Junior Rodriguez Elected Parish President!
In what was thought would be a very tight election, Junior Rodriguez has been declared the winner of the Parish President race by a comfortable margin of 12% or 3,096 votes over challenger Scott Wolfe. There was a large number of attack ads run by supporters of both campaigns, leading many to think the race would be tighter than it turned out to be.
The unofficial results show Rodriguez with 13,916 votes to Wolfe's 10,851.
In a quiet race, Walter Boasso defeated challenger Wayne Landry for the Senate District One seat. Encompassing all of St. Bernard parish and parts of Orleans, Plaquemines, and St. Tammy, Boasso easily carried Orleans, St. Bernard, and St. Tammany parishes, losing only in Plaquemines. The parish results are shown on the Secretary of States
web site.
In the other parish wide election, former Senator and Parish President Lynn Dean defeated challenger Joe Gallodoro by 1,321 votes (5% of all votes cast). This election was tighter than expected given that Lynn Dean carried 48% of the vote in Primary election six weeks ago. But, to give credit to Dean, he pulled in these votes with no campaigning, relying only on his regular column in the St. Bernard News.
In District races for Council, Mark Madary defeated Ryan Valee by 117 votes for Councilman District A.
Political newcomer Judy Hoffmeister overcame outgoing Parish President Charlie Ponstein to win the District B seat by a margin of 372 votes.
In District D, newcomer Tiffany Ingargiola narrowly lost to political veteran Craig Taffaro by 152 votes. As a side note to this election, WDSU Channel 6 apparently got their names transposed. They had the numbers correct, but displayed them on the wrong name. You can see a picture of the mixup
here. An Adobe Acrobat file of the entire page is available
here.
In other St. Bernard news, the two amendments to the Parish Charter easily passed with 73% of the vote. The Lake Borgne Levee District property tax renewal passed with 63%.
In statewide elections, Kathleen Blanco defeated Bobby Jindal to become Louisiana's first woman governor. Robert Wooley defeated Dan Kyle for Commissioner of Insurance.
You can get all the St. Bernard Election
results from the Secretary of States web site or from the parishes
web site.
Be good to yourself,
Westley Annis
westley@da-parish.com
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posted by Westley at 11/15/2003 11:15:03 PM
