2025 Elections!
Nov. 5th, 2025 09:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mallorys_camera
Now that a million people are due to exodus NYC, I'm gonna get my ass a brownstone in the Village, bay-bee!
(Yes, that really is the cover of the New York Post this morning.)
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RTT won!!!!
Spanberger (Virginia governor) and Sherill (New Jersey governor) won!!!!
Adrienne & Joey did not win, but Adrienne only lost by 45 votes, which, considering that she ran in deepest, darkest Trumplandia, I rather think is a win of sorts. This underscores the importance of voting in local elections!!! You may think positions like School Board member & Village Clerk are unimportant. They're not! They're the pebbles you use to build bigger political alliances.
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Anyway. I didn't get nearly enough work done yesterday on account of I had to eat half a box of Ritz Peanut Butter Bits and watch Selling Sunset (which makes The Real Housewives look like the Ted Talk on spacetime curvature Albert Einstein delivered to the seraphin upon his ascension into Heaven).
So, now I better get on the stick and start cranking out that Remunerative prose 'cause I'm gonna need to come up with a down payment for that Village brownstone.
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Date: 2025-11-05 05:33 pm (UTC)Wow. That was close for Adrienne. An amazing result in such a pro-Trump area. I think your campaigning must have made a real difference.
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Date: 2025-11-05 05:40 pm (UTC)I saw a bit of commentary about voter turnout, but not any sort of summary of how this year's turnout compares to other off-year elections. Some of the propaganda I saw related to Mamdani's win suggested some of his success was associated with energizing his base and thus encouraging better turnout.
I'm still thoroughly pissed off about horrible nonsense happening on a federal level, though. UGH!!
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Date: 2025-11-05 05:49 pm (UTC)Indeed. And Mamdani's lack of any kind of administrative experience is a huge issue. He better be smart enough to delegate to capable administrators & to figure out a way to keep a tax base in NYC (which is a very expensive city to run). I would have voted for him myself (because who could pass up such a great "Fuck you!!!!" opportunity, right?), and I'm rooting for him, but it's gonna be a hard, hard uphill battle.
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Date: 2025-11-06 02:41 am (UTC)Hey Mamdani looks good in a red jumpsuit. He should wear it all the time!
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Date: 2025-11-07 10:31 pm (UTC)Hurrayyyy, and congratulations!!
And congratulations to Adrienne for coming close; I agree with you. And she (and you) worked hard.
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