Ohio mayor who left Dem Party to back Trump goes down in humiliating electoral defeat

[Jim Dandy]

A mayor in Ohio who left the Democratic Party last year to endorse Donald Trump for president has gone down in defeat.

Tom Coyne, who was elected as mayor of Brook Park in 2013, lost his reelection bid on Tuesday night when he was defeated by independent candidate Michael Gammella.

As the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports, Coyne lost by more than five percentage points to Gammella, a former city council president and United Auto Workers representative.

Coyne made headlines in 2016 when he ditched the Democratic Party to back Trump’s candidacy. He has so far shown no remorse for his decision this year, and he even appeared at an October fundraiser in Cleveland alongside Donald Trump Jr.

In a recent interview with the Plain Dealer, Coyne said that Trump had done a lot to transform the GOP into a party representing blue-collar white people, which he claimed were the people he was trying to represent as mayor.

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/ohio-mayor-who-left-dem-party-to-back-trump-goes-down-in-humiliating-electoral-defeat/

[Kentonio]

1. I love when good things happen!

[dalton99a]

2. Sweet.

[brewens]

3. That kind of reminds me of the Russian troops that deserted to the German side at Stalingrad.

Their own leaders had neglected to tell them that the Germans had been surrounded. Oops! Maybe last night may prevent any deserters if anyone was thinking about it?

[n2doc]

4. Hey Tom! Trump HATES losers! n/t

[workinclasszero]

5. What goes around, comes around

[pbmus]

6. +++++1111111111111

[BigmanPigman]

9. I thought of Karma too!

[Kleveland]

7. A wonderful victory for the Cleveland area!

Happy happy, joy joy.

There is some serious industry in that area, Ford plant etc.

They recently had a fundraiser dinner at a West Side restaurant for that jerk, and D Trump Jr. was supposed to speak.

It made me ill to think he was that near me... even being 12 miles away.

[jalan48]

8. Interesting that the Independent beat both the Republican and Democrat in this race.