There will be a lot said about the results of the November 6 election in the coming days. Was the trimming of the GOP majority in the County Lej a broad cry for change or did personal, district-specific issues come into play? Does Ralph Esposito's narrow victory in Gates signal that voters have forgiven him for the town's recent financial morass or does it reveal a growing weariness with a long-serving supervisor?

Stuff to ponder.

Chili is not so complicated. The outcome was 100-percent anti-Tracy Logel. The Republican supervisor lost to Democrat David Dunning, a political neophyte, by a healthy margin. In unofficial results from the County Board of Elections, Dunning took 54.2 percent of the vote to Logel's 45.8 percent. Particularly striking when you consider that Logel's Republican running mates on the town board walked away with their races.

There is irony all over Logel's loss. Dunning, manager of a Henrietta computer company, entered the political scene as a leading figure of the "No Mall on Paul" movement - a citizen effort to quash a proposed shopping center on the corner of Paul and Archer roads. Logel was long rumored to support the shopping center. Critics accused her of almost single-handedly keeping the proposal alive over the objections of many residents, fellow board members, and after the project's developer ran for the hills.

Logel has been a divisive figure throughout her long political career. Never one to let a perceived slight pass, Logel can be combative, hyper-sensitive, and seemed to see enemies everywhere. Turnover at Town Hall during her tenure has been high - although employees refused to publicly tie their departures to the supervisor. A pair of Logel's secretaries left under contentious circumstances that are still not entirely clear.

Too, Logel has had difficulty working cooperatively. It was common at town board meetings for Logel to divulge an important piece of information - and the reactions of the rest of the board clearly indicating this was the first they'd heard of it. Board members would express outrage, dismay, and plead for better communication, only to have Logel voice surprise at their surprise, or diminish the board's role in decision-making. An example: the board, Logel included, agreed to have Cable 12 record its meetings on a trial basis for later evaluation. Near the end of the trial, it came out that Logel had purchased equipment to record the meetings and stream them out over the town's Web site instead - without consulting anyone on the town board.

Dunning is walking into the town's top job without a lick of political experience. He campaigned on a pledge to restore cooperation, trust, communication, and to end the heavy-handed tactics of the Logel years. For Chili residents, that was enough.