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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]Robert White was able to defeat Vincent Orange and David Garber. Today's election was a near total wipe-out for Team Green with only Brandon Todd surviving. The Council will be significantly reshaped with two former Racine employees (both named White) joining the Council and the return of Vincent Gray.

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Where do you Jeff, and others think, the repudiation of Team Green and the Mayor is coming from? The insider deals, DC General closure or underlying economic issues? I'm also a bit surprised at the Clinton-Sanders margin, even as a longtime Hillary supporter in DC.[/quote]

Both Orange and Alexander are relative newcomers to Team Green. I would have put both in the Vincent Gray orbit not that long ago. Especially Alexander who was a protege of Gray's. But, political expediency led Orange and Alexander to sidle up to Bowser and her machine. Gray has always been popular in Ward 7 and there are many -- especially in that part of town -- who feel that he got a raw deal from the USAO. So, there is a bit of getting back at the system going on. Orange is more of a surprise. He has been vulnerable the last several elections, but been saved by his opponents splitting the vote. White was lucky that only Garber joined the race, and then he completely collapsed. Orange could easily have been beaten the same way in the last two elections if the third place candidate had taken a few less votes. Therefore, you could argue -- and Bowser's people probably will argue -- that neither of these losses really had anything to do with an anti-Bowser wave and that neither candidate was really a Team Green member anyway. May is a different story. She is part and parcel of Team Green. But, White (the other one) also benefited from a fairly united opposition, his own popularity, and -- I assume -- resentment of Bowser and her machine.

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