NA council: 1st district's Coffey alone in hermetic Westendia.

It's been an affair to remember, with the customarily mercurial Dan Coffey and a coquettish Jeff Gahan making goo goo eyes at each other for more than three years amid predictions that it couldn't possibly last.

But now Gahan has a primary challenger. Can David White come between the ideal power couple -- a gentle caress here, and a few more CCE demolition kickbacks there?

Right now, it's the Wizard of Westendia, alone at the starting line.

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CITY OF NEW ALBANY COUNCIL MEMBER DISTRICT 1
(Precincts New Albany 1, 21, 23)

D Dan Coffey 425 W 7th St

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But what about Coffey's former opponent, Erika the Headless Poli-Sci Pretender? She's back blogging after a 44-day hiatus, but has refrained from renewing her failed anti-Coffey jihad. Since there's whatsoever to discuss about the 1st district race unless an independent joins it or the Republicans appoint a warm (come to think of it, we shouldn't assume a pulse) body following the primary, let's rewind to May 5, 2011 and an entertaining post-mortem of the previous primary.

Meanwhile, over in the bafflingly hermetic 1st district, (Vicki/Erika) Denhart’s fundamentally overarching narcissism received a world-class and long overdue puncturing, not coincidentally illustrating the Price Three-Way Cluster F***/Theorem in reverse, and ensuring Dan Coffey’s entirely unmerited victory over Denhart and the luckless Theresa Timberlake, the latter again losing by only a handful of votes.

Based solely on Denhart’s previous recorded claim (made to the newspaper) to have spent $1,200 on yard signs, it cost the taxpayers’ purportedly Hillaryesque savior fully $8.16 for each of her paltry 147 votes.

Had I spent at the same rate, my 1,341 votes would have cost just shy of $11,000, and yet I spent less for them than the cost of steak, eggs and the build-your-own Bloody Mary bar on Sunday afternoon at Bank Street Brewhouse.

Denhart and I both lost. C’est la vie … although that’s French, not Italian. Gucci … Chianti … Rocco, and all that.

Someone?

Anyone?

Do you live in District 1, and would you like to contest this seat in November as an independent candidate?

Let me know, because we have much to discuss.

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