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August 06, 2004

Groundswells Popping Up All Over!

Tom Swift sends this story from the Strib, about a "group" of St. Paul liberals who want to recall Mayor Kelly. Money quote:

Now, a small group of St. Paul citizens says it wants to take action.

"We want to recall Mayor Kelly," said Lara Duddingston, a self-described "common person" who gathered with a group of 10 friends, neighbors and relatives Wednesday night to start the process...With just one of St. Paul's 119 precincts voting for Bush in 2000, Duddingston says the mayor is out of step with the people who elected him and therefore is not acting in the city's best interests."

"We're serious," she said. "We feel betrayed

That got Swift exercised.

And you don't want to get Tom Swift exercised.

He replies:

What we have so far is a couple of whiny lefties and their close cronies who are suddenly elevated to the status of "a group"...This woman is obviously inferring that they believed that they were voting for a liberal DFLer. To quote my good friend Dave Thune..this womans an idiot.

Kelly ran against the liberal DFL candidate as an independant, and won. He had the backing of the hated Chamber of Commerce, he previously declined to endorse Wellstoned! in favor of a more moderate candidate.

Perhaps she and her group should have given the bong a rest come election time...What we have just witnessed is the largest newspaper in the metro sniff out 10 whiny lefties who had an ice cube's chance in hell of ever getting 11 signatures on their petition, if they ever in fact got around to pulling out their crayons and making one, and elevating them to a serious threat to the Mayor.

Not the first time the Strib has disingenuously taken the left's chum, hook line and sinker.

By the way - doesn't anyone at the Strib use Google? Duddingston may be a "Self-described" "common person", but she's also a bit of a habitual political activist.

You got your pressure "group"? Swift has his:

Well I wrote to the reporter informing her that I have a recall effort underway claiming the exact same sins against Dave Thune.

I'm as serious as Thune's halitosis.

I plan to print up some petitions and take them to all of the bars and resturants in St. Paul and ask the owners to have their patrons who resent Thune's partisan anti-smoking edict to sign on.

I will have a website up and running this weekend.

And he does.

Stay tuned for more.

Posted by Mitch at August 6, 2004 09:44 PM | TrackBack
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