Bully billionaire Bloomberg's bad day in Gainesville, Tea Party supported candidate beats Bloomberg backed hack for Mayor

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4/16/13, "Huge Upset in Gainesville, FL as Tea Party Candidate Wins Mayoral Race," D. Heine, Breitbart

"Former two-term City Commissioner and tea party favorite, Ed Braddy unseated incumbent Craig Lowe in Tuesday's runoff for Gainesville mayor. 

GatorSports reports:

"With all 35 precincts reporting, Braddy had 7,258 votes (55 percent) to Lowe's 6,007 (45 percent). 

Braddy entered Tuesday's runoff having garnered the most votes in the March 19 mayoral election. Braddy received 4,649 votes, or about 38 percent of the vote, while Lowe received 4,418 votes, or about 37 percent of the vote."
 
Lowe, a member of Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns group, made the news, two days after last month's election when he was charged with a DUI.

"MAIG member and Gainsville, FL Democrat Mayor Craig Lowe was arrested on charges of driving under the influence and property damage after police found him asleep in his car at the scene of a crash.

Police said Lowe appeared intoxicated and his Honda Civic was badly damaged, according to WKMG in Orlando....

Lowe was one of 30 mayors featured in a recent ad released by Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a gun-restriction lobbying group led by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg."

Lowe's campaign had out fundraised Braddy's campaign, receiving 163 contributions totaling $34,235 to Braddy's 225 contributions totaling $31,314."

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4/16/13, "Braddy unseats Lowe by comfortable margin," Gatorsports.com, Christopher Curry

"On Tuesday, former two-term City Commissioner Ed Braddy unseated incumbent Mayor Craig Lowe by a comfortable margin.

Come May, the City Commission will have a new leader who opposes the current commission majority's direction on the biomass contract, on transportation issues and on economic development.

In a city where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by a margin of more than two to one, the Republican Braddy defeated the Democrat Lowe by almost 10 percent of the vote. With all 35 precincts reporting, Braddy had 7,258 votes (55 percent) to Lowe's 6,007 (45 percent)....

"Our campaign, the entire thing, was the building of a coalition where people of many diverse backgrounds could come together with a common cause," Braddy said. "I intend to lead the same way. The burden is on the other commissioners who have already publicly declared that they are not open to other points of view. It seems to me what the people of Gainesville have said very firmly is that on these difficult issues we have, they want multiple viewpoints brought to bear so that we can actually do the work of the people.""...

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