Latina Activist Wins Boston City Council Seat By 1 Vote After Recount ✊🏿✊🏽 juliaforboston ✊🏻✊🏾
Julia Mejia won by just one more vote than her competitor Alejandra St. Guillen in the Boston election for City Council on Monday, December 9th, 2019. Once the votes were counted, St. Guillen’s campaign considered challenging for the legalities to check to see whether there might have been a miscount. Then Tuesday morning, St. Guillen tweeted that she’s rather inspired to be represented by City Councilor-Elect Mejia.
St. Guillen, was a public school teacher, an advocate for education, and until earlier this year served as director of the Office of Immigrant Advancement as she stepped down to focus on her campaign. She ran as an openly gay woman with her wife and child by her side. She pushed back against criticism during the campaign, where she said: “I was asked a number of times to tone down my gayness in a few circles, and I didn’t do that.” It’s quite important that both canidates are Latinas and St.
Eneida Tavares, who is Boston’s interim elections commissioner said, “It’s exciting to have a role in the city’s political history.” Tavares continued, “This is what democracy looks like... and it just goes to show that every vote counts — and the importance of actually turning out.”
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