{"id":982,"date":"2009-11-08T05:39:51","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/?p=982"},"modified":"2009-11-08T05:39:51","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:39:51","slug":"republicans-sweep-westchester-county-new-york-on-anti-tax-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/republicans-sweep-westchester-county-new-york-on-anti-tax-message.php","title":{"rendered":"Republicans sweep Westchester County, New York on Anti-Tax message"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Fiery Fiscal Conservative Republican Rob Astorino crushed 3-term incumbent Democrat Andrew Spano for Westchester County Executive. Astorino is described as a \"relative unknown.\"<\/p>

The day after his win, Astorino commented to WNYC radio<\/a>:<\/p>

\"This is a very big message to Albany that they cannot keep taxing and spending the way they are.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>

LoHud.com<\/a> (Lower Hudson Valley) reports:<\/p>

It wasn't quite a red wave that washed across northern Westchester Tuesday, but it certainly wasn't a bad night to be a Republican.<\/p>

Voters ousted Democratic supervisors in Yorktown and Lewisboro and elected GOP majorities in both towns, as they did in North Castle,?North Salem and Somers. A 24-year-old Republican even cracked the all-Democratic Ossining Town Board.<\/p><\/blockquote>

As one specific example, Yorktown shifted from a Town Board of 4-1Democrat to 3-2 Republican.<\/p>

\"\"<\/a>The issues that caused the stunning GOP Wins? Taxes and the Economy. LowHud interviewed two local Voters:<\/p>

Taxes are out of control in Yorktown, voter and mother of two Lisa Starkey said.<\/p>

\"It's a great community to live in, but they're making it unaffordable,\" she said.<\/p>

That's what brought John Lemke out to vote for the Republican slate.<\/p>

\"Rising taxes are creating a real hardship on the residents here,\" Lemke said.<\/p><\/blockquote>

Democrat elected officials have become such a pariah in this heavily Blue New York City suburb that one Democrat even got beat by a Libertarian. Continuing:<\/p>

In North Castle, where Democratic Supervisor Reese Berman did not seek re-election, the Democrat came in third behind the Republican and an independent endorsed by the Libertarian Party.<\/p><\/blockquote>

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