Jeanne Schnitzen wrote:
I would pratice spelling Elizabeth Dickerson, and hope she didn't mind.
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
voting for anyone who supported GSE in any way shape or form will not happen for me, and since the only untainted canidate is Raphael Ortega, if that name is not on the ballot I'm gonna write some one elese name on the blank, even if its micky mouse, or donanld duck.
Arno A. Karner
West &th st. < 300 ft. NNW of GSE (wondering who bought the brown field accross the street)
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