First Incumbent St. Paul Mayor to Get Beat Since 1974

St. Paul mayoral race: Coleman defeats Kelly

St. Paul voters punished Mayor Randy Kelly today for standing with President Bush a year ago, denying the Democrat a second term in Minnesota's capital city. Former City Council member Chris Coleman, also a Democrat, routed Kelly by a more than 2-1 margin in unofficial returns with most precincts reporting.

http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/5715831.html

Take that, you Mayberry Machiavellian corrupt kakistocrats.

Dan Brown
Saint Paul, Minnesota

I would toss a coke back to that!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=160x15173

It's not THAT long till Thanksgiving week.

visiting the inlaws in the Los Angeles area

I should know, but I can't remember.

I can't believe it, but the Wikipedia site is already updated with Chris Coleman's name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_Saint_Paul,_Minnesota

But nothing specific.

I was careening around the jackpine forests of north central Wisconsin as a wayward teen in 1974.

mayor, who was a Democrat then

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What was Kelly thinking? It's not like the election was going to swing on who the mayor of a large-ish Midwestern city endorsed. He could have kept his mouth shut and probably would have won tonight. Dumb, dumb, dumb. A well-deserved (and self-inflicted) throttling.

like Norm Coleman.

After all, we did have Normie as a Mayor so Kelly had some stiff competition in the "dumb" department. :7

But you bring up an interesting point. If Kelly hadn't endorsed Dubya, would he have really have won re-election? Anyone out there have any idea of how popular Kelly was with Saint Paulites before the endorsement? I'm not a good one to judge this as I have never liked him. I voted against him last time and would have voted against him again this time regardless. So if anyone out there has a better grasp of where Kelly stood prior to endorsing Dubya, please feel free to throw in your .02.

The other things he had done were not so egregious that enough people would have paid attention to the election to drive him out.

I'm so proud of my neighbors to the South! :yourock:

Yes, that'll teach you, Republican Randy. Traitor

Way to go St. Paul!!!!!!!!!!

Matt :)

From one drunk irishman to all of you who designed the streets!

:toast: :beer: :popcorn:

:beer:

"Kelly found it impossible to change the topic in the campaign's final weeks. He tried to tout his record of adding affordable housing while keeping property taxes steady, and the mayor sought to paint Coleman as a tax-raiser beholden to public employee unions."

Kelly claims he has a record of keeping property taxes steady??? WTF? What about the friggin' proposed 20% increase I'm looking at? And how much did they go up last year? And the year before? Un, ex-Mayor Kelly, would you please give me your definition of "steady?" If "steady" means "going through the roof", well, then yeah, I guess you've held property taxes "steady." Asshat. Good riddance.

I bet Coleman gets blamed for the upcoming property tax increase, even though it happened on Randy Quisling Kelly's non-watch.

I love the bagpipers! At the victory party!

I believe I was outside protesting the fact that Dubya was allowed to set foot in MN. There should be laws against that. Yes, this is a free country but as Dubya himself said, "there should be limits to freedom." Bwahahaha! I can only hope that Fitzgerald will set some limits on the freedom of Dubya and his entire cabal. I'd say life without parole would be a good start.

I remember when they turned the outside screen off because the crowd of protesters outside were getting into chanting to it.

That is EXACTLY what I was thinking as I fed my ballot (hoping my votes were going to be counted, of course)...into the DIEBOLD optiscanner.

TAKE THAT, BUSH!!!

Hey Randy Kelly, are you surprised that the voters rejected a Pharisee-based religion, forced reallocation of wealth upward, and the misuse of our armed forces in corporate pirating of other nations' resources?

If you are, you're as stupid as Fortunate Son and the other mobsters you seem to like so much.

that it wouldn't come back to bite him in the ass!

That shows how short-sighted, self-involved, and out-of-touch with the people he governed he really is.

How can anyone think that Democrats are going to win by becoming more like Republicans?

Go ahead, click that link!