{"id":10262,"date":"2021-11-03T01:01:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T06:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/?p=10262"},"modified":"2021-11-03T15:06:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T20:06:49","slug":"charlie-sisitsky-to-be-framinghams-next-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2021\/11\/03\/politics\/charlie-sisitsky-to-be-framinghams-next-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Sisitsky to be Framingham's Next Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/charlie-for-framingham-1024x580.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10266\" width=\"324\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/charlie-for-framingham-1024x580.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/charlie-for-framingham-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/charlie-for-framingham-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/charlie-for-framingham-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/charlie-for-framingham.jpg 1304w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><figcaption>Charlie Sisitsky, elected Mayor of Framingham, Massachusetts November 2, 2021.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FRAMINGHAM, MA<\/strong> - According to preliminary results, Charlie Sisitsky beat incumbent Mayor Yvonne Spicer by a more that 2-to-1 margin:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Sisitsky: 8,283<\/strong><\/li><li><em>Spicer: 3,909<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The percentage of votes for each candidate appear very similar to those cast in the September 14th, 2021 primary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>In the primary only 1938 votes were cast for Spicer while Sisitsky more than doubled that number with 4401 votes.  Carlos Valadares a third candidate on the September ballot only received 363 votes and was eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday night, shortly after Framingham polls closed and early (unofficial) numbers were in Spicer conceded she'd lost the  election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just before midnight, using the \"Charlie For Framingham\" (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CSForFramingham\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CSForFramingham\" target=\"_blank\">@CSForFramingham<\/a>) Twitter account, Sisitsky tweeted his acceptance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CSForFramingham\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"615\" height=\"722\" src=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211102-charlie-sisitsky-tweet.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211102-charlie-sisitsky-tweet.jpg 615w, https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211102-charlie-sisitsky-tweet-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211102-charlie-sisitsky-tweet-128x150.jpg 128w, https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211102-charlie-sisitsky-tweet-300x352.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In the tweet he wrote: <em>\"This election was never about one person -- it was about the people of Framingham -- and tonight, the voters showed us that they wanted change. We have much work to do in Framingham. As your Mayor, I will work tirelessly to represent the best interests of everyone in our City.\"<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRAMINGHAM, MA &#8211; According to preliminary results, Charlie Sisitsky beat incumbent Mayor Yvonne Spicer by a more that 2-to-1 margin: Sisitsky: 8,283 Spicer: 3,909 The percentage of votes for each candidate appear very similar to those cast in the September 14th, 2021 primary&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2021\/11\/03\/politics\/charlie-sisitsky-to-be-framinghams-next-mayor\/\">[read more]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":10266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1775,4446,4912,1958],"class_list":["post-10262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-charlie-sisitsky","tag-framingham-mayor","tag-framingham-politics","tag-mayor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10262"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10271,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10262\/revisions\/10271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}