We won, I want to thank everyone for all their help. Tonight is a good night to celebrate but there is a lot of work for us to do and that starts tomorrow. With Commissioner Elect Duff winning tonight his Council seat will come open. The Council will determine how to fill the open seat in January. The last such position was filled by appointing the 3rd place Council candidate. Here are the results:
***Mayor's Race***
Wimmer 1432---71%
Larson 573----29%
***Council Race***
Kolb 899------31%
Kennedy 744--26%
Lorinser 693--24%
Rask 573------20%
***Commissioner Race***
Duff 1964-----54%
Genin 1648---46%
21 comments:
Alright George! Let's get this ball rolling some more!!
Alright, time to keep progressing this city forward!!!!
Congratulations George! You've MORE than earned your rightful place as Mayor!
Boo! Isanti needs sue
Sue Who????.............. Congrat's George, Keep doin' what you do!!!!
CONGRATULATIONS, MAYOR,
GLAD ISANTI VOTERS ACKNOWLEDGE GOOD LEADERSHIP.
JILL RELLER'S MOM
Good job! I'm happy to see that Isanti said yes to responsible government and no to corruption.
Isn't Great? People know what is acceptable in politics and what is right for our city and county. I couldn't be more proud to live in a spectacular city!!!!
way to go George! This is good for Isanti!
Awesome job George!! You deserve it- and congrats!
I am so glad you won. I knew you would. Molly thinks you are great.
Keep up the GOOD work, Little Brother!
I hope the city has a knowledge on the laws of having signs and propaganda by the voting location now. When I ran for city council the city hall staff(clerk) pulled my campaign signs that a supporter had in their yard accross the street from city hall. They told me it was within 100 ft. of the entrance to the property of the city hall, not the front door. What does the actual law state? What ever it is I hope the city hall staff gets it right from now on and enforces it equally.
Yes, the laws regarding campaign signs must be followed. According to Gail's people...they were within the legal limits in regards to the space the vehicle took up ALL DAY! But, again, one must not just make a decision based on what is LEAGAL, but what is RIGHT! Sometimes, they are not the same thing. There is much grey in our decision making process, parking the vehicle with a campaign sign on the back by the voting area in the was a grey choice. In my opinion a wrong, self centered choice. I am glad she was not elected because I would be concernced in regards to her other self centered motivations. I am happy to see that many people agree on this issue.
Let us contrast parking a signed vehicle by the polling location with her opponents decision to claim the accomplishments of others as his own. Taking credit for the Mayor's Great Yard Award when he had nothing to do with it. Or taking credit for the community center rehab when it was the business community that handled all aspects of the project and again, he had nothing to do with it. Or taking credit for Evercat fuels when he had nothing to do with it. I am sure that if a person dug deeper that one could find a few more whoppers on his list of accomplishments. I am somewhat surprised that he did not lay claim to painting the mural! I guess that I would prefer a questionable error in judgement of the parking spot to someone who blatantly lies about his accomplishments just to get elected. So if you want to discuss one's decisions in black, white and grey and what is right, where would you put blatant lying. I would consider these acts to be self-serving and I am very concerned about his future self-serving motivations. I am pretty sure that we just elected another typical lying politician.
In regards to whom gets credit for what project, I would only hope that the city staff including the council and the mayor work as a team. Taking credit for failures together and for successes together. I belive that they are a strong team and able to do both.
That is a nice sentiment but it is not true. The agenda we followed was put forward and some votes were 3-2 and some were 5-0. Mr. Duff and Mr. Kolb supported my agenda and what they campaigned for in 2006. Duff and Kolb knew what was the right thing to do.
I could put forward an agenda but if no one voted for it nothing gets done. The idea that the entire Council deserves equal credit or blame for past decisions is not accurate. If it were then election do not matter.
There were terrible decisions that were made from 2000 to 2006 that have left terrible devastation that we are fixing. Mr. Kennedy, who was elected back to the Council, and I voted against many of these terrible decisions from the past Mayor and CMs Larson and Johnson.
In 2007 the entire budget and tax cut plan for our future was fought by CMs Larson and Johnson.
Elections matter and so do the decisions that elected leaders make. I do not think the former City leadership meant ill intent, they were just wrong.
A statement made in the last campaign that the best decisions were made with the information provided. In 2005 and 2006 Mr. Kennedy and I saw the same information and came up with completely different judgments.
Elections matter - decisions elected leaders matter -
Why don't we just let this go? What is done, is done. Learn the lesson and move on. Focus on what is to come now and not what was. Please!
I agree we need to move forward but we can not allow revisionist history to root itself and blur the past.
We have a great deal of work to do moving forward.
Good job George. Glad you’re still at the helm of our great city. This argument about the vehicle parked at City Hall is the reason why we need the leadership we have now in Isanti. It goes to show how some of the old school mentality that has plagued our city is still in force today. The better candidate won. Alan's record speaks for itself. It's time we move on and start governing our city and county and moving it forward to a better tomorrow. George keep up the good work and continue to make the citizens of Isanti proud!
Everyone knows its George's ideas. Good to see an honest guy like Kennedy back on the council.
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