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| Top l-r: Elaina Beeman, Jill Fisher, Vic Hixon Bottom l-r: Toni Blanchard, Brenda Boyd, Pascha Burge, Will Byington, Faith Collins, Marquita Davis, Alvin Jackson |
This was a wonderful night.
I had a really good feeling about it -- which always scares me. But wow! I suppose it was the first election of my life when the majority of the voters agreed with me on each and every vote. I cast votes for nine candidates and on three ballot issues and all 12 votes went my way!
Anyone who has read Facebook posts at all in the last few months knows the two PSC and two City Commission and five Board of Education candidates I campaigned for. I am so happy that they all won.
BUT I am also very happy with the candidates the other voters added to my list. Jill Fisher has proven herself a good public service on the Board of Education and will no doubt be an asset to the Commission. I hope the Commission will follow her advice and set up a system of making long-term planning a more regular part of the commission's procedures. Will Byington has served as a leader on our Board of Education for years and Brenda Boyd as a teacher knows education from the inside and can help the board continue to build strong faculties and keep the board anchored to its mission of producing healthy, happy, and successful students.
I wish the best to the four losing candidates here in Rome. Jamie Doss served our city for decades on the commission and Randy Quick has been a stalwart of our community as a radio personality and executive as well as a commissioner. I thank them for their service and for putting themselves before to voters. Ron Roach had a long career as a teacher and coach and has been active in the community since his retirement. And Karl Gyden, a relative newcomer, is to be commended for seeking to serve us on the Board of Education.
It was not just Rome and Georgia. Virginia elected Democratic candidates for Governor and two other statewide races and gave more than a dozen additional Democratic seats to the House of Delegates. In Pennsylvania three of their Supreme Court judges were challenged for retention by an organized and very well financed effort to kick them out. The kept their positions easily. And in California people were lined up around the block in city after city to vote to counter Trump's efforts to stack the 2026 Congressional race -- 11 million votes in a one-issue off-year election.
There is a rekindling of a spirit of liberty from coast to coast tonight.
But we can't rest on our laurels. 2026 is almost here. We must have a Congress that will stand up to the great child who literally demolished a whole wing of our White House with input from nobody.
I wish the best to the four losing candidates here in Rome. Jamie Doss served our city for decades on the commission and Randy Quick has been a stalwart of our community as a radio personality and executive as well as a commissioner. I thank them for their service and for putting themselves before to voters. Ron Roach had a long career as a teacher and coach and has been active in the community since his retirement. And Karl Gyden, a relative newcomer, is to be commended for seeking to serve us on the Board of Education.
It was not just Rome and Georgia. Virginia elected Democratic candidates for Governor and two other statewide races and gave more than a dozen additional Democratic seats to the House of Delegates. In Pennsylvania three of their Supreme Court judges were challenged for retention by an organized and very well financed effort to kick them out. The kept their positions easily. And in California people were lined up around the block in city after city to vote to counter Trump's efforts to stack the 2026 Congressional race -- 11 million votes in a one-issue off-year election.
There is a rekindling of a spirit of liberty from coast to coast tonight.
But we can't rest on our laurels. 2026 is almost here. We must have a Congress that will stand up to the great child who literally demolished a whole wing of our White House with input from nobody.
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