Wednesday, April 11, 2007

by a wide margin

The big news out of Burbank is the election of my friend Anja Reinke to city council. There were four people running for two open seats. Anja and a local restaurant owner each got about 6300 votes. Anja will become one of many St. Finbar parishioners who have served on the council. She should get to take a turn as vice-mayor and then mayor eventually.

The other two candidates, who happened to be a married couple, got about 3300 votes each. Their unsuccessful campaign was endorsed by a soap opera actress whose reading skills I coincidentally featured in my blog last December. At least George Takei loves her.

Anja supports a ban on smoking in places like public parks and restaurant patios. The losing candidates gave an overly wordy answer to the same yes/no question. Maybe someday Knoxville will become more breathable for the non-smoking majority via a sales tax increase or a ban on public smoking. WATE had a town hall meeting on the topic tonight.

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2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey Frank,


I just showed this to Anja and she says thanks for the kind words. This election was clearly good winning over evil. Burbank has been saved. Talk to you soon.


Charlie Reinke

4/12/2007  
Blogger D.O.M. Dan said...

What a stellar endorsement by Patrika. So people should vote for the Berlin’s because they don’t think alike?

4/12/2007  

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