six candidates for the three seats on council that were up for grabs, other than the mayor’s slot, with 11,642 votes. Cape won her first bid for a council seat with 9,737 and Carl Mumpower won a second term by finishing third with 8,498.

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Next in line was Bryan Freeborn, a 29-year-old carpenter whose fourth-place finish with 7,319 votes will give him a leg up in the next contest — a council decision on who should fill Terry Bellamy’s remaining term on council. Bellamy vacates the seat because of her victory in the mayor’s race.

“I don’t know what council’s going to do and that’s up to them, although I think the spread between me and the fifth-place candidate is pretty phenomenal,” Freeborn said.


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http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051109/NEWS01/51109003&theme=ELECTIONSEASON

Bellamy wins: Asheville elects first African-American mayor

by John Boyle, SENIOR WRITER
published November 9, 2005 6:00 am

ASHEVILLE — Terry Bellamy’s introduction at her post-election party said it all Tuesday night.

“I am Terry Bellamy, and I thank you for your support,” she said. “I am the mayor-elect of Asheville, North Carolina.”

That last part — spoken slowly and emphatically — brought down the packed house at her campaign headquarters in South Asheville.

In a decisive and historic victory, Bellamy became the first African-American to win the mayor’s office in Asheville, a city incorporated 208 years ago. With 10,534 votes, or 56.8 percent, Bellamy handily defeated her challenger, fellow Councilman Joe Dunn, who garnered 8,004 votes, or 43.2 percent, according to unofficial results.

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[Yellow_Dog]

4. If you look at the results per precinct

you will see that reason was trumped by race.

[G_j]

5. so did the whites

who voted for Dunn also let race trump reason?

[patricia92243]

6. We're doing what Dean said to do: Putting in Democrats from dogcatcher

to Governor!! Hurrah for us!!