Yesterday was election day, and I'll summarize the latest.
A nice detail: this picture of our community house was on the New York Times front page:
Ripton passed its budget (
source),
as did most towns.
In town elections, all unopposed candidates won. For the one contested seat, Perry Hanson narrowly defeated Dick Collitt for Select Board, 116 votes to 112 (
source).
Act 46 passed all seven ACSU towns as of
around 10 pm election night,
along with four other districts, so board unification will proceed.
Votes were as follows:
Bridport
Yes:334 No:98
Cornwall
Yes:404 No:63
Middlebury
Yes:1631 No:278
Ripton
Yes: 150 No:93
Salisbury
Yes: 251 No:78
Shoreham
Yes: 305 No:143
Weybridge
Yes: 329 No:39
Given Act 46 approval, people from all seven towns elected representatives to the new Addison County Supervisory District (ACSD). Broken down by town of residency and votes received:
Bridport: Suzanne Buck
Suzanne Buck - 1538
Rick Scott - 1182
Cornwall: Peter Conlon
Peter Conlon - 2975
Middlebury: Victoria Jette, JP Rees, Ruth Hardy, Jason Duquette-Hoffman, Lorraine Morse, Steve Orzech, Josh Quinn
Victoria Jette - 2716
JP Rees - 2105
Ruth Hardy - 2540
Jason Duquette-Hoffman - 2356
Lorraine Morse, - 2643
Steve Orzech - 2068
Josh Quinn – 2300
Ripton: Perry Hanson
Bryan Alexander - 993
Perry Hanson - 1033
Jerome Shedd - 498
Salisbury: Jennifer Nuceder
Jennifer Nuceder - 2800
Shoreham: Nick Causton
Nick Causton - 2741
Weybridge: Chris Eaton
Christoper Eaton - 2754
Here's how Riptonites voted for the school board.
In the presidential primary, Ripton folks leaned towards Bernie Sanders (
source) (
another source):
Democratic: Sanders 190, Clinton 26
Republican: Trump 13, Kasich 10, Cruz 5, Rubio 4, Carson 1, Paul 1
