Apparently, the people of Sheboygan like Bob Ryan as their mayor.
They're very forgiving people.
From the Sheboygan Press:
Sheboygan Mayor Bob Ryan and former state Rep. Terry Van Akkeren captured the top two spots in Sheboygan’s first-ever mayoral recall primary on Tuesday.
Ryan and Van Akkeren advance to face each other in the Feb. 21 general recall election, which will be a rematch of the 2009 mayoral election, in which Ryan defeated Van Akkeren to win the office.
If Ryan wins on Feb. 21, he will continue as mayor; if Van Akkeren wins, he would be sworn into office at the March 5 Common Council meeting and serve the remaining 13 months of Ryan’s term, which ends in April 2013.
Ryan and Van Akkeren topped an eight-candidate primary field, which drew a turnout of 34.5 percent of Sheboygan’s 28,458 registered voters and caused some polling places to run out of ballots briefly in the late afternoon.
In unofficial results, Ryan finished first with 3,225 votes (33 percent), followed by Van Akkeren with 2,567 26 percent).
...Ryan’s well-documented problems with alcohol, including the fallout from a three-day drinking binge in Elkhart Lake last July, also played a major part in the recall effort. Citizens collected 4,481 valid petition signatures to force the election.
Getting signatures to force a recall election is one thing.
Succeeding in booting an official out of office is another.
1 comment:
Actually, Ryan received 33% of the vote. That means 66% of those who voted did not choose Bob as their first choice.
The big question is, of those people who did not choose Bob this round, was Bob their 2nd choice? I cannot imagine that he was.
Whether or not Sheboygan is a city filled with a majority of registered voters who are idiots is yet to be seen. We shall find out after the run-off in February.
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