Amity Budget Referendum Passes!

The Amity Budget Referendum PASSED by 618 votes
district wide tonight.

It passed in Woodbridge (432=yes to 151=no)

It passed in Orange (436=yes to 226=no)

It passed in Bethany (284=yes to 157=no)

Total in all three towns was 1,152=yes to 534=no

*Please note this is an unofficial tally*

Campaign 2009 - Into the history books!

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Ed Sheehy and Jerry Weiner at the vote count earlier this evening in the Center Gym
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Tonight's election results in Woodbridge are as follows -- congratulations to the winners (in bold, with asterisks, along with total votes):

First Selectman
Edward Maum Sheehy (D) 1,558*
Ken Colabella (R) 890

Board of Selectmen

Beth Heller (D) 1,470*
James K. Sabshin (D) 1,365*
Sandra T. Stein (D) 1,345*
Thomas Kenefick (R) 990*
Laura Ferrante Fernandes (R) 895*
William J. Fox (R) 914

Woodbridge Board of Education
Sheila McCreven (D) 1,321*
Clotilde Dudley Smith (D) 1,182*
Yanyun Wu (D) 1,174*
Steven Fleischman (R) 1,094*
David Barkin (R) 1,079*
Matthew Gilbride 1,056

Board of Assessment Appeals
Lisa Stanger (D) 1,221*
Gregory Coyne (R) 1,092

Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA)
Mark Levine (D) 1,257*
Henry Nusbaum (D) 1,209*
David Bernard (D) 1,141*
Philip "Buddy" DeGennaro (R) 1,120*
Sandra Elias (R) 1,116*
Stephen Francis (R) 1,005

ZBA Alternate
Benson Snaider (D) 1,193*
Ernest "Buddy" Britton (R) 1,076

Amity Regional Board of Education
Rita Gedansky (D) 1,366*
Patricia Cardozo (D) 1,306*
Chris A. DeLeone (R) 1,066
Daniel Burns (R) 914

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*Please note this is an unofficial tally*

Creating a Google Maps Mash-up for VAN data?

What does that mean, Jellybean?

Recap video of CT delegation in Denver

Jen Just has put together a brief glimpse for us, to show what it was like to experience Denver with the CT delegation. Check it out:



This is a great song, too -- it's from John Legend and was created for the Obama campaign. Excellent!

We've been looking
for the world to change
if you feel the same
then go on and say it...

If you're out there
stand up and say it loud
if you're out there
tomorrow's starting now

Give 'Em Truth, Joe!

Joe Biden has a few words about the GOP's myopic view of America, "On jobs, on healthcare, on the environment -- on all the things that matter to the people in the neighborhoods I grew up in... they see something different than I see!"

Yup, "That's not stock photo keyword searching we can believe in"

This seems too unbelievable to be true. But. What else explains McCain's use of a backdrop image not of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, but Walter Reed Middle School in California?

From Talking Points Memo very early this morning/late last night:

...several readers have suggested that perhaps one of the tech geeks charged with setting up the audio/visual bells and whistles for the evening was tasked with getting pictures of Walter Reed Army Medical Center but goofed and got this instead. At first I thought, No, that's ridiculous. This is a major political party with big time professionals putting this together. Nothing is left to chance. I mean, is this the RNC or a scene out Spinal Tap...

Late update also from TPM:

Meanwhile, here's another fun wrinkle: It turns out that the building behind McCain was also used as the backdrop for Matt Santos' announcement of his presidential candidacy on The West Wing.

Check it out (and what? what? is he saying "there's no such thing as false hope" for real?):

Yes, but clearly Jimmy Smits knew it was a school, not an army hospital!

That about says it all, eh?

Really, do we need to read any further, when we wake up to a headline like this from #rnc08 in the New York Times?

Paper of record and all that. Heeeeeeeeee!

PS> Oh, but wait. There's more!


That one's the headline from Talking Points Memo this morning. They've got a fond look back at our Long Gone Joe, too. Gee, gosh golly!