It's a Small World

In April I posted THIS on my blog.  It was a look back at early 2006 political prognostications and an update to what had happened since.

One of the individiuals predicted to be a rising star was Kokomo Mayor Matt McKillip.  However, in 2007 he lost in his own Primary by a significant margin.  It was clear in my frequent visits that he was highly unpopular, thus my comment in the post that he was "one of the most unpopular men in Kokomo."

Now, my sister and brother in law live out in the middle of nowhere Montana near Glacier National Park.  The closest "big" city is Kalispell.  They forwarded me the article below last week.

The Kalispell City Council's choice for city manager has a reputation as a hard-charging, dynamic leader, but he was soundly defeated in his re-election bid as mayor of Kokomo, Ind., and called by an Indiana blogger "one of the most unpopular men in Kokomo."

That comment at prospergroupthink.com actually was a response to the irony of an earlier 2006 Hotline article that cited Matt McKillip as "a real up and comer" the year before he was ousted in a Republican primary.

McKillip became the first incumbent Kokomo mayor to lose a primary election in 32 years. McKillip was mayor of Kokomo, an industrial city of 50,000, from 2004 to 2007.

So it's an awfully small world.  I'm causing problems for Matt McKillip 30 hours from home, although I truly wish him well.