Foxx wins! Lassiter doesn’t
November 4th, 2009 by Rhiannon Bowman in News
Whew. That was close. But, only one candidate can win and that distinction goes to Democrat Anthony Foxx, who will forevermore be known as Charlotte’s second African-American mayor.
Early voting data came in first, as you’d expect, and put Foxx out front. Within an hour, however, his lead slipped and his rival, Republican John Lassiter, was in the lead.
Now, I hate horse race electoral coverage as much as the next person — but this really was one of those elections where one minute one candidate lead by a couple hundred votes and 10 minutes later the other one was in the lead by a few hundred.
If you’re interested in a play-by-play on the the night, check out the #CLTvote Twitter hashtag. (If you want to read them in order, read the older posts first.)
Not long after 10 p.m., the final tally was in and Foxx was named the winner with 51.48 percent of the vote to Lassiter’s 48.45 percent. There were 73 write-in votes. (Really?)
The pathetic news: Only only 106,994 citizens chose to vote for the next leader of the country’s 19th largest city. What gives, people? If any election should prove that your vote counts, it’s this one.
If you’re wondering how your ‘hood voted, check out this cool interactive map from The Charlotte Observer.
In related news, voters cleaned house in the school board election and three towns in Union County will now serve mixed drinks.
Watch Lassiter’s concession speech here, Foxx’s victory speech here (do note the color and tone of the crowds, will ya) and one of the winner’s campaign ads here:
November 4th, 2009 at 10:21 am
For Dunlap and Leaky, this must be an act of promoting failure to get them out of the way or something.
I wonder how the election for mayor would have gone if there was a no chu chu person on the ballot. What a waste of money.
November 4th, 2009 at 11:39 am
On another note the Democrats got Waxed in the major national elections last night.
The Democrats lost the gov position in NJ. They had an incumbent democrat in a deep deep deep blue state and they still lost to an evil republican!
In Virginia the Democrat also lost by 18%. The state went for Obama by a wide margin and now lost to an evil Republican in a landslide!
These two big elections show that the public is very displeased with the economic decisions of the Obama teams and this partially spilled over into these elections.
It’s looking more and more like 1994 is about to repeat itself.
November 4th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
So, one vote and you can read thousands of people’s minds?
You’re crazier than we suspected.
What?
November 4th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Actually you are crazy.
This was hundreds of thousands of votes my ignorant friend. I also do not have to read minds. The votes speak for themselves and people told why and how they voted during the election coverage. Its amazing how knowing the facts is somehow magical to those people who know very little about the world around them.
November 4th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Here’s an idea: Frank should move to NJ or VA.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Nationalist socialists were replaced by nationalist socialists in NJ and VA.
the black republicrat beat the white republicrat here in Charlotte.
The mandate was given with less than 30% of the electorate.
That’s good — Foxx has no legitimacy. 70% of voters, including me, ignored it.
November 5th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
Re:Ditto
I formerly lived in one of those states, and currently live in the other. I don’t want to find him in either state. He seems more suitably red for a real red state like Texass!Anf If he can’t afford the freight there,let him sret his
ass in South Carolinass!
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