A Lot Of Work Goes Into Running Unopposed Sometimes

By Kleinheider Posted on December 3, 2008 at 5:30 pm

Sean Braisted makes an important observation regarding the developing 18th Metro Council District special election race:

What I find most interesting about all this, is that when Keith Durbin ran in 2007, he didn’t have a single challenger…which just goes to show that he held quite a bit of respect from people inside the district.

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