I'm so happy for Albuquerque today. Being gone now, I remember those great day-afters (the first progressive slate on the Council!) and those awful ones (Marty's re-election) like they were yesterday, and the great day-afters always felt so rewarding and special. Kudos to everyone locally who worked so hard for last night's results, and for the candidates who truly deserve a chance to give back. I totally agree with Marj - I can't wait to see Rey's fantastic smile up there with the Council. (I guess I'll have to watch online now - what a dork!) And Debbie is just outstanding, through and through.
It's interesting to me how cyclical Albuquerque is, how much of a check voters sometimes like to give candidates they only just rewarded a cycle ago. The story with this election is all about Marty's power, and perhaps voting down his slate of candidates is less about those candidates than it is about his own blatant, abhorrent quest for power at all costs. Albuquerque always seems to me to appreciate a middle ground where a variety of folks can come together to govern. And now we even have Sally Mayer talking to the papers about how Marty needs to get his act together... his time has come and is, I hope, GOING. Just in time for that gubernatorial bid to crash and burn, I might add...
I can't say enough about what it means for the workforce housing act to be funded. Someone very special to m-pyre, planning professor Claudia Isaac, worked very hard gearing up toward yesterday's vote, and she deserves a huge hug for her efforts.
On Sunday a group of us were talking about Marty's true colors when it comes to housing, that interplay between how distasteful his politics are in town versus how some of his policies might play favorably outside of town. Claudia offered a telling check on that notion with the workforce housing act as an example: this is a man who does not support fair and equitable housing for folks who need it in his own town. This is not a man that anyone should be supporting on a larger scale, and saying that is about much, much more than how nasty he is within city limits.
From me, a big hug to my old city from my new city today. ABQ, your votes will not disappoint you.
Go here for a cool video that reminded me of Rey 
I don't know about y'all's analysis on Marty, but I'm not there right now. I don't have alligators, but I have cockroaches.
And the cockroaches pretty much predicted what happened last night. Maybe not the scale, but...
I just think the "Marty Slate" was out-organized. At least that's what I want to think 
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