Politics & Government

Registered Republican Votes Blake

'You have to look at the individual,' he says in voting against his party.

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Pat Eisenman is a registered Republican who voted for Democrat Ben Blake in today’s municipal election.

“You have to look at the individual,” not the party, he said outside the Foran High School Fourth District polling station.

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Eisenman said he commends the mayor for his efforts to renegotiate the city’s “ridiculous costs with health care.”

Back in September, Blake told us that through renegotiating, the city was able to cut nearly $2 million from annual health insurance costs.

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As for his own party’s mayoral candidate, Peter Spalthoff, Eisenman said: “I don’t know that much about him.”

He added that an incumbent deserves another term if he is doing a good job and the alternative does not seem an obvious improvement.


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