Mike asks:
"Who would you vote for if Chris Coleman was successful in beating
Raphael Ortega in a Primary and the two candidates were Coleman and
Kelly? What? Are you going to stay home and not vote because you
would have to vote for someone who challenged the endorsement
process? I certainly hope not."
This is exactly the question that has plagued many of us for months, but not
because of the endorsement or lack thereof.
To be clear, I'm not working or even advocating for Ortega. But if the two
candidates end up being Coleman and Kelly, I would indeed seriously consider
not voting in that particular race. There is virtually no difference between
these two.
In their campaigning, both have seriously distorted their past, inventing new
personas for themselves. You can take issue or not with Kelly still calling
himself a Democrat (personally, I think he abdicated that long before the Bush
endorsement), but one has only to be familiar with Coleman's record on the
Council to know that he is in no way progressive. He also backed the mayor
nearly all the time.
So, given the choice between two candidates with little discernible difference?
Well, I could vote for Chris because he's slightly less mean than Randy is.
Or, given an unconscionable choice between what I think are two horrid
candidates, I may leave that part of the ballot blank.
Either way, St Paul loses.
Jeanne Schnitzen
Highland Park
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