Democratic challenger Ed Edelson beat out incumbent Republican Bill Davis in the race for Southbury First Selectman.
The results were announced just moments ago at Southbury Town Hall. Edelson won by a vote of 2,996 to 2,016.
Complete Election Day results are below.
Note: *** Denotes wining candidate.
First Selectman
(D) Ed Edelson - 2,996 ***
(R) Bill Davis - 2,016
Board of Selectmen
(D) Ronald Pugliese - 2,143 ***
(D) Edward Gittines - 2,240 ***
(D) Donna Pereira - 2,263 ***
(R) Marcia Gore - 2,126 ***
(R) John Bucciarelli - 2,089
(R) Chad Landmon - 2,284 ***
(I) Jon Norris - 563
Region 15 Board of Education
(D) Jennifer Connelly - 2,697 ***
(D) Sharon Guck - 2,691 ***
(D) Steven Suriani - 2,344 ***
(R) John Monteleone - 2,280
(R) Jason Buchsbaum - 2,135
The following candidates were running unopposed and were all elected:
Board of Finance
(D) Justin Bette
(D) Douglas Ziemke
(R) John Michaels
Board of Finance Alternates
(R) Brian Emerick
Board of Assessment Appeals
(R) Dennis Dwyer
Planning Commission
(R) Edward Gore
(R) Richard Teardo
(R) Edward Hatfield
Planning Commission Alternates
(D) Bob Tendler
(R) Chris Radlicz
Zoning Commission
(D) Beth Barrett
(R) Todd White
Zoning Commission Alternates
(D) William Navas
Zoning Board of Appeals
(D) Paul Sullivan
(R) Geoffrey Ice
(R) Peter Peterson
Zoning Board of Appeals Alternates
(R) Alan Hull
Inland Wetlands Commission
(D) William Kimball
(R) Carl Hornbecker
(R) Jeffrey Manville
Inland Wetlands Commission Alternates
(D) Karen Huber
(R) Camille Bertrand
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It is YOU who are wrong!
Don't know why you are still complaining about every thing anyone who doesn't think like you posts. Yes I know anyone who doesn't think like you is wrong. You won. So live with the results. and save us your complaining.
The post by Stop the Madness puts it all in perspective: "Oversight costs nothing...unless it isn't done and then it can cost a great deal. It's called management. I think that the gross LACK of management by the current administration and the resultant circus has made everyone very sensitive to the possibility of more mishaps. This is Davis' failure and therefore Davis' responsibility, period." 2,998 people didn't trust this administration and said so. Some people here on Patch don't trust them and are saying so. This is about the rumors of shredding and changing numbers in town hall. True or not, management of the "rumor mill" is the responsibility of the CEO or First Selectman. But why would anyone expect any management in the last 3 weeks of his term when it was absent the first 3 years? I for one, whether paranoid or not, don't trust anything in town hall at the present moment.
And I'm a but tired of your insults.
Especially after the audit just conducted found too much money was being left in individual departments and has mandated limits and more frequent deposits. Am I the only person who remembers that just a couple of months ago the CFO was "back dating" checks?
How many town halls require badging in or signing in? I'm done with this conversation.
Further, there were MANY questionable business practices in treasury which caused BOF and BOS to spend about $20K on an operational audit of that department --are they 'paranoid also?
THOSE RECORDS ARE ALREADY SHREDDED AND GONE!!!!
In the case of the town insurance, pension plan and investments they are most certainly governed by Federal Laws including ERISA, the SEC, etc... The town government certainly has a fiduciary duty with tax dollars as well as any funds accepted from private grants, federal grants and state grants and the acceptance of those funds put the town in a whole new line of laws and regulations. Ask Greenwich what the feds did to make the town open its beaches to those dirty city dwellers or look at our own senior center that can't be used by anyone under the age of 62. And finally, I am a share or stake holder anywhere that I pay my money in exchange for services. The town has services it is required by law to provide such as safe roadways, police, fire and ambulance protection, health services and the like. In exchange for a $90,000 a year salary I have no problem expecting leadership and management from a first selectman. We did not receive that in the last 3 years. This argument is bogus and unfortunately, one easily laid to rest researching the Connecticut General Statutes. Stop the Madness remember. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink and in this last election there were 2,000 people who couldn't drink.
From the CT Office of Legislative Research: "State statute permits any municipality or political subdivision of a municipality to create by ordinance or resolution: . . . pension, retirement or other postemployment health and life benefit systems for its officers and employees and their beneficiaries, or amend any special act concerning its pension, retirement, or other postemployment health and life benefit systems, toward the maintenance in sound condition of a pension, retirement, or other postemployment health and life." benefit fund or funds, provided the rights or benefits granted to any individual under any municipal pension or retirement system shall not be diminished or eliminated (emphasis added) (CGS § 7-450). Statute also requires that an actuarial evaluation of the pension or other postemployment benefit system be performed at least once every five years by a actuary enrolled by the joint board formed under ERISA, the federal law that regulates private pensions (CGS § 7-450a). Sorry, but most municipal plans use ERISA guidelines because unlike Southbury, they don't want to try to reinvent the wheel. I'm only in office for 10 more business days, stop in and see the show!
So with no oversight of pension, medical insurance and a lame ethics code, these corrupt bunglers can rip us off even more. Rip, rip, shred, shred... Hopefully there are still files left when Edelson takes office. You supported Davis and the rest of the RTC losers. And I have no credibility? Puuuuhhhhhhlease. I'm still not feeling the love