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Minneapolis, MN
Joined July 2014
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The truth about bus lanes: bus drivers hate them because car drivers are maniacs.
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Marriage is a milestone. Stop treating it like a capstone. Marriage is near the beginning of adult life and makes you a full functioning member of society. It comes before your career. Your relationship with you spouse is more foundational than you job. Your kids are a product
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A subplot has emerged in the post-election period: What's the future hold for electric upstart Jazz Hampton? Can his team carefully select a next move that's a winner? Or does he go on to earn the perennial candidate nickname, "Jazz Again Carney"?
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Congratulations to our 2025 Wedgie Award Winner for Worst Pundit, Mike Norton. He wins this award both for his pre-election predictions and for his post-election analysis. Mike, in these dark times, you are truly a beacon of wrong.
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🚨 Minneapolis election wrap up episode with Taylor Dahlin & Josh Martin, with special guest Commissioner-elect Jason Garcia! Find Wedge LIVE wherever you get podcasts. https://t.co/Pfu7mFG1lr
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On today's episode: Josh Martin opens up about what took him down a path of extremism: from Kate Knuth doorknocker in 2021 to Omar Fateh's treasurer in 2025. Plus, reaction and analysis to last week's election results.
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2025 didn't just have the highest number of voters, it had the lowest percentage of down-ballot apathy in the race for Board of Estimate & Taxation in at least the last three mayoral elections. Undervote rate (people leaving this race blank) went down from 34% to 27%.
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Two candidates who each received about a half percent of the vote for mayor (Brenda Short & Laverne Turner) are casting doubt on results by falsely claiming the city clerk's office is under the direction of Mayor Frey. Press conference Monday about "discrepancies."
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The Metro Transit B Line recently celebrated its one millionth ride. The new bus is almost living up to the "rapid transit" hype, if you ignore the surly guy heckling people he thinks are taking their sweet ass time boarding. That wasn't supposed to be one of the features.
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I'm on my way to give a speech at a victory party for Eric Harris Bernstein, where I'll say something like "the most successful citywide progressive campaign Minneapolis has seen in a generation, powered almost entirely by downballot apathy."
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If you simply extract the Frey votes from the ballot box and incinerate them, results would be a lot different, said the pundit.
There seems to be a lot of half-baked theories about why Frey won re-election, but when you look at the data he just ran up the score in the wealthiest parts of Minneapolis. If you throw out Wards 3, 7, 11, 12, and 13 Frey and Fateh flip their totals. 🧵(1/7)
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My post-election thoughts and an open letter to the backroom cabal who selects our candidates for mayor. https://t.co/67v7W0szxO
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My thoughts on Jacob Frey's reelection to a third term as mayor I've heard casual observers comment that "progressives need to put forward better candidates for mayor." And who could disagree with...
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Really disappointed in this offensive sign displayed in the window of the Uptown UPS store.
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Extended the chart to the top 2 candidates in each ward. We have to rescind Becka's great value award and give it to Bob Again at zero dollars per vote.
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Ward 5 total number of voters is actually 5574. The city's results page is formatted differently than the others because it went to RCV tabulation, so I failed to include undervotes.
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CORRECTION: my language got casual. I should have said fewest spent per vote received among the candidates I included in this chart. There were certainly candidates who spent less.
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Becka Thompson wins the Great Value Award for the council candidate with fewest dollars spent per vote received - $4.21. She still lost big to Aurin Chowdhury ($6.47). Shelley Madore ($62.31) outdid Lydia Millard ($42.59) for biggest spender per vote. Both of them lost big.
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🏆 Congratulations Ward 12, you produced highest number of voters this year. Total votes cast by ward (roughly equal populations - 33k): W1 13,038 W2 6,955 W3 13,737 W4 6,935 W5 5,037 W6 7,797 W7 13,285 W8 12,276 W9 8,417 W10 11,367 W11 14,202 W12 17,168 W13 16,951
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