Ingham County, MI Democrats sweep local teabaggers out of office.
Wednesday, Nov. 7 — Democrats won some surprising and historic victories in Lansing and Ingham County on Tuesday.
In Delhi Township a divisive election season ended with Democrats almost sweeping the GOP of out of office – many of them considered tea partiers . In the supervisor race, Democrat C.J. Davis beat his Republican challenger, Jeff Hall, by more than 500 votes. Hall was riding a wave of success since he organized against — and helped defeat — a proposed sludge dryer and trounced Stuart Goodrich, the former Republican supervisor, in the primary.
Many Republicans crossed party lines to support Davis.
“I wasn’t the only Republican to cross the street in that election,” Lansing radio host Tim Barron said today. “There was some pretty nasty stuff floated by some of the candidates, especially toward Stuart Goodrich. I think that left a bad taste in the mouths of decent people.”
Along with Hall, Republicans Steve Dougan (who was running for treasurer), Derek Bajema (an incumbent trustee) and clerk candidate Denise Dragonetti all lost to Democrats. John Hayhoe, a Republican incumbent trustee, was the only GOP member to win a seat on the board. Jon Harmon, Megan Ketchum and DiAnne Warfield, all Dems, won the other three trustee spots.
Davis said he was “stunned” by his margin of victory. He said it was the shots coming from the Republican trenches that ticked off voters the most, which ultimately gave him the election.
“I think overall people thought there was too much fighting and too much aggression,” he said. “I think people saw me an outside influence and I know people were voting for me just so they were voting against (Hall). Delhi is not in horrible straits, we don’t have massive deficits, we’ve been smart and now we just need to continue on that path.”
Voters in Meridian Township made history this election by selecting an entirely Democratic township board. Elizabeth LeGoff won the supervisor seat by a few percentage points, Brett Dreyfus beat his opponent for the clerk’s spot by 14 percent and Julie Brixie swamped her opponent by gaining over 60 percent of the vote for the treasurer position. Voters elected Democrats, Milton Scales, incumbent John Veenstra, Angela Wilson and Don Styka to the four trustee positions.
Dreyfus is the first Democrat to take the township clerk position in 40 years, he said.
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Here's hoping this becomes a national trend! Get these idiotic despots out of American government! WTG Michigan, well done!! Congratulations MI citizenry!!!
