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* From Broomfield, Colorado, our Bizarro World alternate universe…
In Broomfield’s only contested local race of the 2011 election season, voters elected incumbent Pat Quinn to his third term as Broomfield mayor Tuesday night by a margin of nearly 3-to-1 over challenger Paul Madigan.
Though results will not be finalized for another two weeks, as of Tuesday night Quinn had received nearly 72 percent of the vote to Madigan’s nearly 28 percent. Turnout for the election was at about 46 percent, or 12,481 ballots cast out of 27,243 registered voters in Broomfield, in an all mail-ballot election.
Quinn was first elected mayor in 2007 in a three-way race that also involved Madigan and former City Councilman Clark Griep. He kept up on election return numbers Tuesday evening alongside City Council members and other city officials at Bumpers Grill.
“It feels great,” Quinn said of being elected for third and — due to term limits — final term. “At the end of this term, I’ll have completed 25 years of service to Broomfield. I’ve worked on open space and budget and development issues and just making Broomfield a place we all want to live.”
Quinn first got started on the community service path by serving on the Boulder County Parks and Open Space Advisory Committee in 1988, when parts of Broomfield were still in Boulder County. […]
Madigan, who was running for mayor for the fourth time this year, said via e-mail Tuesday afternoon that he would be spending the day with his children and would not be watching election returns. He could not be reached for comment Tuesday night.
* Bumper’s Grill advertises the best of 1940’s glamour and style…
I’m assuming that pic wasn’t taken during Pat Quinn’s celebration.
* Meanwhile, the Quinn-Madigan law firm in Tallahassee, Florida has picked up the Leon County Sheriff’s Office as a client.
Discuss.
posted by Rich Miller
Wednesday, Nov 2, 11 @ 3:53 am
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That Pat Quinn sounds a lot like our own Pat Quinn.
Comment by Cheswick Wednesday, Nov 2, 11 @ 7:47 am
That picture is a shot of a meeting of the Pat Quinn Fan Club, Springfield Chapter.
Comment by Cincinnatus Wednesday, Nov 2, 11 @ 8:27 am
That’s actually a view from inside Pat Quinn’s head. Great view but a lot of empty tables upstairs. I shudder to think what’s going on downstairs.
Comment by Michelle Flaherty Wednesday, Nov 2, 11 @ 8:42 am
Bumper’s Grill seems to have forgotten WWII, 60 million dead, Holocaust, Atomic warfare, mass unemployment, housing shortage, wage and price controls, Soviet Union threats, Middle East war, and Berlin Air Lift.
Yeah those times were glamourous otherwise. And if you are historically oblivious.
“Never mind those Nazis Anne Frank, look at their fashion glamour and style!”
Comment by VanillaMan Wednesday, Nov 2, 11 @ 8:47 am
“The Irish are a fair people- they never speak well of one another” Samuel Johnson
Comment by BigTwich Wednesday, Nov 2, 11 @ 10:09 am
How’s the soyburger at Bumper’s Grill?
Comment by Boone Logan Square Wednesday, Nov 2, 11 @ 10:15 am
- Michelle Flaherty - Wednesday, Nov 2, 11 @ 8:42 am:
That’s actually a view from inside Pat Quinn’s head.
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Notice it’s a bit foggy…
Comment by Cincinnatus Wednesday, Nov 2, 11 @ 11:03 am
Paul should change his name to Mike.
Comment by Bonsaso Wednesday, Nov 2, 11 @ 11:28 am