What are The Odds?
The election here in Minnesota is filled with odds and surprises. Not only that the incumbent senator Norm Coleman is neck to neck with Al Franken and is due for a recount sometime in the middle of November; but a toss coin decides who’s goign to be the Mayor of a tiny northwestern Minnesota town of Goodridge.
Incumbent Bob Homme and former Mayor Dave Brown each got 22 votes. Instead of finding the ballots and recounting the 44 votes, they agreed to decide the winner with a coin toss.
It already was a strange race in Goodridge — population 98 — with no one filing to run for mayor. Brown and Homme were both write-ins.
To break the tie, each tossed his own coin. If it was even, meaning two heads or two tails, Homme would win the two-year term. If it was odd, meaning a head and a tail, Brown would win.
It was a head and a tail. Brown won.
This is weird Jacs… a toss coin to know who will run the place hehehe
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Jacy Reply:
November 9th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
it is odd Haze no? it is just a little town of 98 population and no one filed for mayoral candidacy this time. both of those are write-ins.
TS’ dad was the Mayor of Foxhome for awhile which is a little town of 135pop until he moved back to Fergus Falls.
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