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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Nov 8, 2017, 01:52 PM Nov 2017

Ohio mayor who left Dem Party to back Trump goes down in humiliating electoral defeat

BRAD REED
08 NOV 2017 AT 07:39 ET

A mayor in Ohio who left the Democratic Party last year to endorse Donald Trump for president has gone down in defeat.

Tom Coyne, who was elected as mayor of Brook Park in 2013, lost his reelection bid on Tuesday night when he was defeated by independent candidate Michael Gammella.

As the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports, Coyne lost by more than five percentage points to Gammella, a former city council president and United Auto Workers representative.

Coyne made headlines in 2016 when he ditched the Democratic Party to back Trump’s candidacy. He has so far shown no remorse for his decision this year, and he even appeared at an October fundraiser in Cleveland alongside Donald Trump Jr.

In a recent interview with the Plain Dealer, Coyne said that Trump had done a lot to transform the GOP into a party representing blue-collar white people, which he claimed were the people he was trying to represent as mayor.

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https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/ohio-mayor-who-left-dem-party-to-back-trump-goes-down-in-humiliating-electoral-defeat/

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Ohio mayor who left Dem Party to back Trump goes down in humiliating electoral defeat (Original Post) DonViejo Nov 2017 OP
Karma never felt so good. Good riddance. octoberlib Nov 2017 #1
Not to mention schadenfreude NastyRiffraff Nov 2017 #17
Comeuppance delivered! MineralMan Nov 2017 #2
Oh yes!!!!! Wellstone ruled Nov 2017 #4
Good news indeed Cirque du So-What Nov 2017 #3
guess it's not a bigot town like Johnstown PA pstokely Nov 2017 #10
I actually lived in Johnstown for a couple of years Cirque du So-What Nov 2017 #14
Wow! angrychair Nov 2017 #19
Reading the whole article, ... aggiesal Nov 2017 #23
He's not too swift.... CatMor Nov 2017 #5
"Watch this! Here: hold my beer!" struggle4progress Nov 2017 #6
Bye bye Happyhippychick Nov 2017 #7
Maybe he will get hired by the Dumps' misadministration as top genius! Madam45for2923 Nov 2017 #8
LAST night lady KARMA got drunk and had a big PARTY! Karma sure is a b*tch. Madam45for2923 Nov 2017 #9
Last night keeps getting better and better! fierywoman Nov 2017 #11
It was a historic night. Nt BootinUp Nov 2017 #12
I wonder ... Delphinus Nov 2017 #24
Asshole... Blue_Tires Nov 2017 #13
Good riddance. dalton99a Nov 2017 #15
Asshole is too good of a word for this bottom feeder. Sooooooo very glad he Ninga Nov 2017 #16
Awwwwww! Loyd Nov 2017 #18
Maybe Coyne & Christie can go to the beach together, now that they have a lot of free time. nt Honeycombe8 Nov 2017 #20
You are so deserving! sprinkleeninow Nov 2017 #21
I wonder what the excuse will be for Coyne? gratuitous Nov 2017 #22

Cirque du So-What

(26,031 posts)
3. Good news indeed
Wed Nov 8, 2017, 01:57 PM
Nov 2017

Brook Park is most assuredly a blue-collar town, and this qualifies as repudiation of tRump.

Cirque du So-What

(26,031 posts)
14. I actually lived in Johnstown for a couple of years
Wed Nov 8, 2017, 02:11 PM
Nov 2017

I found it to be an odd, insular community with more than a dash of racism in its DNA.

angrychair

(8,756 posts)
19. Wow!
Wed Nov 8, 2017, 04:32 PM
Nov 2017


If an alien race came to Earth and their only exposure to humanity was these people, I would perfectly understand why they would want to destroy the Earth to make way for an interstellar superhighway.

These people are the most backwards, ignorant and racist collection of assholes I’ve ever seen.

I don’t see a single redeeming quality in the bunch.

Horrible and depressing people. They deserve their lot and their life together. Fuck ‘em.

aggiesal

(8,960 posts)
23. Reading the whole article, ...
Wed Nov 8, 2017, 05:53 PM
Nov 2017

These people live in the Faux News bubble with RW Radio blaring from
their pickup trucks.

If you're unionized and still voting for Cheetolini, there's a problem
and I wouldn't know where to begin to fix it.

Also, they have no problem accepting money from the Federal Gov't,
when Murtha was shoveling pork in their direction, but we can't have
Obamacare, and at least Cheetolini doesn't play as much golf as
Obama did!

After being corrected, the interviewee could not believe it.

WOW!

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
13. Asshole...
Wed Nov 8, 2017, 02:09 PM
Nov 2017

When will folks learn getting in bed with Donnie will NEVER have a happy ending? Donnie is the anti-Midas

Ninga

(8,282 posts)
16. Asshole is too good of a word for this bottom feeder. Sooooooo very glad he
Wed Nov 8, 2017, 03:29 PM
Nov 2017

was booted.

Turncoat 2017 style.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
22. I wonder what the excuse will be for Coyne?
Wed Nov 8, 2017, 05:29 PM
Nov 2017

He did everything President Trump would have wanted him to do, and he goes from winning with 49.8% of the vote in 2013 to losing his bid for re-election while getting only 37.59%, a drop of more than 12%.

Why didn't Trump's Midas Touch win through for Tom? Or is association with Trump more of a Merdas* Touch, in that Coyne's political career just turned into shit?

*French speakers familiar with the word "merde" will get the reference.

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