Did The South Rise Again in Radnor?

I swear I thought I was seeing things this morning when I tapped into Main Line Suburban Life this morning. Oh to be a fly on the wall in Mimi Auchincloss's house...too funny....her sign blitzes, nasty campaign literature, her candidates....All "Gone With The Wind"....Yes, it's true the only victories the Radnor Republicans had in the commissioner races were where the candidates were unopposed.

John Nagle and Elaine Paul Schaeffer won.

For supposedly the first time since around the Civil War, Radnor Township is in Democrat control. Now mind you, I don't want them to go crazy now. I am not looking for stimulus money so people in Radnor can all go buy a Land Rover in Wayne. But a little harmony would be nice. However, I also don't mean Kum-Bay-Ya with Bill Spingler as Board of Commissioners President. Because that would be a literal Nightmare on Elm Street.

I'm not sure about that Elaine Paul Schaeffer to be honest, am not sure if she is good or bad, BUT anything and anyone after Enrique Hervada will have to be some sort of improvement. BUT, John Nagle is a much better deal then Ernie Shapiro would have been. Ernie just didn't know enough about any one issue, and I think he would have maybe done better if he had just acknowledged that from the start, but as we have come to expect, he was just another Charlie McCarthy doll in Radnor Republican politics. He got hosed in the election and he probably got used by the Republican Party in Radnor. Now perhaps Mimi will tart him up a bit to run again against John Nagle after he fills the last couple years of La Paolino's term, who knows. But maybe now after how many years of appointed commissioner control they might get a little representation? (I keep wondering what reporter will call Lisa for her reaction --- that ought to be really amusing)

So we'll see what change brings to Radnor. Hopefully it's more then has come to Washington because honestly? I'm thinking I wasted that vote except for the fact that it kept Sarah Palin away for the time being.

I am glad this election is over. Now maybe somebody can hire a township manager around here, ok?

Main Line Suburban Life
Board of Commissioners will have Democratic majority
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
By Sam Strike

For the first time in a century Radnor Township’s Board of Commissioners will have a Democratic majority after the party’s candidates won two contested elections for seats on the seven-member board.

John Nagle and Elaine Paul Schaefer were successful in their bids to win the township’s 5th and 4th Ward seats respectively.

It was Nagle’s fourth campaign for the post; he beat Republican Ernie Shapiro to fill two years of the term left vacated by former commissioner Lisa Paolino, who resigned this summer.

According to unofficial results from Delaware County, Nagle garnered 369 votes to Shapiro’s 295 votes.

Schaefer was successful in her second attempt at the seat, this time against Republican contender Harriette Waldron. Two-term commissioner Enrique Hervada did not seek re-election this year.

According to unofficial results from Delaware County, Schaefer garnered 598 votes to Waldron’s 463 votes.

After the results came in, Schaefer said she felt “reaffirmed” and that the votes “reflect how astute Radnor voters are.”

It is kind of funny how the Radnor Democrat Party Leadership is crowing considering they never really seemed to wholeheartedly support Nagle and Schaeffer before, isn't it?