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8 Oct, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Here's a thread of notable landlord zoom call appearances from city council candidates.
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8 Oct
I've consumed a lot of campaign content recently that I need to get off my chest. Here's portions of a Ward 10 forum that have touched my heart.
Chris Parsons: "I will admit I like to bike." If you've ever attended a public meeting, you'll recognize Parsons as the guy who likes to bike, but is also brave enough to acknowledge it's cold here.
From my perspective as someone who walks/buses/bikes, Chris Parsons is the worst candidate on transportation.
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8 Oct
Ward 3 candidate Michael Rainville at a landlord zoom call in April: "When it comes to housing... the number 1 thing I would do is listen to people like Alisa Mulhair. I've come to rely on her for her judgment." Mulhair is general manager at short term rental company Sonder.
Rainville's opponent is Ward 3 Council Member Steve Fletcher, who is especially disliked by this landlord group because he authored a short term rental ordinance that limits owners to one property besides the one they live in.
Host asks about the short term rental ordinance.

Rainville: "This is a good example of how I think and how I operate. Alisa Mulhair and I have gone for some great walks along the river and she's explained to me how her short term rental business got totally torpedoed..."
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8 Oct
Not only did this bypass the process of going to the City Council before staff applies for a large grant, it bypassed the relevant Public Safety Committee and went to the POGO Committee.
It's not that there wasn't close to unanimous support for the concept of an early intervention system for problem officers. At issue was whether the money should be withheld from MPD pending the presentation of an actual plan to build the system.
This amendment from Ward 3 Council Member Steve Fletcher to accept the grant, but withhold from MPD pending a plan, failed 7-6.

No: Goodman, Palmisano, Reich, Cano, Johnson, Jenkins, Osman

Yes: Fletcher, Bender, Gordon, Cunningham, Ellison, Schroeder
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5 Oct
Thanks to this tweet, now I've also rewatched the extended 2018 Budget Committee discussion where Linea Palmisano and Lisa Goodman voted against the money that created the Office of Violence Prevention.
Bonus content: Lisa Goodman said "shame on you" for not consulting her - and Steve Fletcher apologized.
Lisa Goodman makes Steve Fletcher apologize for forcing her to vote against something she agrees with.
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5 Oct
I think about this a lot. Chief Arradondo, two years into his term in 2019, talking about his vision for culture change within MPD, and an emphasis on "sanctity of life."

"Accountability, I will be judged on that. And the community should rightfully so judge me on that."
One underrated weakness of Mayor Frey is the degree to which he rests his case for fixing MPD on the personal qualities of an appointed department head who, by his own admission, isn't going to stick around much longer.
Another moment I think back to often is Deputy Chief Art Knight saying, on video at a council meeting in January 2020: "3-6% of cops shouldn't be cops" and the MPD spokesman telling the public that he didn't actually say it.
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17 Jun
SRO (single room occupancy, aka rooming house) legalization is in the news this week. Here's a thread.
Minneapolis planning staff proposed a modest/weak version that doesn't live up to the concept of legalizing SROs citywide: lowest density zoning districts in the city would be exempted and, perhaps most significantly, only government entities and non-profits could run them.
On Monday, Planning Commission had a chance to modify the staff recommendation, but the only change was to tweak the lot size requirements so that 5,000 sq ft is the standard minimum for SROs across the city. (staff had proposed a 7500 sq ft min in R3 districts, 5k in all others)
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