FYI, in the 1st ward, I will be seeking the DFL endorsement for City Council.
Gary Bowman
Ward 1- Audubon Park
On Thu, 25 January 2001, "David Brauer" wrote:
>
> Was called the other night by Douglas Kress, a King Field resident who has
> decided to run for the 10th ward council seat presumably vacated by Lisa
> McDonald when she runs for mayor. That makes Doug the second candidate,
> after Dan Niziolek. A lot of us have been surprised that in such an activist
> ward, there have been so few announced DFL candidates.
>
> Like Dan, it sounds like Doug is a current city employee, working on the
> social-programs side with Way To Grow and the Youth Coordinating Board. (Dan
> is a former CCP/SAFE officer now working for a program on crime prevention
> through design.)
>
> Among other personal and political details, Doug told me he will seek DFL
> endorsement but has not yet decided to abide by the endorsement should
> someone else get it. (He was calling me because I am a 10th ward delegate.
> He also supports my change to city-year delegate selection.) He talked of a
> more collaborative approach with neighborhood residents and leaders,
> something Dan has also spoken of. I got the sense, given his current job,
> that he believes the city has a strong role in social programs, and based on
> his experience, he can help make those programs both efficient and
> effective. There were a host of other issues we rattled through but I'll let
> him speak for himself on those since we only touched on them briefly.
>
> I offered him a chance to bring his candidacy "out of the closet" by sending
> something to the Minneapolis-issues list, and he laughed and told me he is
> out of the closet in one way already. Like Scott Benson in the 11th, Doug is
> attempting to become only the second gay man, after Brian Coyle, to serve on
> the Minneapolis City Council. He & his partner live in the 3900 block of
> Garfield.
>
> Doug is probably too busy phoning delegates for our March 31 ward
> convention, so after giving him a couple of days to post I figured I'd just
> blab it.
>
> With the earliest DFL conventions less than six weeks away, it is time to
> update our roster of races. This is not a complete list, but I know of
> inter-party battles in at least four wards:
>
> Ward 2: Brian Hanninen versus Joan Campbell
> Ward 9: Michael Guest versus Kathy Thurber. (Gary Schiff is also running,
> but I'm not sure if he's seeking DFL or Green endorsement or both.)
> Ward 10: Kress versus Niziolek
> Ward 12: Craig Larson versus Sandy Colvin Roy
>
> Interparty races:
> Ward 2: the Greens' Cam Gordon has announced
> Ward 13: DFLer Greg Abbott will take on Independent Barret Lane
>
> Other wards I'm not fully up to speed on:
> Ward 6: Barb Lickness...has anyone else announced?
> Ward 3: Joe Biernat versus the newspaper ad
>
> Help me fill in the roster...if this list can't generate a complete list of
> races, who can?
>
> David Brauer
> King Field - Ward 10
>
>
>
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