Politics on the Hudson

Rights wins Southeast race

Posted by: Glenn Blain - Posted in 2007, Michael Rights, Southeast on Nov 21, 2007

Republican Michael Rights, who campaigned heavily on the issue of illegal immigration, has been declared the winner of the much-contested battle for Southeast town supervisor.

After the final absentee ballots were counted, Rights emerged with a 19-vote victory. Read more about it “here”:http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071121/NEWS04/711210403

 

 

 

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6 Responses to “Rights wins Southeast race”

1. YATZY! November 21st, 2007 at 12:40 pm

   amazing… southeast is a 2 to 1 republican town and rights spent what will probably be totaled as close to $200,000 for this seat and he only won with 17 votes with a nail-bitter ending to degnan who spent considerably less.

   wow, must feel like a really “sweet” victory when 6 in 1 voters were against you… ah, but such is the beauty with a 3 way race.

2. DISC OF CARNE November 21st, 2007 at 12:54 pm

   19 NOT 17. ARE ALL DEGNAN SUPPORTERS THIS MORONIC????

   CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR NEW SUPERVISOR MICHAEL RIGHTS. HE IS GOING TODO A GREAT JOB FOR SOUTHEAST. FINALLY, THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WILL BE GONE AND RIGHTS AND BALL WILL RAIN TRIUMPHANT.

3. Concerned (in da') GOP November 21st, 2007 at 1:27 pm

   Hey Meat-Disc or whatever that
   name is supposed to mean, I’d
   try doing at least a
   spell-check before you started
   calling others “morons” – I would usually wish a
   winner well in these
   circumstances, noting that
   a majority of the
   electorate voted for this
   guy, regardless of how I feel
   about him, but I cannot do
   so in this case. As mentioned
   by the poster above, six out
   of every 10 voters who went
   to the polls on election day
   did not vote for this guy.
   Rights is going to be very
   bad for the Republican Party
   and even worse for the Town.

4. Scary November 21st, 2007 at 2:51 pm

   Rights is Greg Balls guy. Now we will have two elected officials who can’t get things done. Our Town is in serious trouble with Rights, you will see how out of the norm this guy is when you start watching him in office.

5. Walter Barrett November 21st, 2007 at 4:22 pm

   Glad I don’t live in Eastern Putnam!

   One of the things everyone forgets is that Rights will have little, if anything, to do with Brewster itself. From the Southeast Comprehensive Plan…

   “The Village of Brewster, a separate political jurisdiction, is the historic center of the Town of Southeast and retains its identity as one of the centers of the Town.”

6. Ethan Edwards November 21st, 2007 at 5:43 pm

   The Village of Brewster resembles the Alamo these days.