Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Mayor Wins Re-Election

Apparently though, there is a tie in the Council President race between independent, John Miliano, and democrat, Jim Moore. See story here.

Cosby-Hurling won in landslide. Congats to the rest of the winners.

Unfortunately, on the County level, the freeholders retain their democrat stranglehold. When we will learn?

10 comments:

Tiger said...

I believe a lot of people in Linden took this election for granted and assumed Gerbounka would have an easy time beating Armstead so some of his would be supporters didn't bother to vote. The overall numbers were down from 2006 and this seems to support my theory. JTG got 4,905 votes to Gerbouka's 5018 in 2006. Where did all those JTG votes go? I also can't believe the support that James Moore got in this election. I guess a lot of people that voted fro Gerbounka did not bother voting for Jihn Miliano while most of the Armstead supporters didn't care whom Derek was paired with and voted along party lines.

NFS said...

Those are interesting numbers Tiger. Voter turnout was pretty good too so where did the JTG voters go?

Armstead is very competent in GOTV efforts, as well as registering new voters.

Moore over Miliano? That I would find very hard to believe and quite frankly, any way you look at it, it makes no sense.

Anonymous said...

There is only so many times you can be a turncoat. Armstead went over the crossed that line

Tiger said...

Armstead Making Some Very Serious Accusations:
I hope he has a legit reason and hard evidence for some of the things he is claiming. If you read his facebook page there are a lot of comments being made by his supporters that are obviously upset by what Derek is claiming and they are very racial and divisive. Derek likes to repeat a compliment someone made about him as "a man who brings people together". If he is merely trying to cause a problem and confusion about the outcome of the election saying there were machine breakdowns and people were turned away at the polls he will be known as a man who caused a divide.

NFS said...

When I saw the "Election News" Armstead and Moore put out (with no disclosure as to who paid for the campaign material) featuring Union County machine dems, Lesniak, Scutari and Froehlich, it was more than obvious Armstead is no "new dem" or "dem for change" or whatever else he was trying to sell himself as. IMO, his sole reason for running was because he was teed off at Bunk for removing him from the pro temp position.

BTW, it was Scutari who is quoted in that illegal campaign piece as saying "Derek Armstead has an uncanny ability to bring people together". I guess Scutari has never attended a Linden council meeting because if he had, he would see nothing could be further from the truth.

They'll say anything.

Tiger said...

This is the latest post on Armstead's Facebook page:

"An urgent meeting of citizens, church & community leaders has been scheduled for Sunday November 21 at 6:00 P.M at 812 East St. Georges Ave, Linden NJ to discuss the injustice & outraged at the confusion of the Mayoral election results.More importantly, we will also discuss the lack of support & cooperation from our lo...cal Democratic Organization. RSVP at armsteadformayor@comcast.net"

NFS said...

Senator Scutari's quote in that illegal mailer was that Armstead has an "uncanny ability to bring people together". I guess that uncanny ability doesn't apply to the local dems?

They lie in their campaign literature and then they cry foul when they don't win, essentially ADMITTING they lied about unity. What else would you expect from a liberal Union County dem? Makes my stomach churn.

NFS said...

PS to Tiger: The comments on that facebook page are as disturbing. They've been robbed? Or the one about "don't go to sleep"? He should settle his people down because they just look bad inciting that kind of crap. And let's face it, the dems do nothing for them (although Armstead secured for HIMSELF a County job). Why they are in love with the democratic party is beyond me.

Tiger said...

Do you know where the election breakdown by ward can be found. I'm having a debate with someone on the Linden forum who says that 3/4 of the votes Armstead got were from white people. I would bet otherwise.

NFS said...

@ Tiger. Sorry I took so long to post your message. I will see if I can get the ward by ward breakdown ASAP.