On November 7, 2007, Libertarian members won these significant non-partisan elections: Bill Lynn to the Davenport, Iowa Board of Alderman; Rob Oates to the Caldwell, Idaho, city council; Mark Owen to the Owasso, Michigan city council; Andy LeCureaux to the Hazel Park, Michigan city council; Mark Byrne to the Port Huron, Michigan city council; David Eisenbacher to the Troy, Michigan city council; T. J. Rohr to the Lenoir, North Carolina city council; Henry Boschen to the Roxobel, North Carolina town council. UPDATE: also, Ruben Perez was elected to the San Antonio River Authority.
Green Party members won these significant non-partisan elections: John Anton to the Portland, Maine city council; Luc Schuster to the Cambridge, Massachusetts school committee; Chuck Turner to the Boston, Massachusetts city council; Dan Robinson to the Takoma Park, Maryland city council; Larry Bragman and Lew Tremain to the Fairfax, California city council; Chris Simmons to the Loudon County, Virginia soil and water conservation board.
Lew Tremaine’s re-election in Fairfax is too close to call right now. He’s 12 votes ahead with several times that number of provisional and late absentee ballots yet to be tabulated. Larry Bragman, though, is way ahead.
A Libertarian was elected to the City Council in Port Huron, Michigan. This town was the site for the founding of Students for a Democratic Society – the founding document of SDS was the “Port Huron Statement.”
More evidence that the center of dissent has moved from the New Left to the Libertarian Movement.