Council 5 Winner Paul Koretz

The results have been finalized and Paul Koretz won the Council 5 Seat by 702 votes.

Although deeply disappointed in the results, we are so proud of the race that David Vahedi ran and hope that he will run again. The race was inspiring to many of us who worked on his campaign. Volunteers and Staff from both the Clinton and Obama campaigns came together as a team to bring forward a candidate we all believed in and still believe in. We did it without negative mailers or lies. We did it with less money and less name recognition. We did it with almost no party support and everyone should be incredibly proud of the work they did.

We hope Mr. Koretz is humbled by the slim margin win and makes it a point to reach out to the community and mend the fences that were broken as a result the negative and false attacks made on David. Politics as usual can no longer be the norm.

That said, we wish Mr. Koretz the best of luck of luck in this new and politically charged venture.