Our local corrupt bottom-feeding political machine was decisively beaten in recent election, just when they thought they could make a come back.  Truth be told, there was an opening for their resurgence.  That door has now closed and I don't think they can wedge it open again; they will have been out of power for too long and their political contacts in Santa Fe will have evaporated.

The thing is ... you can't win in local government.  There's not a lot of good that can be accomplish.  There IS a lot of harm that can be done and has been done here by graft, skimming, & so on.  We're a poor community - the joke is we aren't noticing the recession because we've never moved out of the Depression - and the 'liberating' of $10,000 here, $5,000 there, hurt us bad in the past.  The last town administration really cleaned-up and this one promises to continue to spend Public monies on the Public.

So in one small corner of the world: A Win.