On April 27, we ran an article entitled, "Slow Council Campaign About to Heat Up."  Up until that point, the council election had draw a handful of stories from the Vanguard and not much attention.  From April 27 until today, about a month and a half period of time, the Vanguard has published 43 articles, commentaries, and other stories about the Davis City Council election.

We extensively covered every single candidate's forum.  We have had extensive analysis of the election after the fact.  That does not even include numerous analyses that we did about issues that were vital to the campaign.  I do not want to harp on this point for too long, but the Davis Enterprise continues to disappoint with regards to covering local issues.

It definitely caught my eye when Bob Dunning wrote on Friday, that it was time to pity the town's "regressives."  In some ways, I suppose one could in fact suggest that this might mark the end of progressive era in Davis.  But I would argue if that were the case, then the progressives have won.

Writes Bob Dunning: "STUCK IN LEFT FIELD - it's really time to pity the town's regressives - first they were unable to find anyone to oppose a completely vulnerable Don Saylor for county supervisor, then in the council race they finally decided to throw their 'weight' behind a McCain supporter who had no problem taking campaign donations from - you'd better sit down - developers - generally, taking money from a developer will earn eternal damnation from these folks, but not this time - turns out their new enemy is not developers, but firefighters - another sure sign The End is near - "

On Election Night, it was 9:30 pm, we still had a long way to go, but one thing that was very very obvious, Joe Krovoza would at the very least for certain be elected to the City Council and barring a huge surprise, finish first and be elected as Mayor Pro Tem.  And so in the middle of his living room he gave a brief political speech, thanking his supporters and introducing his team.

One thing that he mentioned in his speech was how they did it, and the biggest surprise of all is that despite finishing first, despite spending the most money in the campaign, he did not send out a single mailer.  Instead they ran a very grassroots oriented campaign, organizing around neighborhoods and having neighbors talk to neighbors.