Eva Ng, the independent businesswoman running as the GOP-endorsed candidate for Mayor of Saint Paul, faces an uphill battle.<\/p>\n
By all accounts I’ve heard, she shredded Chris Coleman in their non-debate “forum” the other night.\u00a0 This should surprise nobody; in a one-party city like Saint Paul, DFL politicians can go their entire careers without ever debating anyone about anything more substantive than “who was more sad when Paul Wellstone died”.\u00a0 Conservatives debating Saint Paul DFLers is like the SEALs attacking Smurftown; people who’ve had to hone their information and skills over decades of being an oppressed minority going up against people whose only response is autonomic chanting (“Public Option Now!\u00a0 Public Option Now!”) or ad-homina isn’t pretty.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But Ng still has to face an entrenched bureaucracy and media that is in the bag for the status quo, as well as a population that is very heavily dependent on government, either as an employer, a benefactor, or a cornerstone of their worldview.<\/p>\n
Still, she’s the first real conservative to get to the November election in forever.\u00a0 And she needs your support.<\/p>\n