2025 Omaha Mayoral election

[PWL73316]

I'm surprised she lost by so much but Ewing was a much stronger candidate than previous opponents and both were well-qualified. If competence was your overriding concern, I could see there being a significant number of Stothert-Stothert-Stothert-Ewing voters or Stothert-Stothert-Stothert-Stayed Home.

[HskrFanMike]

I am not buying the broke the tax promise (especially the sticky restaurant tax as you put it). She's literally won 2 re-election campaigns since then.....

I think many people have shrugged off the restaurant tax and moved on. They still remember it, thought.

But when she broke the streetcar vote promise, that resurrected that resentment. And while she claims that promise was only for a tax levy, it wasn't presented that way at the time.
https://www.ketv.com/article/mayor-stot ... ar/9251392

Stothert said Saturday voters should decide the streetcar's future, hoping to put it on the November 2018 ballot.

"I've always wanted the people to be the final decision," the mayor said. "That's nothing different."

https://omaha.com/news/state_and_region ... de766.html

Both candidates have expressed strong support for building a streetcar line between downtown and the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

But after anti-streetcar candidate Taylor Royal finished with 11 percent in the primary election last week, both candidates have walked back their support.

Mello said the city should “slam on the brakes” on the project and seek more input.

Stothert replied that nothing has been decided. And, she said, the voters would have the final say — she said if re-elected, she would push to have any streetcar proposal go to a vote. In a press release last week, her campaign said voters would be asked to approve “up to” $30 million in tax dollars for the project.

[Big E]

It's such a non issue for the most part of society and misguided rage bate.

Lol getting caught up on this thread late.

The difference between "rage bait" and "rage-bate" is so hilariously signficant I don't even know wher to go with this.