To nobody's surprise, city Councilor Ellen Zoppo secured the Democratic mayoral nomination tonight by a wide margin.
Zoppo collected 40 Democratic Town Committee votes compared to 18 for city Councilor Art Ward, who vows to primary.
Here's the endorsed Democratic slate:
MAYOR
Ellen Zoppo
TREASURER
Bill Veits
CITY COUNCIL
District One
Cliff Block
Rich Kilby
District Two
Kevin McCauley
Bruce Lydem
District Three
Frank Nicastro
Craig Minor
BOARD OF EDUCATION
Barbara Doyle
Julie Luczkow
Tom O'Brien
Jane Anastasio
Karen Vibert
Sherry Turcotte
In the 3rd District, Terry Parker plans primary in the council race.
In the 2nd District, Tom Ragaini also plans a council primary.
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4 comments:
Nobody's surprise Steve? How long have you been covering politics? Is Ward not a threat? We'll see what the silent majority not just the Democrat insiders think in September.
It came as no surprise that the town committee backed Zoppo. Nobody in political circles had the slightest illusion that Ward could win the committee vote, including Ward.
Now a primary, of course, offers a totally different scenario.
I'll post about that later.
DTC is NOT the voice of this town!
The voters of this town come Sept. will shine a very bright light on what WE WANT & WHO WE WANT.
The voters of this town will not be heard in September, because that's only for political party voters, not Independents, who are the biggest voting block in this town.
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