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

[John W.]

Thank you, Stuart.  Excellent reportage!



At 12:17 AM 2/6/2008, 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