As I sorta predicted here, the "new WGA" slate won the Writers Guild election. Here are the details.
Patric Verrone will do a fine job as president. Then again, his opponent — Ted Elliott — would have done a fine job, too. We had some very fine candidates this time, and I don't see that they were disagreeing as much as they seemed to think they were disagreeing. In any event, Patric has an enormous task ahead, just to prep the Guild for the next negotiation, which probably means prepping it for a strike. The current contract expires November 1, 2007.
Patric's slate, all of which was elected, ran on the promise to "organize, organize, organize," meaning to spend record sums to try and get a lot of non-guild writers into the Guild and to get their work areas covered. It would be nice to see them succeed and I'm optimistic that they will.