I voted last night, natch.<\/p>\n
I voted a straight Republican ticket, to the extent that it mattered. “Big surprise, there”, I can hear some of you writing. Well, it’s not as big a lock as some of you might think.<\/p>\n
SaintPaulicy had some predictions<\/a>; sorry to say, he blew a couple.<\/p>\n We only had two races in St. Paul last night; School Board and City Council.<\/p>\n There was good news and status quo<\/em> news.<\/p>\n St. Paul School Board<\/strong><\/p>\n 18609 19.78 ANNE CARROLL It’s good news that Tom Conlon – the district’s sole I voted a straight GOP ticket – Conlon, Peterson and Gudgel – and for my fourth vote wrote in my cat<\/a>, Nosemarie. She’s becoming Saint Paul’s most-seasoned campaigner<\/a>, I think; she’s gonna get elected one day.<\/p>\n Now, off to the city council, where the news is just plain worse:<\/p>\n COUNCIL MEMBER WARD-W-01<\/strong> This is bad news; the Gang of Four is now the Gang of Five. It’s a bit of an upset – SPicy predicted “Debbie Montgomery has a past of being a history maker in Saint Paul. She is the first African-American female police officer, City Councilor and holder of other notable successes. What Debbie will now be is the first African American woman to be re-elected to City Hall. ” Blah.<\/p>\n Carter is yet another nutso liberal. Hang on to your wallets, Saint Paul. Montgomery was a voice of moderation on the district – ergo, <\/em>the DFL put her on the hit list.<\/p>\n Big tent. Hahahahaha.<\/p>\n COUNCIL MEMBER WARD-W-02<\/strong> This was a much <\/em>closer race than expected. Thune should <\/em>have buried Hosko without much effort.<\/p>\n Speaking of burying…<\/p>\n COUNCIL MEMBER WARD-W-03<\/strong> Sigh.<\/p>\n Now, to my ward:<\/p>\n COUNCIL MEMBER WARD-W-04<\/strong> The GOP in Saint Paul is a disorganized mess; there’s no money to mount a credible campaign. Which is a shame, since – even though there was never a chance that a standard Republican would win in the smug, government-employee-clogged Fourth Ward, the open seat left by Jay Benanav was at least a place to make a race of it.<\/p>\n The Fourth Congressional District GOP habitually starves the city of money, focusing its’ efforts north of Larpenteur Avenue. It has to change.<\/p>\n COUNCIL MEMBER WARD-W-05<\/strong> This hurts.<\/p>\n The “anti-Helgen” movement did their homework, pounded their pavement, and worked their butts off <\/a>to remove the (in my opinion<\/a>) loathsome Helgen from his seat. A charter member of the Gang of Four, Helgen squeaked through.<\/p>\n Blah.<\/p>\n COUNCIL MEMBER WARD-W-06<\/strong> Bostrom – one of the district’s few voices of sanity – withstood a full-court push. Thank goodness.<\/p>\n COUNCIL MEMBER WARD-W-07<\/strong> Lantry is the boot on the Saint Paul taxpayer’s throat, (seeminglyl) forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I voted last night, natch. I voted a straight Republican ticket, to the extent that it mattered. “Big surprise, there”, I can hear some of you writing. Well, it’s not as big a lock as some of you might think. SaintPaulicy had some predictions; sorry to say, he blew a couple. We only had two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n16828 17.89 KAZOUA KONG-THAO
\n13258 14.09 TOM CONLON
\n13126 13.95 KEITH HARDY
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\n11683 12.42 KEVIN RIACH
\n08969 09.53 DAVID PETERSON
\n07976 08.48 JENNETTE GUDGEL
\n03106 03.30 BERNARD RUPPERT
\n00511 00.54 WRITE-IN**
\n== == == == == == == == ==<\/p><\/blockquote>\nsane member<\/strike> Republican, got re-elected. It’s even better that he made the cut in third<\/em> rather than fourth place, by a 132 vote margin. Saint Paul’s students thank you, voters. (Next election, could we see about chasing Tom Goldstein from the building?)<\/p>\n
\n2633 57.50 MELVIN CARTER
\n1932 42.19 DEBBIE MONTGOMERY
\n0014 00.31 WRITE-IN**<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n2733 53.02 DAVE THUNE
\n2399 46.54 BILL HOSKO
\n0023 00.45 WRITE-IN**<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n4369 86.29 PAT HARRIS
\n0639 12.62 GERALD MISCHKE
\n0055 01.09 WRITE-IN**<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n3115 80.93 RUSS STARK
\n0691 17.95 TERRANCE BUSHARD
\n0043 01.12 WRITE-IN**<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n2124 51.52 LEE HELGEN
\n1983 48.10 DAVID HAAS
\n0016 00.39 WRITE-IN**<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n2507 53.69 DAN BOSTROM
\n2142 45.88 PAKOU HANG
\n0020 00.43 WRITE-IN**<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n1737 71.25 KATHY LANTRY
\n0689 28.26 JANINE KELLEY
\n0012 00.49 WRITE-IN**<\/p><\/blockquote>\n