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

[DonViejo]

BRAD REED
08 NOV 2017 AT 07:39 ET

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.

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[octoberlib]

1. Karma never felt so good. Good riddance.

[NastyRiffraff]

17. Not to mention schadenfreude

Good riddance indeed. The Democratic Party doesn't need people like him.

[MineralMan]

2. Comeuppance delivered!

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Oh yes!!!!!

Karma my friend.

[Cirque du So-What]

3. Good news indeed

Brook Park is most assuredly a blue-collar town, and this qualifies as repudiation of tRump.

[pstokely]

10. guess it's not a bigot town like Johnstown PA

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/08/donald-trump-johnstown-pennsylvania-supporters-215800

[Cirque du So-What]

14. I actually lived in Johnstown for a couple of years

I found it to be an odd, insular community with more than a dash of racism in its DNA.

[angrychair]

19. Wow!

If an alien race came to Earth and their only exposure to humanity was these people, I would perfectly understand why they would want to destroy the Earth to make way for an interstellar superhighway.

These people are the most backwards, ignorant and racist collection of assholes I’ve ever seen.

I don’t see a single redeeming quality in the bunch.

Horrible and depressing people. They deserve their lot and their life together. Fuck ‘em.

[aggiesal]

23. Reading the whole article, ...

These people live in the Faux News bubble with RW Radio blaring from
their pickup trucks.

If you're unionized and still voting for Cheetolini, there's a problem
and I wouldn't know where to begin to fix it.

Also, they have no problem accepting money from the Federal Gov't,
when Murtha was shoveling pork in their direction, but we can't have
Obamacare, and at least Cheetolini doesn't play as much golf as
Obama did!

After being corrected, the interviewee could not believe it.

WOW!

[CatMor]

5. He's not too swift....

trump represents White Collar rich people.

[struggle4progress]

6. "Watch this! Here: hold my beer!"

[Happyhippychick]

7. Bye bye

Asshole

[Madam45for2923]

8. Maybe he will get hired by the Dumps' misadministration as top genius!

[Madam45for2923]

9. LAST night lady KARMA got drunk and had a big PARTY! Karma sure is a b*tch.

[fierywoman]

11. Last night keeps getting better and better!

[BootinUp]

12. It was a historic night. Nt

[Delphinus]

24. I wonder ...

since you say that, is there any one place that has all the wins and losses compiled?

[Blue_Tires]

13. Asshole...

When will folks learn getting in bed with Donnie will NEVER have a happy ending? Donnie is the anti-Midas

[dalton99a]

15. Good riddance.

[Ninga]

16. Asshole is too good of a word for this bottom feeder. Sooooooo very glad he

was booted.

Turncoat 2017 style.

[Loyd]

18. Awwwwww!

[Honeycombe8]

20. Maybe Coyne & Christie can go to the beach together, now that they have a lot of free time. nt

[sprinkleeninow]

21. You are so deserving!

"LET the door hit you in the can on your way out!" 🤣

[gratuitous]

22. I wonder what the excuse will be for Coyne?

He did everything President Trump would have wanted him to do, and he goes from winning with 49.8% of the vote in 2013 to losing his bid for re-election while getting only 37.59%, a drop of more than 12%.

Why didn't Trump's Midas Touch win through for Tom? Or is association with Trump more of a Merdas* Touch, in that Coyne's political career just turned into shit?

*French speakers familiar with the word "merde" will get the reference.