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Before midnight, the election departments of Inyo and Mono counties tallied final votes on local candidates. Many focused earlier in the evening on the very close Presidential race and President Obama’s early victory.

In Inyo County, the 4th District Supervisor race stood 4 votes apart in the semi official report last night with provisional ballots yet to count. Mark Tillemans gained 644 votes to Supervisor Marty Fortney’s 640 votes. The 5th District Supervisor race was not so close. Matt Kingsley won with 527 votes to Jim Gentry’s 421 votes.

In the Bishop City Council race, the three top vote-getters and winners are Dave Stottlemyre with 608 votes, Pat Gardner with 559 votes and Laura Smith with 513 votes. Susan Cullen gained 359 votes and Keith Glidewell, 353.

In the Big Pine School Board race, the three winners are Sandra Lund with 442 votes; Denelle Carrington, 420 votes; Carla Bacoch, 387 votes. Robert Vance gained 300 votes. In the Owens Valley School Board race, the incumbents won. Sandra Anderson with 189 votes and Aldene Felton, 132. April Zrelak had 104 votes. The voter turn-out in Inyo was 66.36%. See more results at http://www.inyocounty.us/Recorder/3rd_11-6-12_Summary_Report.pdf

In Mono County, the Elections Department reported a very high 83.05% voter turn-out. The Mono County website shows the semi official summary report. There are still some provisional votes to count which could affect close races.

In the District 4 Supervisor race, candidate Tim Fesko won with 561 votes. Challenger Bob Peters gained 484 votes. In the Mammoth School Board race, Shana Stapp won the most votes with 1,588. John Stavlo gained 1,386 votes. Stapp and Stavlo won the two open seats. Candidate Luis Villanueva had 826 votes.

In the Eastern Sierra Unified School District, in Area #2, John Peters won with 786 votes to Pamela Haas Duhart’s 781 votes. In Area #3, James “Jimmy” Little won with 962 votes to challenger Arya Degenhaudt’s 621 votes.

The Mammoth Hospital Board seats did not go to a race. Just enough candidates filed for seats available. The hospital board could appoint the three candidates to fill the vacancies at the end of November. The three who filed are Dr. Maria King, Dr. Stephen Swisher and Helen Shepherd.

See all Mono results at http://www.monocounty.ca.gov/. Under News and Announcements, click on election results.

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Trouble
Trouble
11 years ago

I think Big Al and Benett both touch on a important topic, especially here in California. If it is true that California democrats have a super majority now, our state will be the focus of which party’s beliefs our correct. There will be no stone walling or stone walling excuses… Read more »

quietstorm
quietstorm
11 years ago
Reply to  Trouble

I think it was Romney that said….look at the “state” the state of California if you want to see what the future of the entire US will look like under complete Democratic rule….I thought that was a great observation.

quietstorm
quietstorm
11 years ago
Reply to  quietstorm

meant to say: “look at the ‘state’ of the state of California”

Trouble
Trouble
11 years ago
Reply to  quietstorm

quietstorm- I would love to have a politician come around that says what he would really do , instead of playing with peoples fears about the other party.

Philip Anaya
Philip Anaya
11 years ago

If there is heaven on earth it’s gotta be the Inyo. It’s so apparent every time I walk out my door and see the sky ,the mountains and then I might drive somewhere and get to wave back to folks, some I don’t even know. Contrast that to being down… Read more »

Big AL
Big AL
11 years ago

you know obama inherited, that is just the response i expect … some people just don’t like a black president. Why is it, people can talk about thing such as this, one side praises the president. The other side voices they concern or their feelings about the president and what… Read more »

Benett Kessler
Benett Kessler
11 years ago
Reply to  Big AL

Did you see the 60 Minutes interview of Obama some weeks ago? Steve Croft asked him about his biggest disappointment. The President responded that it was the fact that in Washington, “Politics trumps problem solving.” There’s the problem. Everyone there on both sides of the aisle has to remember that… Read more »

quietstorm
quietstorm
11 years ago
Reply to  Benett Kessler

Using executive orders to get things done is NOT how our government was designed to work. There is a reason for Congress…it’s so that the executive branch of the government does not over use it’s power to over ride the will of the people. Some thing must stand in the… Read more »

Benett Kessler
Benett Kessler
11 years ago
Reply to  quietstorm

Yes, our democracy is about checks and balances. It is also about willingness to serve the public and get things done to benefit the public. Perhaps you did not see and hear Senator Mitch McConnell who declared several years ago that it was the Republicans’ mission to make sure the… Read more »

Mark
Mark
11 years ago
Reply to  Benett Kessler

nice dream Benett, there hasn’t been any checks or balances in years.

Obama will ruin this country and time is on my side to proove it. Thank God we have the House to tell him no as much as they can.

Benett Kessler
Benett Kessler
11 years ago
Reply to  Mark

I have no idea what you are talking about. The only thing I see ruining our country is the system of big corporations giving politicians money to vote the way they want and elected officials with no character going along with it.
BK

Mark
Mark
11 years ago
Reply to  quietstorm

When democracy fails, a dictator rises to power

Big Al and racial tensions
Big Al and racial tensions
11 years ago
Reply to  Big AL

Big Al must have forgotten that it hasn’t been all that long ago that brother was killing brother in the Civil War. You remember the Civil War. It was where some people think black people should be the slaves of whites. “The South shall rise again!” is a call we… Read more »

Ken Warner
Ken Warner
11 years ago

People say Obama is spending too much money. He’s not spending it. He’s paying for what Bush and Co. bought. Saying Obama is spending too much money is a fine example of “Romneysia”

Trouble
Trouble
11 years ago
Reply to  Ken Warner

We could send every high school student in the nation to college for the price of those two bull…. wars.

Obama inherited a mess
Obama inherited a mess
11 years ago
Reply to  Ken Warner

In total agreement with you, Ken. President Obama inherited trumped-up wars created by Cheney and Co. (former CEOs of defense contractors – Lockheed Martin and Halliburton) against a country (Iraq) that had nothing to do with the 9/11 tragedy. Here’s how it works: Declare war, send in troops, and those… Read more »

Wayne Deja
Wayne Deja
11 years ago

Obama inherited a mess…..RIGHT ON with that post…I don’t think this Country will ever totally recover from the Bush years…and certainally not in my life-time.But there will be progress in about 2 1/2 years…IMO…As far as your last sentence,here in Lone Pine,where there were very few Obama voters,everytime the subject… Read more »

john Delgado
john Delgado
11 years ago
Reply to  Wayne Deja

Colorado & Washington state shall see total Recovery & Booming times because They decided to take tha lead in being masters of their own Destinies and doing what’s right for the People of their respective State Republics and forgo behaving like Sheeeple 🙂

Well-run elections
Well-run elections
11 years ago

And speaking of elections … unlike the myriad of awful problems with voting across the country, I am continually amazed at how well run the elections have been in Mammoth Lakes and other places in the County. From the attentive poll-workers to the easy-to-vote machines, voting in Mammoth has never… Read more »

America going broke
America going broke
11 years ago

America started going broke paying for two unwinnable, pointless wars that only made Dick and Lynne Cheney (former CEOs of defense contractors Halliburton and Lockheed Martin) even more filthy rich. Then American companies found out they can make products cheaper overseas.

upthecreek
upthecreek
11 years ago

Correction… “America is broke” to the tune of 18 TRILLION Dollars.

Big AL
Big AL
11 years ago
Reply to  upthecreek

America is not broke .. in hock, yes, to the likes of China. Just wait after four more years, they will out right own the whole nation, better learn to speak Chinese … and learn to love communism. We have the where with all to turn this around, but it… Read more »

Ken Warner
Ken Warner
11 years ago
Reply to  Big AL

It may surprise many of you, but Japan has bought almost as much debt as China. That’s what it means when people say, “…borrow from China, etc….” That really means that they have bought long term Treasury bonds. Anybody could buy them. Here’s the top ten buyers of T-bills: http://www.davemanuel.com/us-national-debt-clock.php… Read more »

upthecreek
upthecreek
11 years ago

“I think we just witnessed the death of the worlds most powerful economy and country..”

GGW

Well alrighty then
Well alrighty then
11 years ago
Reply to  upthecreek

Sorry up the creek, but it was already dieing

john Delgado
john Delgado
11 years ago
Reply to  upthecreek

Yep, tha I.M.F. already decided to Pull – tha – Plug on america in 2016, They said it’s gonna happen couple years ago, nobody paid attention bcuz everybody was watching “american Idol, dancing with the stars, & Dog the Bounty Hunter eheheheh LoL