YES for Approval 7,762 (55.2%)
NO for Rejection 6,308 (44.8%)
Total votes cast 14,070
We will analyze the vote further tomorrow, but the message of change that began in September 2006 with the CMP vote and was continued in the 2008 City Council election is still alive. We can trust the voters to see through all the Fear & Smear, through the conspiracy theories of C.J. Lewis and his 5,000 flyers, and vote based on the facts.
The No’s will whine and gnash their teeth about how the Pro-charter side raised more money than No Boss Money, but the reality is No Boss Mayor had no grassroots support. It was a bunch of city retirees, ex-city councilmen and angry old men who needed money from Washington DC to fund their bitching.
The naysayers can’t win an election. They are no longer relevant, but they will keep their BLAB show, write letters to the editor and appear at council meetings.