Yay! Hodges won! (:
So the city council there has 12 Democrats and 1 Green!
Cam Gordon is kind of a GINO. He's on the right wing of the council arguably and isn't any more left than your average Minneapolis Democrat, plus he's been in favor of stupid anti-college student ordinances. He only got elected because he ran against an unpopular yet established Democrat in 2005 and was well known as the head of the state Green Party back when the Party wasn't a joke, aka pre-Nader 2004 (in 2000 Nader beat Bush in a bunch of Minneapolis precincts, including the closest one to the one I live in now.) Also note his only opposition was a Socialist Workers candidate, the DFL never tries to get rid of him because there's really no reason to. Though I must say the idea of a two candidate race where the Green Party candidate is the more conservative one still amuses me to no end.
Yep.
My apartment was one with a Bob Fine sign though, though it seems odd landlords would do that. In 2012 there was a Kurt Bills sign, but gone and in the trash a day later, which makes me suspect it was put up by some random Paulite (despite lack of real Republicans, we have no shortage of those) instead of the landlord. Plus it's not one person but some LLC that owns the building and why would you want to alienate your tenants like that?
BTW my first preference was Mike Gould (who received 0.26%) of the vote, an eccentric joke candidate. My second was Andrew and my third Hodges, but I'm not too bothered by Hodges winning as noted, in fact in hindsight I realize I might prefer her. The main reason for my higher pref of Andrew was: 1-A general "meh" attitude toward the Minneapolis City Council and belief that none of them deserved to be the next mayor and 2-Sort of a punishment for Gary Schiff endorsing her. FWIW Hodges seems to be the strip club owners' candidate too (I haven't been to one in over a year now actually...but any municipal election mentioned by me has to mention that. 
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So just curious, why Gould as first choice?
