Well I thought that Roger Reinert would win the primary on Tuesday night I was surprised how handily he won the seat. I think what we are seeing is a vote against the union being so political. We started to see in the last general election with Becky Hall doing so well. Also others getting elected like Todd Fedora. Now with this vote the same thing.
Marsh Stenersen the union backed candidate only got about 36% of the vote well Reinert got about 56% of the vote. There were also two other candidate in the race that finished well off the pace getting about 2% of the vote each.
Stenersen may have also had the kiss of death backing of the incumbent Mike Jaros.. This may have been as equally a vote against Jaros and not wanting his type of leadership at the State level. Marsh came from the same mold as did Jaros. He also stands and believes to not work with the other side much like Jaros did.
Other races of interest pit Bill Kron the 3rd district county board member against Chris Dahlberg. The 32 year incumbent got barley 50% of the vote in the primary. Well a well known candidate in Chris Dahlberg who served on the city council from 1992 to 1995 received 42% of the vote.
I think this race will be very close. As Dahlberg is running a great campaign and Kron who served for 32 years has issues facing him.
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I'm going to disagree with you on this one. Roger won because people knew him and were familiar with his record and accomplishments on the City Council. This wasn't a vote against AFSCME or unions; it was a vote in favor of the well-known and well-liked candidate over the unknown candidate.
Nick I agree with you in part. He won so easy I think because both of the reasons we stated.
Roger is well known and and they know were he stands. They like him for who he is. I also stand by my comments. That it was also in part against the union being so political.
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