Great news! Tea party candidates LOST their elections in my county today.

[proud2BlibKansan]

In an election for community college trustees, there were 6 candidates and the top 4 were the winners. The 2 who lost are tea partiers.

In a state that has been literally taken over by the tea party, this is HUGE.

Please can they finally go away??

[mucifer]

1. I'm Curious, what state you are you in?

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Kansas

It's in my user name.

[caseymoz]

14. That's important in Kansas.

[protect our future]

2. I'm doing a happy dance as I type this!!

[mucifer]

4. Congratulations!

BTW sorry I didn't read your name closely. I'm a bit tired.

[protect our future]

9. I thank you for your congratulations and

pass them along to proud2Blib!

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. I'm doing a happy dance as I read their website.

Our tea partiers are crazy.

They went to the candidate forum and asked about in-state tuition for undocumented kids. What can a community college trustee do about THAT?? It's a STATE policy. They also mention their candidate's military service. As if that matters for a college trustee??

Teh stupid. It burns.

[Starry Messenger]

5. Every bit helps.

Go Kansas. I hope it continues!

[onehandle]

7. Excellent. nt

[defacto7]

8. Great!

It always good news to hear about TPs getting the boot.

[Cha]

10. that is HUGE, p2BlK! thanks for the news

[freshwest]

11. +1

[SunSeeker]

12. K&R

[Blue Owl]

13. Ta Ta, Teabillies.

[ailsagirl]

15. Terrific!!

[Phillip McCleod]

16. we have to reinforce every small victory.

keep pressure on teh ppl we elect to move forward progressively and use our mandate.

no corruption we gotta keep 'em honest too.

these local elections are *exactly* where we as boots-on-the-ground need to be focusing.

[alp227]

17. They've screwn over our state & fed legislatures already. Education systems next? No thanks.

David Horowitz (the man behind the right wing "COLLEGES ARE LIBERAL!!!!" complaints) must be HOWLING tonight!!!

[AllyCat]

18. Good news in my town in Wisconsin too. 6 seats open, all three progressives running won

And one Walker-loving teahadist won, but one of them had to I guess.

[Rhiannon12866]

19. That's been my hope, but it's getting worse here in NY

The front page of today's newspaper speculated that the teabagger who defeated my Democratic congressman in 2010 is being considered for governor.

[Warpy]

20. Wow! Too far out there for Kansas!

Maybe folks there are starting to wake up to just how radical those people are.

Remember, these minor local offices provide the field for possible state and then national runs later.

So this is a big deal, congratulations to Kansas!

[ZombieHorde]

21. Awesome. nt

[madokie]

22. I wish some of that would spill over to us here in OK

at the moment we're over run by the teabillies.