Congratulations to Wichita’s new mayor, Carl Brewer (in photo), who defeated incumbent Carlos Mayans 61 percent to 37 percent. Wichita City Council winners were Sue Schlapp, Paul Gray and Jeff Longwell. Now Brewer and the Council members must show that they can work together to move Wichita forward.
The tightest Wichita race — and I mean tight — was for the at-large position on the Wichita school board. Incumbent Kevass Harding is ahead of Karl Peterjohn by only 41 votes (out of 36,013 cast) with 46 write-in votes yet to be counted.
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You da man, Philip.
The Harding/Peterjohn race will be counted, recounted, and re-re-counted. Will be interesting to see what sort of accusations of “voter fraud” get thrown around by the local GOP and Pachyderm clubbies.
Keep Peterjohn outta there: the day of the privatizers has passed.
As for the rest, Jeff Davis TROUNCED Cindy Duckett. Eight-point spread in the Bishop/Schlapp race; I’ll be waiting for the rematch in four years.
And then, of course, congratulations to Mayor-Elect Brewer. Helluva victory, that. Can you say “mandate?”
Mayor Brewer, if CF2K may use the MOST overused phrase of 2004, where do you intend to spend that “political capital?”
I live in the country, near Goddard. I got to vote for two people, they both won.
I hope your candidate won!
As far as the Wichita Mayor race goes, I’m glad Brewer won! I didn’t know much about him, thought he was doing pretty good as City Manager.
I do know enough about Mayans to celebrate his loss! He was a crappy state representative.
Hank
I think what is scariest, is that the Peterjohn vote was so close.
If anything he should have been so soundly defeated as Philllllll Kline.
Hmmm, I wonder…if that one poster who always was talking about privatization…
But we’ve also got Karl posting here.
Karl, I’ve been meaning to ask.. do you and Meadowlark do lunch?
Hopefully Brewer is a Democrat!
Have to give it to Mayans he was gracious in defeat, very unlike Phil Kline. Carlos took it like a man.
Hank –Brewer was city council.Kolb is city manager.
Peterjohn did a good job on opposing the downtown arena, he made everybody aware of the tax rules when it was being purposed.
I knew that! Just had a brain fart!
Since I don’t vote in Wichita I don’t pay as much attention as I should.
Thanks,
Hank
Yup. Except for Elizabeth Bishop, things went pretty well for the pragmatists tonight.
Duckett was crushed. Peterjohn narrowly defeated–thank goodness my wife and I took the time to vote AGAINST him, and Brewer showed that the primary results were no fluke.
Schlapp has to be thinking that next election cycle might be a good time to “spend more time with the family.”
You mean I agree with Peterjohn on something? The arena.
I’m afraid his motives are far from the same as mine however- his is all about the money. Protecting his pockets.
And if anyone says something about me not being from Wichita, it doesn’t matter. It affects all of Kansas for when we do come to Wichita.
Yeah, good point, P_Mom.
I’m surprised that Peterjohn opposed the arena, since his corporate masters were all for it . . .
For those posters speculating about Sue Schlapp’s next city council race (that’s CF2K and CapnAmerica, for those keeping score): there can’t be another in four years, as she will be precluded from running by term limits.
Karl peterjohn = http://www.kansastaxpayers.com/index.html
whats ur point wiseman?
Despite beating Mayans, Brewer will bear the full brunt of Carlos Mayans’ legacy…real Wichitans care about city government again.They’re going to watch Brewer and this council like a hawk…and when they see the folks on the 13th floor continuing to run amok, they’re going to demand a change in the structure of city government that requires accountability on the part of elected officials.Two predictions:–If I’m Sharon Fearey, I wouldn’t THINK of endorsing someone to replace me. It will be a bigger kiss of death than when Bob Knight endorsed Bill Warren… I guarantee it.–Either the mayoral election of 2011 will be to elect the first mayor under a new strong mayor form of governmen, or Brewer will be the last directly elected mayor of Wichita, because we will go back to electing a council member-at-large and rotate the mayor’s chair.
Living in district and having dealt with Sue Schlapp several times, I can tell you she is a good representative for our district.
Glad she won. Didn’t much care about the other races. To me the mayor post is an unnessecary post. Either it or city manager should go. It is redundant.
Surprised that Peterjohn race was so close. He is a low tax advocate and lots of people know him for that.
Meant to say district 2.
Brewer is gonna land flat when he starts ignoring the GOBN. leadership style of brewer consists of what do you think we should do phrases. brewers gonna be treated like a chew toy as mayor. he’ll beg to get out of politics.
Brewer won as the “I am not Mayans” candidate. Can he do more than that? I hope so.
Duckett going down was … how should I say this?… I guess I won’t.
It was amazing that the Peterjohn v. Harding race was so unbelievably close.
Good night all…
Well, the Good Ol Boy network wins again…
Back to the years of inside jobs, backdoor deals and closed meetings…
I have seen a lot of comments about the “Good Old Boys Network” and yet have never seen one shred of proof of the existence or harm of such a thing.
It is easy to make claims and accusations, but where is the proof of anything? Does such a “network” truly exist? Can anyone prove anything? Further, even if it does, can anyone show any concrete proof of “backdoor deals”?
What defines a ‘backdoor deal’? And, further, should these really happen, where is the inherent harm?
It seems like the conspiracy theorists believe there is a cabal of power brokers “running” things in this city and the people living here are absolutely powerless to stop this all powerful, all knowing “GOBN”.
Do they fly black helicopters and eavesdrop on pillow talk as well?
Carlos put me in a bit of a quandry in the election. On the one hand, I tended to support him because he is not one of the GOBN. However, he sent me two mailers focusing on his being a Republican and Brewer being a Democrat. His message was that I should vote Republican and therefore for him BECAUSE he is a Republican. Problem is, I am NOT a die-hard Republican. So, I ended up writing in.
Brewer should have the mandate and connections to get his proposals into place. Let’s hope he uses that political capital wisely. Our city still has deep devisions.
Dont ya just love the studied nonchalance of the true believers like germie? She is ALWAYS carping about the schools, and it looks like all three candidates who pledged to wreck the public schools were defeated.
But germie says it’s no big deal. She didnt really care anyway.
Riiiiigggghhhht!
Why didnt CKD give the congregation more “motivation” last Sunday? heheheheheheheheheeh
“Back to the years of inside jobs, backdoor deals and closed meetings…”
yeah, right. Like that ever changed. Somebody hasn’t been paying attention.
See if you get any help from me with the next serial killer.
raptor:Come by my office some Tuesday or Wednesday afternoon. I have a shining example (Dion Lefler at the Eagle has seen this).
The Crowson editorial cartoon (Mayans has been put into a trash cart) was cheap and rude. I didn’t care who won, but Mayans is a good man and doesn’t deserve that kind of treatment.
I agree, I thought it was cruel.