Hot off the KJAM press: Roy Lindsay has taken out petitions to run for mayor of Madison. Fortunately not deterred from politics after his defeat at the polls just three months ago in the District 8 House race, Lindsay joins a bubbling field of petitioneers considering filling the old loafers of outgoing Mayor Gene Hexom. Subway sandwich slinger Lindsay will compete for signatures and maybe votes with basketball-eyed Sioux Falls booster Myron Moen, DSU freshman Paul Michael Weist, and DSU bookstore manager Dale Davis.
Lindsay's entry into the race does not dampen my hopes that we'll see at least one more candidate enter the fray: Ashley Kenneth Allen. The first petition splashes got Allen thinking about it. Win or lose, candidate Allen would bring a vigor and modern, expansive perspective to the mayoral campaign that Madison hasn't heard yet this century. Let's mix it up: the more the merrier!