In other election news, 10 Commandments candidate BRANDI SWINDELL loses

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Swindell

Boise City Council
MARYANNE JORDAN 22918 70.14%
BRANDI SWINDELL 9758 29.86%

Competence and a maturing political machine turned out moderate and liberal voters in Boise on Tuesday.

City Councilwoman Maryanne Jordan swamped religious activist Brandi Swindell, as voters chose centrism and experience for the grinding work of transportation planning, managing growth, shielding neighborhoods and saving open space.

Swindell tried to make the Ten Commandments our signature symbol, but Boiseans are more interested in their broader quality of life than a single stone monument....

Swindell was overwhelmed in her first campaign, with just a dozen people making calls from her Emerald Street office. She had aid from the Keep the Commandments Coalition, which helped send 26,000 grim flyers displaying a crane lifting the Ten Commandments monument from Julia Davis Park for the move to St. Michael's Cathedral. But Swindell's activism in the pro-life, anti-birth control, anti-stem cell research movements didn't sell with voters more troubled by Boise's growing pains.

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