Matthew Knickerbocker Wins Second Term: VIDEO of Acceptance Speech

Matthew Knickerbocker Wins Second Term: VIDEO of Acceptance Speech

First Selectman Matthew Knickerbocker was greeted with hoots and howls Tuesday night as he entered the Democratic Headquarters on Greenwood Ave.  after the winning re-election for a second term.

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Knickerbocker said: “We have big slate of things to do. We still have to keep working on our roads, we still have to do something with our police station, with Eureka water station and we will be very busy over the next two years.”

He congratulated the new all-female Democratic Board of Finance members who won; Pat Smithwick, Claudia J. Stephan and Eileen Freebalm.

Knickerbocker received 2,428 of the 4,390 votes cast. Republican challenger Kevin Cleary was supported by 1,299 of Bethel’s voters and Robert Burke received 663 of the votes. Cleary said he was happy he ran a clean election and met a lot of great people and friends.

Cleary, a lifelong Bethel resident has deep roots in the Bethel community and said Tuesday: “I am excited to work on a new community arts center and I have found people with passion. This is my community and I’m not going away.”

Republican candidate Kevin Cleary thanked all that voted for him and was proud that he ran a clean campaign.

CT Tea Party candidate Robert Burke was not available for comment.

Below is the list of winners for Bethel’s 2011 elections.

First Selectman

• Democrat: Matthew S. Knickerbocker

Selectman

• Democrat: Richard C. Stration
• Republican: Paul R. Szatkowski

Town Treasurer

• Democrat/Working Families: Thomas O’Leary

Board of Finance 

• Democrat: Claudia J. Stephan
• Democrat: Eileen Freebalm
• Democrat: Patricia Smithwick

Board of Education 

• Democrat/Working Families: Robin A. Renner
• Republican/Independent: Kristen M. Lacey
• Republican/Independent: Scott Anthony Clayton
• Republican/Independent: S. Lawrence Craybas
• Republican/Independent: William I. Duff

Board of Education 

• Democrat/Working Families: Ted Stevenson
• Republican/Independent: Elizabeth A. Frey

Board of Assessment Appeals

• Democrat/Working Families: Robert F. Pitt, Jr.
• Democrat: Steven DeMoura
• Republican/Independent: Alfred J. Bernard

Planning & Zoning Commission

• Democrat: Dick Shannon
• Republican/Independent: Earle Finch
• Republican/Independent: John Lennon
• Republican/Independent: Robert J. Legnard

Planning & Zoning Commission Alternate 

• Democrat: Louis F. Valenti
• Democrat/Working Families: Sandi Richards Forman

Zoning Board of Appeals

• Democrat: Justin E. Hurgin
• Republican/Independent: Melanie Ryan

Zoning Board of Appeals Alternate 

• Democrat/Working Families: Jennifer Davidson
• Republican/Independent: Susan M. Dolan

Inland Wetlands Commission 

• Democrat: Patrick Perrefort
• Democrat/Working Families: Don Goodrich

Inland Wetlands Commission Alternate

• Republican/Independent: Daniel W. O’Grady

Police Commission 

• Democrat: Christopher McCollam
• Republican/Independent: Michael Duff

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