Dean comments on the DNC blog about the elections...

I especially liked that he appreciated what had happened to Donna Frye in San Diego, what a shame it was there. And he appreciated how close Leslie Byrne came..especially for a progressive liberal type woman in a red state whose opponent pounded her endlessly.

http://www.democrats.org/a/2005/11/a_great_day_for.php

"Great Democratic mayors were elected across the country. Even some of our candidates who did not win provided some good news. I would argue that Leslie Byrne, who ran as a true progressive for Lt. Governor of Virginia and lost by just over two points, provided a huge boost to progressive politics in a state that four years ago was much more conservative than it is today.

There was some bad news. Our candidate for Mayor of San Diego, Donna Frye, lost after being denied a victory earlier in the year by a judge who threw out some absentee ballots. That will be San Diego's loss; they have already suffered much under Republican corruption."

Good job staying on message.

:-)

out whenever it happens and how it effects our everyday lives.

I wish all Dem spokespeople would get on board and push through the point that Democrats have always been at the forefront against government corruption.

The last two DNC chairs never took this on when they should have.

San Diego may need a few more years of GOP trauma before they wake up and boot the bastards out. But they will.

"Here is the good news, and there is a lot of it. Voters rejected Republican dirty-tricks politics. They rejected the Republican culture of corruption and incompetence (a real factor in Virginia). And in California they rejected the Bush-like politics of the soon to be one-Term-inator Governor Schwarzenegger by defeating all four of his initiatives."

Ok, Howard..."one-term-inator"...funny.

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