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

[C. G. Estabrook]

I may have missed it, but I saw no coverage of this in the N-G last night.  --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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