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At 1:30 PM -0600 11/3/04, d-hill wrote:
Clearly the strongest challenger that Mayor Kelly will face will be whichever candidate wins the DFL endorsment for mayor.
ROTFL..... I love you Dennis, you make me laugh....
Now seriously when was the last DFL endorsed Mayor elected to St Paul? I think it was before my now Sophomore Daughter was born.
Lets talk about the last Ward 2 council seat election... Shall we start with a Convention that almost went to the Mayor's cronny?
How about that the DFL endorsed Candidate in Ward 2 (One of your most die hard DFL area's of St Paul) BARELY made it through the Primary and was nearly beat by the Green Party Candidate.
I worked on the Campaign for 39A Rick Hansen, you know the guy running to take the seat vacated by Pugh (you know the former Minority leader of the house)? Margin of Victory just over 2200 votes out of 21,000 cast (granted not St Paul, but very telling due to it's closeness to St Paul).
The DFL is screwed up big time, if it expects to win the mayors office, they need to get their ducks in order. They can start with the manner in which they maintain their databases, then move on to the support they give their endorsed candidates, they can finish off by utilizing the internet to a greater degree than they do now.
Finally the City could learn alot from the National Party and how they went into a convention UNITED, unlike St Paul where no one knows who will be endorsed till the convention and by then everyone hates each other so much they won't help the endorsed candidate and in most instances even continue to Run against them.
The DFL is not the machine it would like to think it once was.
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