QUOTE: You don’t want to know

“Are the results for downtown in yet?”

— The question that state Rep. Leon Stavrinakis, D-Charleston, kept asking while waiting to see how he did in Tuesday’s race to be Charleston mayor. Long considered the front-runner, Stavrinakis came in a close second to businessman John Tecklenburg, who creamed Stavrinakis downtown by more than 1,000 votes — four times the number of total votes that separated them. They meet Nov. 17 in a runoff. More.