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Citing ‘prejudice,’ aldermanic candidate loses
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| Last Edited | RBH Feb 25, 2013 02:18pm |
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| News Date | Monday, February 25, 2013 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | After Santiago Berrios-Bones won Friday’s Ward 14 aldermanic special election by a margin of 46 votes, his opponent, Alberto Bustos, is now claiming the victory is the result of a divisive anti-immigrant message.
The two men were seeking the Fair Haven seat on the New Haven Board of Aldermen vacated in January by the long-absent Gabriel Santiago, who had not shown up to a Board of Aldermen meeting for over five months before his resignation. Berrios-Bones, a 64-year-old teacher at Wilbur Cross High School, and Bustos, a Grand Avenue businessman, ran on similar platforms of traffic calming, heightened security and increased communication with ward residents. Winning 186 votes to Bustos’ 140, Berrios-Bones will serve for the remainder of Santiagio’s unfinished two-year term until the start of 2014.
Reflecting on the race over the weekend, Bustos chalked up his opponent’s victory to a message he called xenophobic. Bustos immigrated to New Haven from Peru in 1981, while Berrios-Bones moved to the city in 1987 from Puerto Rico. Bustos said he lost because Berrios-Bones was able to exploit their difference in origins. |
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