Katonah, NY - Kelly Won't Concede Defeat

Katonah, NY Congresswoman Sue Kelly is not giving up her fight to win re-election. In a tough campaign against John Hall that ended with Hall ahead by some 3,200 to 3,500 votes, she said that she will not rest until everyone who voted is counted.
There are some 10,000 absentee ballots that are out there and Kelly, a Republican, wants them all tallied. “Right now it would appear that John Hall has won, but there’s enough outstanding votes that I am going to insist that every vote get counted."

But none of that really mattered in Kiryas Joel, Hall got roughly 2,900 votes in Kiryas Joel, including those cast by a Democrat-leaning voting bloc, and KJ claims that their Mayor Abraham Wieder's eleventh-hour decision to move its votes from Kelly's column into Hall's had pushed Hall over the top. What, they asked themselves is, what had Kelly gotten for Kiryas Joel. They had asked for $5 million for sidewalks she rustled up only $600,000, she also failed to get them homeland security money and abandoned their $20 million grant for a water pipeline when neighboring communities kicked up a fuss.

Kiryas Joel Administrator Gedalye Szegedin explained, it was the widening rift between Kiryas Joel's nominally Republican leaders and the Republican leadership of Orange County - largely as the result of the county's decision to sue Kiryas Joel over its proposed pipeline to the Catskill Aqueduct.
"Eddie Diana should not have gone to court against the pipeline, period," Szegedin said, referring to the Republican county executive. "If the Republicans don't want us, fine. We get the message loud and clear."

Hall brushed aside insinuations by the Kelly campaign that he promised to support the water project if Kiryas Joel leaders endorsed him.
But will his new constituents ask him to resurrect the pipeline grant if they succeed in court? "Absolutely," Szegedin said.