Albuquerque Municipal Election, Tuesday, October 5, 2005

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Council seat runoffs happen the same way as mayoral runoff?

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WMS happy at Chavez victory! Hell freezes over!

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Where should the urban growth be? Left says only infill, and then gripes about sprawl. Center says both infill and at the edges, since without growth at the edges where are the working class and middle class going to live?

In the infill.
Obviously situation where I live is a little different, since I'm not in a massive-growth country, but some of this sounds well-known to me. Certainly filling-up of gaps in central areas - and especially on ex-industrial areas - gets support from all over the board, while new developments on the outskirts are viewed with mixed feelings at best by both the greenish left and by those parts of the right living near them. Your typical SPD politico is probably the most enthusiastic about this stuff...it should be pointed out that there was next to no new housing (of either type) planned in Frankfurt during the period of CDU dominance at the local level, 1977-89. Things have changed since - with the unstable majorities since 1995 probably *more* active than the red-green city government of 89-95. (Although of course, stuff planned then wasn't built until afterwards, so this may be a wrong impression...)

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I believe it. Straight away.

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While the Center is hostile to not building roads just because they're not needed.
Actually, I'm surprised. Shouldn't the left be opposed to widening roads in the older areas even more than anything else?

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Now this is fucking weird.

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Hope it stays that way...enclaves may spring up once the areas age.

Two big controversies: The Montano Bridge, running through the southern end of the highly-affluent yuppie Libertarian Village of Los Ranchos de Albuquerque. Delayed for 30 years by those same yuppies - who are currently fighting restriping the bridge to handle four lanes of traffic instead of two. You see, because of the many, many, lawsuits, the bridge is big enough for four lanes but is only striped for two lanes. [/quote]Now, if these were India, people would use all six lanes anyways.

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(Petroglyph monument) over their betrayal.

Knowing nothing about this controversy but a little bit about similar controversies elsewhere in the world...makes me wonder if this agreement wasn't made purely tactically, ie signing everything to keep the petroglyphs from destruction, but never actually changing position - and certainly *actually* opposing the road all along?
Oh, btw, and just fmi - which Pueblos exactly?

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What's that mean?

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...typical how the West Side actually choked due to a road built but wants (and in all likelihood, really needs) more roads built...just goes to show it does not make sense to approve of just any new road project - they can make traffic situations worse as well as better. Of course, that doesn't say just don't build any roads. (I used to try and play Sim City that way - not building any roads, linking everything by railway. The game didn't buy it though. )

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Not saying the left's claim is correct o/c, but that doesn#t actually prove all *that* much.

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That would be hideous if enforceable.

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Where are you living now?

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"from the Spanish word for Sun and the Korean word for Bridge". No. Not my style.

jfern - how exactly? Look at the map? How can you build a road through the monument but not through the monument?

They actually would have to move some petroglyphs? Well, I can see how that will get the Sandia irate...but I was more concerned with, what sort of stone is it? Any chance of damage outside the road proper? (After all, the claim that the monument will be "destroyed", however ridiculous in light of the full facts, must be coming from somewhere...) Any sort of footpaths, whatever... throughout the monument that will be cut?

Sim City just kept telling me to build roads, and people moved out instead of using my shining new railroads. Notice that there weren't any roads in these cities - hey. I was just a kid that preferred streetcars to cars.

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Ì gotta say, the city limits look frigging weird.
Yeah, I know, the Monument.

Anyways...
Who took second place behind Chavez in what district?

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Thanks, very nice work!
D1 people - maybe low turnout?

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D1
MIGUEL A. GOMEZ    2,110            87    99    2,296    38.74%
KEN SANCHEZ              3,226    228    176    3,630    61.26%
5,926 Total Votes

COUNCIL DISTRICT 3 - Candidate/Issue - Precinct - Absentee - Early - Total - Percentage
ISAAC BENTON                3,563    246    178    3,987       55.72%
DIANA DORN-JONES    2,853        163     134     3,150    44.03%
DECLARED WRITE-IN         10      6    2         18    0.25%
7,155 Total Votes
COUNCIL DISTRICT 5 - Candidate/Issue - Precinct - Absentee - Early - Total - Percentage
MICHAEL CADIGAN    5,931        574    275       6,780   69.72%
BETTY VALDEZ                2,676    124        144        2,944    30.28%
9,724 Total Votes
 COUNCIL DISTRICT 7 - Candidate/Issue - Precinct - Absentee - Early - Total - Percentage
MARIANNE DICKINSON       3,617      467    158       4,242    34.75%
WAYNE A. JOHNSON        1,947    199     67      2,213    18.13%
SALLY MAYER                       4,665      608    156       5,429    44.48%
EDWARD DOUGLAS GLENN      249         58      15     322      2.64%
12,206 Total Votes

COUNCIL DISTRICT 9 - Candidate/Issue - Precinct - Absentee - Early - Total - Percentage
TINA L. CUMMINS    1,924          249    78    2,251     26.73%
VIVIAN CORDOVA           1,024          65    26    1,115     13.24%
CHRIS CATECHIS            1,856         194    61    2,111     25.07%
DON F. HARRIS              2,625    261      57      2,943    34.95%
8,420 Total Votes

District 1, 6460 vs 5920
District 2, 9632
District 3, 7750 vs 7155
District 4, 10765
District 5, 10744 vs 9731
District 6, 7769
District 7, 13019 vs 12206
District 8, 12049
District 9, 9102 vs 8420

D1 is on the West Side, after all... I assume the districts were last regerrymandered in 2000? That's an awfully high difference in vote no.s to be due just to changes in residence patterns over 5 years, so I'm assuming there must be a turnout effect.
First thing I can think of is people staying at home who identify with the left on many issues but being Westsiders take your stance on the infrastructure thing, and therefore weren't inspired by either candidate (both for mayor and for council) - does that make sense?

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D1
MIGUEL A. GOMEZ    2,110            87    99    2,296    38.74%
KEN SANCHEZ              3,226    228    176    3,630    61.26%
5,926 Total Votes

District 1, 6460 vs 5920
District 2, 9632
District 3, 7750 vs 7155
District 4, 10765
District 5, 10744 vs 9731
District 6, 7769
District 7, 13019 vs 12206
District 8, 12049
District 9, 9102 vs 8420

D1 is on the West Side, after all... I assume the districts were last regerrymandered in 2000? That's an awfully high difference in vote no.s to be due just to changes in residence patterns over 5 years, so I'm assuming there must be a turnout effect.
First thing I can think of is people staying at home who identify with the left on many issues but being Westsiders take your stance on the infrastructure thing, and therefore weren't inspired by either candidate (both for mayor and for council) - does that make sense?

Yes, Lewis, I did notice more people voted for Mayor than Councillor. Nothing new here - there are some voters who come out only to vote for the executive office, whether President or Mayor. F'in Weird.

Ah, did you compare 2001 vs 2005? Your numbers are pretty close for those two (2003 is, well, pointless since no Mayor and no Council race = low turnout, if you could even find those results anyway). And yes, that's a bit of a drop. I don't think anyone really knows why yet...although I agree that something odd happened to turnout (and not just in that district). I'll answer your second paragraph at the bottom of my post.

No, that's 2005 mayoral vs council. I just took your numbers and edited all the info you put between them out, to be able to see them more clearly. You see I got a somewhat visual memory. (And I domn't remember why I didn't edit out the full D1 result - probably just an error. As is the last digit of "5920".)

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Hey, I know I've seen far worse districts in the US. I pretty much use regerrymander as a synonym for redistrict.

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Do that.

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Ah, got it. I still claim that some of the difference is caused by the 'I only vote for one race' voters.

No contest here, that is the reason. Hey - that's the race they been talking about on the local news on tv. Whoever heard of the candidates for that city council race? What's a city council?

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What do you need to show to prove you're you to vote in Albuquerque? Wouldn`t this require a quite massive organization, well beyond the likely financial means of a city councillor? What exactly is ALCORN?

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Nevermind that, not that important.