Election Goodness
So, I'm pretty pleased with how things turned out.
Our incumbent Republican governor won, but Dems retained control of the State Senate and took over control of the State House. Out of 8 congressional districts, 2 Republican incumbents won, 1 was upset, Michele Bachmann (super right-wing religious conservative, known for hiding behind bushes spying on a gay rights rally at the capitol) unfortunately won, and the rest stayed Dem.
Amy Klobuchar became the first woman senator from Minnesota, kicking the ass of Mark Kennedy who I really wanted to see fail because Fly Girl's no-longer-friend Maestro worked for MK's campaign. Down in flames!
We passed an amendment to the Minnesota state constitution to dedicate motor vehicle sales taxes to transportation funding (it currently is divided between transportation and the general fund), with some caveats about roads/bridges vs. transit. Boo. Right idea, wrong method, and it makes it harder to balance the state budget.
As I already mentioned, IRV passed for Minneapolis city elections. Yay!
And there's a little bit of a scandal. There was a "parody" site up basically calling Tammy Lee, one of the Independent congressional candidates, a racist. Turns out the site is linked to Chris Stewart, a Minneapolis school board member. The Lee campaign sort of made it worse by accusing her Dem opponent (Keith Ellison, first Muslim in Congress, first black guy from MN) of being responsible for the site. Apparently Chris Stewart has quite a blogging history, but it hasn't been previously linked to his true identity.
And that was just here! Good job, Minnesota (except for y'all in the 6th district).
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I met Amy Klobuchar once a few year ago. She was doing door-to-door campaigning. She was very nice and seemed genuinely interested in our lives. If I still lived in Minnesota, I would have voted for her.
A guy I work with, who is generally right-leaning, took one of those quizzes where you answer questions on your views and it shows you how you match up with the candidates. It picked Amy Klobuchar for him, but he had a "thing" against her because she was standing out at the Metrodome shaking hands before some Twins playoff game and he felt she was standing in an inconvenient spot and impeding traffic.
He was mostly joking. I think.