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CAT Tracks for April 9, 2009 TILL DEATH DO US PART

Rest if you must, but you cannot quit.

Was going to be dramatic and name this post "OBITUARY - RON NEWELL - PART II". However, the story below clearly indicates that drama has its limits.

So, as a disappointed follow-up to my own hopeful query of yesterday...

I'll see you guys at tonight's negotiations session!

However, don't be surprise if I don't have a lot to say...

Man who died re-elected mayor of Mo. town

Associated Press - April 7, 2009 10:54 PM ET

WINFIELD, Mo. (AP) - Harry Stonebraker has been re-elected mayor of the small northeastern Missouri town of Winfield - about a month after his death.

Ballots had already been printed when Stonebraker died of a heart attack at age 69 on March 11. He won easily on Tuesday with 206 votes. Bernie Panther got the other 23 votes.

The election recalled Missouri's 2000 Senate race, when Democrat Mel Carnahan died in a plane crash just weeks before the November election. It was too late to remove his name from the ballot and he defeated incumbent Republican John Ashcroft. Carnahan's wife was eventually appointed to the Senate seat.

Lincoln County Clerk Elaine Luck says Winfield aldermen will appoint a mayor until the next municipal election in April 2010, when a mayor will be chosen for the remaining year of the term.