W E D N E S D A Y NOVEMBER 6, 2002
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD Volume CXXXVII, No. 107
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Cicilline, Segal win; Carcieri defeats York Green Segal rides wave of support to 1st Ward victory The 22-year-old emerged as the victor with over 38 percent of the vote, winning a seat on Providence’s 15member City Council BY ADAM STELLA
what they hoped would be a victory speech. It was clear by 9 p.m., though, that Carcieri was winning despite York’s strong support among Providence-area voters. Despite her loss, York said during her 11 p.m. concession, “I’m still determined to do everything I can for the people of Rhode Island.”
Green Party candidate David Segal won the hotly contested four-way 1st Ward City Council race yesterday with broad support from the Brown community. Segal captured 38.6 percent of the vote, beating out Democrat Kyle Diggins who received 28.8 percent, Independent Harry Bilodeau who received 22.3 percent and Republican Bill Miller, who received 10.4 percent. Both neighborhood and student support played a major role in Segal’s victory. In the polling places where most Brown students vote, Salomon Hall and the Ladder 8 Firehouse, Segal beat his next closest competitors by 231 and 207 votes, respectively. Overall, Segal garnered 1,068 votes and would have won the race even if the votes at Salomon Hall had not been counted. “I’m sort of flabbergasted,” Segal said at his victory speech at the Trinity Brewhouse on Fountain Street in downtown Providence. The race’s outcome is significant in part because Segal is the first Green Party candidate elected in Rhode Island. “It was a triumph of the Green Party, a triumph of Sanders Kleinfeld / Herald youth and a triumph of real Green Party candidate issues,” said Riana Good ’03, David Segal spoke to his president of the Green Party campaign workers and at Brown. supporters at the Trinity Segal attributed much of Brewhouse Tuesday. his success to his ability to set the policy agenda for the campaign and at the Oct. 9 1st Ward candidates debate, he said. Segal entered the race because of a passion for the issues, but also to help overcome “debilitating shyness,” he said. Constant campaigning and public speaking helped him reduce but not eliminate this shyness, he said. Segal will join a city council comprised of 13 returning Democrats and one newly elected Democrat, Miguel Luna in the 9th Ward. His challenge will be to serve as the minority leader on the council, Good said. “Just as in the campaign, he will bring issues to the table,” she said. Segal credited the many Brown students and Brown alumni who worked on his campaign for his success. They were his “adoring fans” in the last tense days of the campaign, he said. “Brown students were a major part of the infrastruc-
see RHODE ISLAND, page 4
see SEGAL, page 6
Allison Lombardo / Herald
Democrat Myrth York conceded the gubernatorial election to Republican Donald Carcieri ’65 Tuesday night at Democratic headquarters in the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Providence. Carcieri won with 55 percent of the vote.
Expectation and disappointment As predicted, David Cicilline ’83 coasted to victory in the mayoral election with 84 percent of the vote; Myrth York, in her third campaign for governor, was defeated by Republican Donald Carcieri ’65 BY JULIETTE WALLACK
Brown graduates will lead city and state governments, with Democratic candidate David Cicilline ’83 elected mayor of Providence and Republican candidate Donald Carcieri ‘65 elected governor of Rhode Island. Nationally, Republicans maintained their majority representation in the U.S. House of Representatives and took control of the Senate in Tuesday’s elections. Cicilline, who led polls since winning the Democratic primary in September, defeated the three other mayoral candidates by winning 84 percent of the vote. Carcieri, who pulled ahead of his Democratic opponent Myrth York in the polls just days before the election, earned 55 percent of the vote. York is now a three-time losing candidate, having waged unsuccessful campaigns for governor in 1994 and 1998. At Tuesday night’s traditional Democratic Party gathering at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Providence, revelry was muted by York’s defeat, and even Cicilline’s landslide victory seemed mundane after months of the impending victory. York thanked her supporters who had gathered to hear
Allison Lombardo / Herald
Democrat Matt Brown delivered his victory speech at party headquarters last night. He will serve as the next Rhode Island Secretary of State.
I N S I D E W E D N E S D AY, N O V E M B E R 6 , 2 0 0 2 Brown, NASA team up on zero-gravity in-flight research program page 3
VP Janina Montero pitches expansion of student services to ACUP page 5
At monthly meeting, faculty approve first step in U. govt. reorganization page 5
TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Complete coverage of Tuesday’s elections for U.S. House, Senate and governorships pages 9-12
Camille Gerwin ’03 says U. should also sponsor a ‘Ms. Brown University’ pageant column, page 15
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