Congratulations President-elect Obama! His presidency, combined with Democratic majorities in Congress, will make possible the energy, climate, and transportation policies we need.
For some very moving photos of last night's acceptance speech, see these Grant Park photos from the Chicago Tribune.
Amazingly, Los Angeles County Measure R transportation sales tax sqeaked past its needed 2/3 majority at 67.41% YES (100% reported)!
The LA Times Bottleneck Blog gave a good description of the joyful press conference this morning at Wilshire & Western. Left are two UCLA student campaigners, and lower left are Steve Hymon with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Metro CEO Roger Snoble (click to enlarge).
Proposition 1A for High Speed Rail finished at 52.2% YES. Now we'll have a lot of work ahead going from funding to completed plans to finished projects.
And the faux-clean-energy Propositions 7 and 10 were strongly defeated, 64.9% and 59.8% NO, respectively (100% reported). Four for four!
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Election success!
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I'm one of the student campaigners. I wish I had been able to meet you - I read about your advocacy work in an article for an urban planning class that I am taking right now and I'd love to hear more about your work!
Thanks for commenting, valleygirl! Email me at lavisions (at) gmail if you'd like.
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