Posted on 03/18/2005 2:25:41 PM PST by Cicero
BY COLLIN NASH STAFF WRITER
March 17, 2005
James Neville achieved a rarity in American politics on Tuesday night. He ran unopposed for a third term as mayor in a North Hempstead village, and lost.
He is the first to admit that he let his guard down.
"I got lazy," he said.
Running with the Unity Party in the tiny North Hempstead village of Baxter Estates, Neville shrugged off campaigning. A two-term village mayor, Neville, 51, came to office in March 2001, edging out challenger and two-term trustee John Maher by two votes.
By the time the short flurry of votes were tallied Tuesday night, Maher, a small-business investor with the Independence Party, had floored his unsuspecting opponent, knocking him from his mayoral seat, 29 write-in votes to Neville's 14.
"This was a well-orchestrated sneak attack," said Neville, a criminal defense attorney who was born and raised on the Port Washington peninsula.
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I sure would like to see that happen to Kerry or Kennedy up here in MA.
--that's even better (or worse) than "none of the above" getting a plurality, as it could in Nevada state votes---
So would I.
It's not a plurality, but it's a 2/3 majority.
This reminds me of the time a mayor of a small town in California, located between San Francisco and Sacramento, lost a re-election bid to a dog. If my memory is correct, the dog served as mayor for the rest of it's life.
I'll bet the dog did a good job governing the city with Aristotelian magnanimity and justice.
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