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August 29, 2005

Exit Yecke

Cheri Pierson Yecke has left the GOP Sixth CD primary scramble to take a job in Jeb Bush's administration.

In a press release released about half an hour ago (also received at King's), Yecke announces:

Blaine—Cheri Pierson Yecke today announced that Florida Governor Jeb Bush has invited her to play a lead role on his education team. Yecke will end her Sixth Congressional District bid to help implement Governor Bush’s reform agenda.

“I am honored to have been asked by Governor Jeb Bush to be such a significant part of his education team,” said Yecke. “It is therefore with deep regret that I announce that I will no longer be a candidate for Minnesota’s sixth district Congressional seat.”

“I will be forever grateful to the many people who have given me support in this congressional race. The volunteers and delegates who have worked for me, and the donors who have sent financial support, have served to create a strong and dynamic campaign. However, the opportunity to work for Governor Jeb Bush on an issue for which I am so passionate is an honor I cannot pass up.”

I'd say it's going to be a less interesting race, now - but Krinkie, Bachmann and Knoblach will still make it an interesting year.

King notes:

I am a bit shocked, though her bid at the Congressional seat was probably against long odds with such a deep field of candidates...I am saddened, too, on a personal level, as I have come to know Cheri as a delightful and energetic mind with both wit and grace and conviction. She is not bashful about what she believes, and her forcefulness probably pushed a few people who might have supported her into quiescence due to the force of the people who attacked her. I know a few lefty bloggers who will be happy to help her pack her bags, along with the leadership of Education Minne$ota...Jeb Bush has made education a top priority among his initiatives with the A+ Plan and Voluntary Pre-K programs. It's a good state to be an innovator for education.
As, seemingly, opposed to Minnesota.

And now there are three frontrunners.

UPDATE: Gary at Kennedy Vs. The Machine notes:

not only does Cheri Yecke stand to be the next U.S. Secretary of Education should there be another vacancy during Bush’s second term, but that she will certainly serve in such a roll if one of the 2008 frontrunners for the Republican nomination, Senator George Allen, should achieve the presidency. Yecke served a senior role in Allen’s Education Department in the 90s and would do likewise during a would-be Allen Administration.

Posted by Mitch at August 29, 2005 05:54 PM | TrackBack
Comments

From King:

I am a bit shocked, though her bid at the Congressional seat was probably against long odds with such a deep field of candidates. She certainly must have felt the same to have dropped out at this point for a position that appears to be less than another commissionership.

EY: There was the rumor going around that Yecke was planning on dropping out due to not catching on and poor fundraising.

http://dumpbachmann.blogspot.com/2005/08/yecke-bows-out-of-6th-district-for-job.html

Andy from Residual Forces has Bachmann's reaction:

http://www.residualforces.com/index.php/2005/08/29/bachmann-reaction-to-yecke-announcement/

Posted by: Eva Young at August 29, 2005 07:27 PM

Mitch,

I can't tell you how much I enjoy your blog and am a faithful reader.

I tire, however, of Eva Young's sad, sad efforts to use the Comments section to link her sad, sad blog. It would be one thing if Eva had something to say. She doesn't. The only purpose of her linking is a shameless and pathetic attempt to increase the tiny readership of her blog. Eva, moreover, is the only one who uses such tactics.

Enough, I say! If you don't already have a rule against this Eva behavior (and anyone else who follows Eva by example down the same sad, sad path), it is high time to institute one. After all, it is your blog.

Posted by: Larry at August 29, 2005 09:27 PM

Well Larry, in that last one, I linked the Dump Bachmann blog - but also Andy's blog - residual forces.

PZ Myers comments on Yecke's new job here:

http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comments/im_sorry_florida/

Posted by: Eva Young at August 29, 2005 11:07 PM

Awfully big of you, Larry, to call for an unpopular minority voice to be quashed. FYI: This is how the blogosphere works. Clicking on Eva's links is entirely voluntary.

Posted by: Ernst Stavro Blofeld at August 29, 2005 11:25 PM

Larry: I don't have a rule about linking to ones' blog - it is, in fact, a time-honored means of drawing traffic to your blog. I have no problem with it (except for Ken Avidor's material, which I consider as meritorious as Klan propaganda) - although Eva is much less graceful than most, bordering on spam. But I figure that the more people read the Dump, the more the sad truth about the blog will get out.

E-Blo: Unpopular? Huh? Haven't you read Eva? She was in the STRIB, for goodness' sake...

Posted by: mitch at August 29, 2005 11:38 PM

“Enough, I say! If you don't already have a rule against this Eva behavior (and anyone else who follows Eva by example down the same sad, sad path), it is high time to institute one. After all, it is your blog.”

Seconded. While it’s Mitch’s site and he’s free to make whatever rules he wants, I’m frankly surprised that after complaining so often of behavior that border-lines on harassment and spamming, he simply hasn’t banned her entirely by now.


Posted by: Thorley Winston at August 30, 2005 01:26 AM

Yow, talk about prescience, I just posted about Eva's pathetic attempts to generate attention this morning..as a matter of fact it's this week's Friday Funnies topic.

It's not just tossing in a couple of links here and there, no..Eva has taken to cutting entire threads from sites like Mitch's (and others) and pasting them, wholesale, onto her pitiful little web wastebasins.

But in the larger view Mitch is right. Although a link here on SITD does give her a bump, her traffic never tops a hundred these days, which seems proof that people who surf over there leave rather quickly and don't make return trips.

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