Did Lilley have a message? Did Lilley have any background in public office? All I could see was a ridiculous amount of huge signs! I MEAN HUGE!

I'm so pleased that Vicki Barnett won with 61% of the vote!!!!! Vicki has been involved in our community for a very long time and has worked hard for our District. Yeaaaaaaa!

Congratulations to Vicki, but also to Bruce.....as great a guy as you'll EVER meet.

How incredibly ungracious of Vicki Barnett to continue to accuse Bruce Lilley of placing robocalls, even after she has won the election. As Barnett well knows but refuses to acknowledge, robocalls cannot be traced and therefore, Lilley has no way to prove that he had nothing to do with calls--as he has insisted over and over again. Now that you have another 2 years, Vicki, please get the legislation passed ASAP to ensure that the funders of robocalls have to be identified so that in the future, no candidates have to be slandered as you have repeatedly done to Lilley.

Lilly would have great so Barnett can stop bashing him. He was terrific and an honest Christian man. God bless him!

Susans, if you read what she actually said, Barnett bashed "the robocalls that came out for my opponents' side", which is absolutely accurate. Robocalls can often be traced. If Bruce truly wanted them stopped, he could have called on the State Republican Party to stop them. Either the Party was funding the calls or VERY probably knew who was. Vicki stated many times she would have made the necessary calls to stop them. I'll bet Bruce didn't even try.

I'm pleased that Barnett ran a relentlessly positive campaign. The Farmington/Farmington Hill community responded in kind, as it always does.

By the way, she has introduced legislation before to ensure propoer disclosure of the party paying for robocalls, but the Republicans in the House have bottled up this bill. Perhaps we should all write the next Speaker that we want this bill passed.

I am Thankful for Term Limits. Too bad we don't have them at the national level for legislators. Career politicians are the problem

Believe me, I did read her quote in this article and in previous ones, as well as comments she said in public that were accusatory. Saying in her statement above, “They made it very clear that you win an election in Farm/FH by having ideas and positive things to say,” certainly implicates Lilley himself and his campaign, even when stated with the comment Mark mentioned. Instead of making one last “dig” to her opponent or even mentioning anything relating to the robocalls, she could’ve been gracious upon winning and simply thanked her supporters.

What you say about the legislation being bottled up is true, but that's all the more reason for Barnett to make the conversation about the legislation itself versus personal attacks on Lilley. This could have been an opportunity for her to encourage the voters in her district to write to the speaker & other reps asking them to pass the bill. Instead, she continued to fling accusations at Lilley over and over, who had no way of defending himself. She refused to have a conversation with him about it and then declined his requests to debate in a public forum.

FYI, Lilley has said repeatedly that he doesn’t know who the calls are coming from, and that he has tried to find out. If Mark or anyone else knows how to trace these calls, then please do so, because I’m sure Lilley would love to know who was behind them just as much as the rest of us!

Susan, the unavoidable fact is that the series of robocalls were part of a nasty smear campaign against Rep. Barnett by supporters of Mr. Lilley on behalf of Mr. Lilley. Rep. Barnett's mother, family and friends received them, the second of them on Yom Kippur, no less, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. I NEVER heard Mr.Lilley denounce the lying substance of the calls or condemn the calls in any way. I did not ever hear Bruce say, much less say repeatedly, that he had tried to find out who was making these calls, and I listened very closely. If he did, and you can show me the quote, I'd be glad to change my opinion. To the contrary, all I heard Lilley say was there was no way he could find out and if he tried, it would somehow be illegal coordination with whomever was making the calls (not true -- but that's for another day).

I also know that some asked Vicki's campaign to respond in kind -- to fight fire with fire. She refused. She's a class act.

And the voters know it.

Susan,
Representative Barnett was ungracious? She was relentlessly attacked by her opponent who NEVER took responsibility or even apologized for the hateful false robocalls made daily to the voters in our community. Graciousness is saying you are sorry and you will take the time to investigate when you say you and your campaign have "nothing to do with the calls". Had the tables been turned (and they never would have been with Vicki Barnett) and Mr. Lilley was being attacked with these calls calling him disgusting, how gracious would he have been? How gracious has he been once the calls were brought to his attention? NOT AT ALL.
Why do his supporters always have to mention what a good Christian man he is? How is this relevant? Has he proved he is by taking responsibility for the attacks on a fellow human being? Is that the Christian way? Remember that silly ole concept separation of church and state?
Running with religion as a backdrop for public office, when there is no other experience to fall back on fails.
Ms. Barnett got almost 30,000 votes by running a positive clean campaign in spite of the ugliness thrown her way. It was a mandate against negativity. It was a mandate that this community supports her.
If Mr. Lilley plans to run again in the future, he needs to remember that big signs do not vote. That large glossy postcard do not vote. Voters will remember his bashing and negativity.
Vicki Barnett represents class and dignity, and our community well.

So...you castigate Ms. Barnett for being "ungracious" by merely mentioning the fact that many robocalls were made by "someone" from the opposition (who else?), and then proceed to (ungraciously) bash her for same. Someone needs to look up the word "hypocrisy".