Not Just Great Falls
Apparently the newcomers to the city commission in Kalispell are also of the tax- and regulation-averse flavor, with incumbents losing badly. (The eight-year mayor Pam Kennedy lost 37-63!)
Tammi Fisher sounds like an interesting new mayor — and only 33! That’s quite impressive. She, like Great Falls mayor-elect Mike Winters & commissioner-elect Fred Burow, complained about the transparency of City Hall’s business, as well as some misadventures in the budget.
Strange that even in a low-turnout election (31 percent vs. Great Falls’ 53 percent) voters would break so dramatically against the incumbents.
Not that I have researched the issue, but I think people are simply growing tired of government shenanigans. Will it last? Who knows, right? Let’s hope so.
I love the smell of backlash in the morning.
Not in Missoula!
Wonder how long before that bastion of Progressive politics collapses under its own weight?
Yeah, too bad Mizzo isn’t surrounded by a crumbling sea wall in the direct path of a hurricane.
“complained about the transparency of City Hall’s business, as well as some misadventures in the budget”. Why is it that anytime someone pobints out something is wrong with the city government he or she is identified as “complaining”? I do not think they were complaining; I believe they were making citizens aware of the misdeeds of the current bunch of monkeys we have in our city government.
I like this quote: “’Mayors across the United States have been losing this year and it seems as though many have been blamed for the national economy,’ [losing incumbent Mayor] Kennedy said.”
It’s never anything they’ve done, it’s always that they’re being blamed for someone else’s screwups!
I think Pam was the past president of the League of Cities & Towns.
She seemed like a nice person. I think it was the new President who said he hoped all in the room would be reelected at the recent convention here in Great Falls.
I think that more people should pay attention at the local level as many bad ideas start there. The League has a $500,000 war chest to lobby in Helena.
The idea to let cities have Electric Utilities started with them. They promoted the idea to buy NW Energy.
Well, let’s hope Commissioner Bronson’s position in the League will help us, considering how the League was pushing his candicacy?
oh no, Far right Kalispell got a little far righter.