St. Paul voters overwhelmingly backed Mayor Chris Coleman for a second term on Tuesday. The Democrat garnered support from 69 percent of voters, easily defeating challenger Eva Ng.
The three incumbent St. Paul school board members up for re-election this year have been endorsed by the St. Paul Federation of Teachers in past campaigns. But concerns about budget shortfalls, school restructurings and contract negotiations have caused the teachers’ union to withhold its support this year.
It’s election day — although you’d be hard-pressed to find much evidence of that fact.
Jubilant Democrats celebrated Barack Obama’s historic victory at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in downtown St. Paul last night. While the presidential victor’s coattails proved largely non-existent in Minnesota — with a pair of tightly contested House races falling to the GOP and the U.S. Senate race knotted in a virtual dead heat — few seemed concerned by the split verdict. The election of the first African American president in the country’s history was sufficient cause for jubilation.
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