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Friday November 10, 2006

Shorts: Elections

Jewish supe Dufty wins re-election

Bevan Dufty will serve another term as the District 8 representative on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

As of press time Wednesday, Nov. 8, with 88 percent of precincts reporting, 11,800 people, or 64 percent, had voted for Dufty. Alix Rosenthal, a deputy city attorney in Oakland, garnered 5,747 votes, or 31 percent. Both candidates are Jewish.

District 8 includes the Castro, Noe Valley, Twin Peaks, Glen Park and a few other neighborhoods.

Friedman falls short in Texas governor bid

austin (ap) | Kinky Friedman ended his unlikely and politically incorrect run for Texas governor with a tip of his black cowboy hat.

“We gave Texas a choice, and it appears she really didn’t embrace it,” Friedman told supporters Tuesday, Nov. 7 after his independent effort to unseat Republican incumbent Gov. Rick Perry failed.

The 62-year-old author and entertainer never officially conceded, but acknowledged the long odds he faced against Perry, Democrat Chris Bell and Carole Keeton Strayhorn, the Republican state comptroller who ran as an independent. All finished ahead of Friedman as Perry was reelected.

Groups laud abortion, stem-cell votes

Two Jewish groups applauded the results of two local ballot initiatives in the U.S. elections.

Hadassah: The Women’s Zionist Organization said in a statement Wednesday, Nov. 8 that its members “led the charge” to defeat an abortion ban in South Dakota, and that “in Missouri, Hadassah members were likewise instrumental in preserving the right to pursue embryonic stem cell research.”

The National Council of Jewish Women also released a statement lauding the abortion ban’s defeat as an “enormous victory for the effort to protect Roe v. Wade.”

Minn. Muslim wins

For the first time, a Muslim is set to become a U.S. congressman. Keith Ellison, a Democrat, easily defeated Alan Fine, a Jewish Republican, in a Minneapolis-area district in Tuesday’s 2006 midterm elections.

Ellison earned endorsements from leading Jews in the district and expressed regrets about his ties in the mid-1990s with the Nation of Islam, whose leader has a history of making anti-Semitic comments. He is due to visit Israel for the first time in the coming weeks as a guest of the Minnesota Jewish community.

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