We elect Republicans in our city quite often. However, we seldom elect somebody who admits to being one.
Tom Conlon was the exception, having fallen heir to Eleanor Weber as holding the only school board seat that the DFL could not take. [Greg Felice was in there too, but that situation is a bit more complicated and did not last.]
Now it has been revealed that, as part of a move to
Sooner or later we will see posters in various fora suggesting that we are closer to one-party rule locally.
Maybe so. However, I suspect that we won’t see a lot of difference. Aside from the fact that local issues are so often non-partisan [as we have been reminded before there really is not much difference between DFL and GOP pot holes] we still seem to find things on which to differ.
As for Tom Conlon: It may well be that he will be remembered for his last dissenting vote, the vote against taking Daniel Webster’s name off of a school and replacing it with Barack and Michelle Obama’s. That decision was certainly defensible even with the partisan element removed. Naming public institutions and places after living people has its problems. There are people who even now have diplomas certifying graduation from Richard Nixon High Schools.
UPDATE: [5/23/09] Yesterday's DPP carried a side bar which noted the times and place of Tom Conlon farewells and suggested a memory book is being compiled.and that people with memories should send them to an Edina address. Somehow that Edina address seems to be saying a lot.
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