After much procrastination and great effort to prevent 2021 from actually beginning, I have started digging into Minneapolis candidates. Bad sign if the first result for your campaign is a crime watch facebook page? These are the times we're living in.
Michael Rainville, your first result is a parody twitter, followed by a David Brauer reply to Wedge LIVE highlighting your opposition to affordable housing. This "common sense" based campaign is getting you nowhere on the internet.
Ward 10 City Council candidate David Wheeler's google results are fine, but help me screw them up by sharing widely this fake affinity group logo: "4-Wheelers 4 Wheeler."
Don't try and report me for a campaign finance violation. This isn't a campaign commercial, it's a 2021 relaxation video. You're going to need it.
Did you know 2021 will have both a Hofstede (Ward 11) and a Rainville (Ward 3)? Dynasties would like to reassert themselves.
Who is running for Minneapolis City Council and Mayor in 2021? Here's an actual web page. (Which relies significantly on the popular @dbrauer spreadsheet. The version you prefer says a lot about your personality.)
wedgelive.com/2021/01/whos-r…
The Wedge is in Ward 10, so people ask me all the time: "Wedge, what do you think about ward 10 candidates?"

And I say: "Well first of all, there's too many. But if you plop candidate heads on their home neighborhood, then draw a line through it, it looks sort of scientific."

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