Election Day today. Well at least the other shoe dropped. Sigh!

[TayTay]

We had local elections today. The good news: my husband wasn't running this year or he would have lost for sure. It was an anti-incumbent day. And the ballot question about a specific tax being raised to fund the schools didn't go down 2-1 like it did last year, but it still went down. And we lost one school committee person in favor of someone who believes in 'magic money' that just suddenly appears and solves all the local problems. Sigh! The really good news? Ahm, it's over for another year. (Maybe my husband will just retire next year. It takes a lot to keep doing this local stuff. I wonder how some people do it.)

I think this has been on my mind a lot lately. Sword of Damocles, I think. (Maybe that's why I've been peevish lately.) But at least it's over for now. Now we have the cleanup town meeting next week, which should be just a barrel of laughs as we cut one teacher for each grade, sigh! Then we start the really nasty cuts, like no sports and no extra-curricular activities until further notice. (Read 2006-7 school year.) Sigh. It's going to be another fun year of greeting friends and neighbors at local events. Sigh!

Somebody cheer me up. This is going to take hours to get over. Sigh!

[_dynamicdems]

1. How's this for starters......

[TayTay]

2. Thanks! I needed that.

Great pic of Gore, Kerry and the late Joe Moakley. I love that pic.

I also love the 2008 shirt. Gotta get me one of them puppies.

It's not all bad. The Red Sox are kicking the crap out of the Yankees right now. But it's not a great game. (On the other hand, any win over the Yankees is great.)

Sigh! The people have spoken, the bastards. (BTW, I vote on paper ballot counted by Accu-vote scanners.)

[_dynamicdems]

3. It sounds like a dismal outcome, but that is one hell of quote:

"The people have spoken, the bastards." THAT would go good on a t-shirt.

[ProSense]

7. LOL! n/t

[karynnj]

4. The earliest endorsement for President ever

and he even gave him a tee shirt - I think we need to hold him to it or else he'd a flip-flopper!

Those election results suck. That really has to be bad for the schools.

[JI7]

5. i wonder how much Gore may personally have wanted Kerry for vp

because that's what the shirt indicates.

of course vp decisions always involve politics so it's not as simple as getting your personal first choice. i heard Kerry's was Durbin, but two liberals and Catholics from solid Dem states ruled it out when you bring politics into it.

[rox63]

6. Was Durbin even interested?

I never heard about him being on the list.

[ProSense]

8. How about some local politics elsewhere!

Tay, you always have great stories. Here's one to take your mind off that stuff:

Maplewood political rivals battle after damage to historic gate
By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer Thursday, May 4, 2006 12:18 AM EDT



This wrought iron gate, located at the entrance to Hickory Drive, was damaged after David Huemer struck it with his car. The gates are remnants of an estate in which an uncle of former President Theodore Roosevelt used to stay in the summers during 1870s.

MAPLEWOOD, NJ - The rivalry between Mayor Fred R. Profeta Jr. and Township Committee David Huemer took an odd turn last month — straight into a historic piece of Maplewood.

Huemer was driving his car the morning of April 18, the day of the school election, through Maplewood. Around 9 a.m., he hit a wrought iron gate at the foot of Hickory Drive and Ridgewood Road.

Huemer was not injured, witnesses confirmed.

“He was OK,” said Risa Olinsky, who lives on Hickory Drive.

The same could not be said for the gate, however. According to Profeta, the crash caused “extensive” damage that will need to be fixed.

In an e-mail sent to the News-Record, Huemer wrote he got out of his car, looked at the gate and “did not notice anything wrong and moved my car.”


Profeta, who also lives on Hickory Drive, was home the day of the accident. A portion of the gate runs along his property, which he is responsible for maintaining. The mayor estimates that it will cost in excess of $1,000 to fix the damage, and he’s asking Huemer to foot the bill.

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http://www.localsource.com/articles/2006/05/05/news_-_record/news/local/doc44597e7488876447906657.txt