“I can’t tell you how many ways I’ve seen my name spelled, or heard it pronounced,” says College Park District 1 Councilman Patrick Wojahn. (Say woe-yahn, not “woe-john,” “woe-yan” or “yo-hahn” — though all three were used at Tuesday’s City Council meeting.)
So he’s confident that he did in fact win re-election in Tuesday’s council race — even if the chart posted in City Hall Tuesday says the winner was not Wojahn but Wojhan.
Christine Nagle, the other District 1 winner, had it even worse off. At least Wojahn appeared on the city’s ballots; she was replaced by a Christine Nagel.
“I’m glad everyone found me,” she said in an interview yesterday. “They know. They’re going to fix it. It’s okay.”
Lest we be accused of only calling attention to the negative, The Diamondback would like to point out that city election officials did not misspell “Bleau,” “Afzali” or “Gomoljak” — even if some pronunciations remained amusing.