"I feel great. It's a well-deserved win. She was the underdog up until about three weeks ago, but you could feel the momentum building," he said.
Brune credited female voters for a great deal of this momentum.
"I think it's the women who gave her the victory," he said.
Teresa Cardoso, a school committee member for Somerville's ward two said she counted herself among these female supporters.
"It will be great to have a qualified female mayor for the first time in the city's history, " she said.
Venture capitalist and former Eighth District congressional candidate John O'Connor said Gay's status as a political outsider allowed her a fresh perspective.
"She's never been part of the good old boys' network. I think you'll see much more effective experimentation on many issues," O'Connor said.
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