Why I was wrong

I have no idea why I was wrong. Yes, I correctly predicted the seven winners. But the utter collapse of the business vote is perplexing. Or is it? No, it was completely predictable. The only "biz" candidate to win had broad community support. Angie E. is known not only in the biz community and the fat cows over at Boulder Tomorrow, but by numerous other important communities, such as Sierra Club, Boulder Dems, Boulder Democratic women, etc. And as she states in the candidate, she is not really a biz candidate, she just happens to own one.

Biz canidates can't win with campaigns like Erik's. Suzy, Tom, Gordon, Polk and Jack Stoakes won because are not won trick ponies, broad community support is necessary to win. But when Biz tries to shove a candidate down our throats, they get creamed. Erik and Adam, the "other" Realtor candidates had zero broad base, and thus got stoaked.

But Erik has lowered the bar for biz candidates. At least Scott Gessler and Shelia Horton finished within a couple thousand votes of the winner. But Erik got utterly creamed, which shows that a biz candidate at least needs to mount a campaign to loose by a thousand.

Adam will not ever be able to win in this town. Phony baloney poseur candidates can be spotted a mile away and they do not win city council offices. They do win seats in the state legislature (ie., Ron Tupa) so we may see him around.

So F-you Ken Hotard, move to Broomfield where you belong. Yes, you thought since you bought Polk and Ageton that you were going to build a majority on council that would cancel the 55 foot height limit, etc., but that requires making your case, rather than trying to sneak in pro-development candidates. Citizens were pissed off by the pro-development votes of the last candidate, they were pissed that Ruzzin did nothing about pop-ups.

Macon and Lisa winning so easily this time is a strong indication of where the citizens of Boulder are on issues such as development and infill. Ken, Angie, and Susan Osborne were consensus candidates, that is both sides voted for them. But certain people voted against Lisa and Macon, yet they won a four year term. Why did people vote for these two over business types like Adam. Probably because their views are reflective of where we are as a city.

Adam and Erik and Ken Toadtard would have won easily in the east county or the burbs. But those place are failed cities for most of us, so why would we vote for them? Adam and Erik views on growth are held by the vast majority of Coloradans, so it is not exactly like we don't know what their views get us. We can look to our neighboring towns and see the failure of their policies.