So much for the preliminaries.
Now it’s on to November.
But the show will go on without Paula Brown. The longtime activist and Darby mayor came up short in her race for a Democratic nomination for Darby Borough Council.
The same goes for Linda Houldin in Newtown Township. The longtime GOP power became a victim of the Republican in-fighting that has marked the township for the past couple of years.
And don’t look for Jim Devenney to be back on the Springfield commissioners. After being ousted in a flap over pool privileges at the township country club, it looks like he lost a bid to regain his old seat.
In the only contested countywide race, Democrats managed to fend off the slate of Republican judicial candidates who cross-filed for seats on the Count Court of Common Pleas.
Probably the biggest story of the day, however, is that voters stayed away in droves.
Sure you could blame the rain. But is it too much to ask for people to exercise their franchise in light of what was at stake.
We have heard a loud hew and cry over the state budget and its effect on local school budgets. So where was everybody when it comes to the people who are going to make those decisions?
It’s inexcusable.
Now it’s on to November.
But the show will go on without Paula Brown. The longtime activist and Darby mayor came up short in her race for a Democratic nomination for Darby Borough Council.
The same goes for Linda Houldin in Newtown Township. The longtime GOP power became a victim of the Republican in-fighting that has marked the township for the past couple of years.
And don’t look for Jim Devenney to be back on the Springfield commissioners. After being ousted in a flap over pool privileges at the township country club, it looks like he lost a bid to regain his old seat.
In the only contested countywide race, Democrats managed to fend off the slate of Republican judicial candidates who cross-filed for seats on the Count Court of Common Pleas.
Probably the biggest story of the day, however, is that voters stayed away in droves.
Sure you could blame the rain. But is it too much to ask for people to exercise their franchise in light of what was at stake.
We have heard a loud hew and cry over the state budget and its effect on local school budgets. So where was everybody when it comes to the people who are going to make those decisions?
It’s inexcusable.
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