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

[Morton K. Brussel]

I don't think you missed it!  There was not even a summary of the  
results of the local elections. Curious.
Also, I was interviewed by WAND for a 10pm TV spot on the subject of  
the referenda, but no part of it ever appeared. The news program took  
no notice of the referenda.  --mkb

On Feb 7, 2008, at 12:20 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:

> 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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