Pro-Bush Democratic mayor falls out of favor in St. Paul

[JI7]

Voters here held what amounted to a referendum on the White House as they picked a mayor Tuesday, with Democratic incumbent Randy Kelly haunted by his 2004 endorsement of President Bush.

Former City Council member Chris Coleman, also a Democrat, held a commanding lead in recent polls. Three independent polls showed voters were primed to fire Kelly, and most cited his support for Bush as the reason.

"It may sound silly, but Kelly was for Bush and I'm not," said retiree Audrey Guith after casting her vote for Coleman.

No sitting St. Paul mayor had lost a campaign since 1974. Kelly had a personal election streak that spanned just as long, covering his quarter-century in the Legislature and first term as mayor of Minnesota's capital city.

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.

http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/13113128.htm

[msongs]

1. gee I used ta live in Grand Forks...great winters :-) nt

Msongs
www.msongs.com/chinamart.htm

[C_U_L8R]

2. After this election...

I bet we'll see the GOP treat Bush like he's got kooties.

(doesn't he ??)

[trotsky]

3. Current returns show Kelly losing 69% to 30%.

Voters of St. Paul did NOT appreciate his endorsement of the chimp.

[yourout]

4. That is an ass Kicking!

Nice.......very nice.

[Wickerman]

5. This is soooo sweet!!

:smoke:

[fearnobush]

6. And Bush did not win 2004.

These Dem victory elections only feed my election theft belief much more.

[vickitulsa]

17. Before I found DU, I was the only one I knew who believed this.

Even my brother, who has long been slightly left of me, did not really suspect until I brought up the idea to him that Kerry actually did WIN in 2004, that we were robbed outright by the voting machine code controllers and election fraud.

Steve had had very high hopes that JK could win last year, and of course I did too. But I was very worried after the debacle in 2000 ... and I had been tracking the voting machine situation through VerifiedVoting.com for some time before the 2004 election. When the ultimate outcome differed from the exit polling last year, I KNEW WE'D BEEN HAD, bigtime.

It wasn't until I found DU a few months ago, however, that I found there were others who were as convinced as I was that the 2004 election was stolen.

Yesterday my bro and I had a long phone chat about what really happened a year ago, and I told him the whole thing reminded me of some children's story I'd heard about long ago in a philosophy class. Unfortunately my memory is not what it once was; but this fairy tale had to do with a small town or group/community that was suffering under the "leadership" of terrible tyrant, but no one questioned his right to rule because he had been "elected."

The crux of the story was that one person finally protested aloud about those who had voted FOR this cruel tyrant ... and slowly one by one others began to say that THEY had not voted for him. Of course that's when it dawned on the group that the voting had been rigged somehow, and they proceeded to throw the cheater out. But they had endured him for so damn long simply because they had never talked about who they'd voted for among themselves -- a proud tradition in democratic communities that the fraud had counted on, in fact.

Steve then reminded me of that very old beer commercial on TV that ended with the punchline: "... MY uncle, I thought he was YOUR uncle!"


All of which makes me wonder just what will happen if Republicans ever get to talking among themselves and learn that their friends and neighbors they all THOUGHT must have voted for W really didn't, and therefore the eventual results of his "re-election" HAD to be fraudulent........

[struggle4progress]

7. Kelly campaigned for Commander AWOL:

[Isere]

8. And tonight he's licking his wounds!

Serves him right. Let this be a warning to all turncoats!

[mzmolly]

Not a politically intelligent thing to do in Wellstone Country.

;)

[Arugula Latte]

26. How do you like your comeuppance, Mayor Traitor?

Or, should I say, Former Mayor Traitor.

[lancdem]

9. What was Kelly's rationale for endorsing Bush?

He deserves to have his ass handed to him.

[second edition]

10. He got what he deserved. He should have backed Kerry! n/t

[mzmolly]

11. Saint Paul is NOT a place to endorse Mr. Bush.

:evilgrin: Good riddance Mr. Kelly!

[Radio-Active]

12. No relation to Norm Coleman, I hope?

[mzmolly]

13. NO relation.

:hi:

[Lifelong Protester]

14. born and raised there...

I could not be more pleased than to see that jackass get his kicked. St. Paul is so blue it is practically indigo (if that is darker) and endorsing Bush was a political death wish. Norm Coleman turnedcoat and got the hell out of Dodge.

He's next to go. Slimebag.

[Erika]

15. Democrats supporting the W should be fired

Good for St.Paul!

[Mend]

16. tonight is awesome, not only to have Democrats win but DINOs

losing. Hopefully the beginning of party loyalty to us.

[countmyvote4real]

19. Great news.

I hope faux Democratic supporters of the bankruptcy bill, CAFTA, MediCare reform will see the handwriting on the wall. That includes those that still will not admit that the US was wrong to invade Iraq.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

23. Goodbye to 50% of the Democratic Party, then.

It's a start.

[TankLV]

28. Yes! DINOs Beware!

Your time is up!

Glad to see a return of the party to the Democratic Wing!

[wellst0nev0ter]

18. Serves Him Right For Being A Dumbass

St. Paul outright rejected Norm Coleman when he ran for governor in 1998 as a turncoat AND when he ran for Senator in 2002. If he couldn't pick up six years worth of clues before endorsing the chimp, he deserves to be sent to pasture.

[dpbrown]

20. Throw in your lot with the Mayberry Machiavellians and see what you get

Dumbass Kakistocrat.

[Mike_The_Computer]

21. Buh-bye now, Mr. Kelly. Buh-bye.

Your disservices will no longer be required.

[grannylib]

22. Are the results final? I am well south of the Twin Cities but was really

hoping that suck-up to the Imbecile would go down in defeat...

[AndyTiedye]

24. Replacing a Boll Weevil With a Real Democrat!

Real Democrats don't endorse, support, or otherwise facilitate Bush**.

[wisteria]

25. Good news! Kerry's been vindicated! n/t

[TankLV]

27. HA HA! Take that repukes!

I smell blood in the water!

WE WANT MORE!

[Judi Lynn]

29. Kick!

[ProSense]

30. Another opportunist bites the dust. n/t

[myrna minx]

31. We're coming for YOU Norm Coleman !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[brentspeak]

32. The shame is, Kelly did a good job as mayor

Why Kelly supported Bush over Kerry is anyone's guess. What a complete moron. Kelly's job performance rating would easily have won him reelection. I hope Coleman can do as good a job as Kelly did in terms of actually running St.Paul.

[anotherdrew]

33. he's a DINO. the new guy can do just as well or better.

"the mayor sought to paint Coleman as a tax-raiser beholden to public employee unions."

- this isn't how a democrat should run against another dem.

watch Kelly switch parties now...

[northernsoul]

35. uh, do you live in St. Paul?

Remember this June when we had to call the Minneapolis fire department over because the SPFD was so short-staffed they couldn't fight two three-alarmers at once?

I don't call a marked increase in violent crime, a firehouse closure, and parks and libraries surviving by the skin of their teeth to be good leadership. Kelly was a Quisling of the worst order, sucking up Gov. Timmy and The Brooklyn Teeth, hoping they'd cut him a break. Good riddance to bad rubbish!

:kick:

[Viking12]

34. This graphic on the St. Paul Firefighter's Union website says it all

http://www.iafflocal21.org/pics/trumpster.bmp