Kennedy celebrates her win with supporters
NEWBURGH – Incumbent Newburgh Mayor Judy Kennedy, a Democrat who
lost her party’s primary election and ran as an Independence Party
candidate, defeated Democrat Jonathan Jacobson on Tuesday.
After the final vote tally was in, she said the future of the city was riding on her reelection.
“The amount of energy that this team has put into it and what they knew was at stake and the love that they have for this city and the amount of effort they put in; all of those things put together,” Kennedy said. “We just simply made up our minds that we were going to win.”
Jacobson had some solace in the fact that his two city council running mates were elected.
“Due to the fact that the two new faces on the council, my running mates, that the council should have a new attitude, a new commitment, towards more accountability, and more oversight of the executive branch,” Jacobson said.
The Republican candidate for mayor, former councilman John Giudice, finished a distant third.
