Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Homophobe John J. Petrella Brings his Hate Fest to the Campaign for City Council

 


City Council candidate John J Petrella brings his anti-Trans homophobic hate page, the Medford Observer, smack dab in the middle of Medford politics. Two years ago Petrella ran for mayor with disastrous results: Candidate Profile: John Petrella, Medford Mayor First-time candidate John Petrella shares why he is running for mayor in 2021. He clearly doesn't know how to dress the part in the photo the Medford Patch published: https://patch.com/massachusetts/medford/candidate-profile-john-petrella-medford-mayor
 
Petrella was so insignificant zero votes were noted in the final tally with 137 write in votes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VqFagOTElDZR3iWh5TbZMTHXtnI5v2S6/view?pli=1 : Incumbent Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn over challenger City Councilor John Falco, topping him by 1,584 with 32 percent of the registered voters casting ballots. Lungo-Koehn garnered 7,352 votes to Falco’s 5,768 votes. 
 
In the September 14, 2021 preliminary election Petrella got a mere 17 % of the vote and was knocked off of the Nov. 2 ballot, Now the worst-dressed candidate is running for city council in 2023: https://patch.com/massachusetts/medford/medford-preliminary-election-results-polls-close

Nearly half of voters cast a ballot for Lungo-Koehn, followed by Falco with close to 35 percent of the vote. First-time candidate John Petrella received 17 percent of the vote.  

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