Wow, that was one tight race. Stauber does always seem like the Comeback Kid, winning these narrow victories. He barely squeaked through last time against Timothy Bearheart and it was even an even more narrow margin of victory over Beth Olson, who ran a *great* campaign, especially considering it was her first venture and the crap the DNT threw at her.

Congratulations to Dan Hartman and Kerry Gauthier, besides my new councilor, Patrick Boyle! Whoot whoot!

C-Freak, it happens to me all the time on the DCB. They seem to think making up comments and putting other people's names on them is going to really help their preferred candidates win elections. Yeah, right. That's why their preferred candidates all lost.

my dog likes to shit in Stauber's yard.* we're in accord in that opinion. 




*yeah, i pick it up. but only because i'm nice like that.

I've gotten to know Mr. Stauber over the past few years, and while we don't agree on most things, I've found him to really want to do the right thing by Duluth. I think he's actually mellowed out over the years, I actually enjoyed talking with him a few weeks ago. Having said that, his comment in today's paper about those "radical" candidates made me laugh. He doesn't know radical.

I agree with you there, Carla, though I don't think Beth lost that many votes due to bigotry, I really think the Red Plan brought out a lot of anti-tax people who then voted for Stauber. And both Stauber supporters and Olson supporters voted secondly for Hartman, which made him the front-runner. He was the consensus candidate.

It does bother me, however, and I think it's a sad commentary on our local newspaper and local radio programs, that anonymous bloggers would post information about Beth Olson's private life all over the Internet, and that the DNT and the right-wing radio hosts would then enable this kind of misogny and homophobia by obsessing themselves on Ms. Olson's past and her previous relationships. 

I've never seen any candidate for any other public office in Duluth be subjected to this kind of inappropriate scrutiny. And it was wrong for the mainstream media to focus on it. But, then seeing how increasingly tabloid-like the DNT has become, it shouldn't come as much of a surprise.

I spent about 5 whole minutes trying to find this information somewhere on the web.  All the television sites no longer have them posted and DNT wants a few $ a month even for online access even though I'm a weekend subscriber.

I guess PDD is my new local, reliable news source.