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How Rapson LostSteve Rapson had it right at first when he attributed his defeat to "backlash against Brown." In a letter to the Citizen Wednesday, he kind of backed away from that in gentlemanly fashion. Well, he was right the first time. While some may have viewed his wife's lawsuit against DAPC as separate from Steve Rapson, Counclimember, others didn't. It didn't help in any that he ignored the City Attorney's opinion that voting on a matter would be a conflict of interest so then there was the ethics violation and thousands of wasted dollars. Lastly and maybe just as important as anything else, some that I know who voted for Rapson 4 years ago didn't this time because they felt the Steve Rapson they voted for wasn't the Steve Rapson they got as a councilmember. Murray "Must be Smoking" Weed didn't run but I have no doubt he would have lost handily. Anyone associated closely with Brown was dead-meat in this election. The voters were complacent and apathetic 4 years ago and made damn sure they got to the polls to not have more of the same for 4 more years. NUK nuk's blog | login to post comments |