Well the election made one thing very clear again, If PLAN Boulder and Ruzzin/Toor/etc endorsed George Bush, he would get elected here. For a community that prides itself on being independent thinkers there sure isn't a whole lot of thought put in to who people select.
Ken Wilson is a smart guy and I probably will agree with him most of the time but I really don't think it serves us well to have a council that marches in lock-step with no discenting viewpoints that would lead to better decisions due to the wider variety of options discussed.
And for those running in November, start sucking up to the powers that be. The 20 or so votes among that group are the votes that matter.
But with that said, Matt Applebaum coming in second is a very pleasant surprise. Matt is not liked by the powers that be (he has independent thoughts at times). And 67% voted not Ken Wilson so there was a substantial part of the electorate that actually exercised independent judgement.
Turning to The Big Line, I was off a bit on the odds for Wilson/Applebaum/Espinoza, mainly due to my thinking that we would not have so many people voting for the annointed candidate. But I think I was reasonably close on those.
I was way off on Tom Riley. Way, way, way George Bush level of miserable failure off on my guess for him. And I was a bit off on Hernandez and Peterson, but it's such small numbers by then that it's hard to get real accurate.
It also looks like money does not matter that much in the election. I did a graph of votes vs dollars and number of donors and there was basically no match. Eugene Pearson's large donations didn't appear to boost him at all. And Alan O'Hashi and Shawn Coleman did almost as good as Eugene with no money.
I will put together a new Big Line this weekend composed of those who told either me (via email) or the Camera that you are running in November. If you do/dn't want to be on the list, email me to confirm either way.
