[Peace-discuss] poverty and anti-war referenda pass overwhelmingly!

[Jenifer Cartwright]

Yes, I tho't the Repub candidate (Miller?) made quite a good showing. I expected the event would be a debate, but it was really more of a Q and A until twds the very end when Reitz got upset at something Miller said (which Reitz apparently took personally) and interrupted her. It was actually quite shocking -- she could have been held in contempt if it had been a real courtroom!
   --Jenifer 

"C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:
  The success of the referenda is by far the most important result of these 
elections. The survival of a 19th-century democratic process shows up the
eviscerated state of current election procedures. (It's only to be expected 
that there's a move in the legislature to get rid of the township referenda.)

Regarding the States' Attorney, the Republican candidate apparently made a good 
showing at the Law School debate. --CGE


Stuart Levy wrote:
> *all four* advisory referenda
> passed by large, mostly overwhelming, margins.
> 
> In Champaign:
> 
> Poverty referendum: 71% Yes, 29% No !!!
> Military Commissions Act: 68% Yes, 32% No
> De-fund Iraq War: 61% Yes, 39% No
> 
> (Even in the most conservative Champaign district
> I could find, the Iraq War referendum, the least
> popular of these, came out about 50-50.)
> 
> In Urbana/Cunningham:
> 
> No Unauthorized Iran War: 81% Yes, 19% No
> Detainees' Rights/M.C.A.: 79% Yes, 21% No
> De-fund Iraq War: 69% Yes, 31% No
> 
> And, about 90% of those who voted at all, in either city,
> also voted on the referenda. So people noticed the
> issues and cared about them.
> 
> No longer can the Champaign City Council say that the
> people of Champaign prefer that they continue their
> neglect of the poorest people of this town.
> 
> Good job, all!
> 
> 
> Julia Rietz won with about 81% of the Dem. State's Attorney
> vote, vs. Alfred Ivy's 19%. Though disappointing, he surely
> has had a tremendous influence on the kinds of questions
> that are getting raised -- and how they're getting answered,
> or conspicuously not answered -- in the the S.A. campaign.
> 
> 
> Also, Giraldo Rosales is now the Dem. candidate for
> County Board District 6.
> 
> The Urbana Park District tax increase failed by about 1%.
> 
> The Dem. Pres. race in the county went about 74/24 Obama/Clinton,
> with about 1.5% going for Edwards and 0.6% for Kucinich
> (one of those 132 votes was mine). And of the Dem. 
> delegates, about 1% went for those four listing Edwards
> by their names, and 0.7% for the one who listed Richardson.
> (Anyone know what that association means in Illinois?)
> 
> Cynthia McKinney won handily among the Greens,
> and McCain did fractionally better than Romney in the county,
> about 37%/36%/17%/7% for McCain/Romney/Huckabee/Paul.
> 
> - Stuart
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