Curtis Gilbert
Does running for mayor of Minneapolis and coming in fourth place qualify you for a Wikipedia page? At least one person thinks Cam Winton isn’t “notable” enough. Read more →
MPR News Notes on the news from the Twin Cities
Tag: Mark Andrew
Data released today by the Minneapolis Elections Department show voters who supported Mayor-elect Betsy Hodges were far more likely to have selected a second-choice candidate than those who supported runner-up Mark Andrew. Read more →
Liala Helal
Minneapolis election officials continue counting votes in the mayor’s race at city hall Thursday.
Read more →
Minneapolis City Council Member Betsy Hodges declared victory in the race to succeed outgoing mayor R.T. Rybak. Wednesday night after several rivals called her to concede. City election officials are still counting ballots, because of the city’s ranked choice voting system. Even so, Hodges sounded like she was transitioning to the mayor’s office. “Thank you Read more →
It’s looking increasingly unlikely that Minneapolis will announce the winner of its hotly contested mayor’s race tonight, even though Mark Andrew has conceded and frontrunner Betsy Hodges is scheduled to address supporters at 8:30. The city has been counting votes for more than six hours, and Hodges remains more than 10,000 votes shy of the Read more →
Jon CollinsElection officials will work until at least midnight on Wednesday to finish the mayoral count. If it’s still not done, they’ll resume work on Thursday. Read more →
Minneapolis City Council Member Betsy Hodges won such strong support from voters today in her campaign for mayor that her closest opponent, former Hennepin County Commissioner Mark Andrew, all but conceded. Hodges is leading the race with 36 percent of voters’ first-choice ballots, according to unofficial results from the Minnesota Secretary of State’s website. That Read more →
It’s not unusual for politicians to change positions over the course of a campaign. In the Minneapolis mayor’s race, there’s one issue on which almost all the leading candidates have flip-flopped: the filing fee they paid to put their names on the ballot. At a debate last week, six of the top candidates agreed: It Read more →
Minneapolis mayoral candidate Mark Andrew and a political action committee backing him have together raised $200,000 more than any other campaign. Coalition for a Better Minneapolis, an independent PAC running T.V. ads and sending mail promoting Andrew’s candidacy, reported raising $136,500 in campaign finance documents filed today. In a campaign document released Monday, Andrews reported Read more →
Betsy Hodges’ campaign for Minneapolis mayor received a boost today from the city’s daily paper. The Star Tribune endorsed Hodges as its first choice in the crowded, 35-candidate field. The paper applauded her work on the city’s budget and her willingness to challenge powerful police and firefighter unions on pension issues. “I couldn’t have predicted Read more →