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| 2.10.13 00:21 | | 34 DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY - MAYORAL CANDIDATE #16: MIKE GOULD (DEMOCRATIC-FARMER-LABOR) Although Michael Negus Gould III is the rare candidate to not list a website OR an email - also, a rare DFL candidate to get no coverage from the Star Tribune - he's apparently quite easy to find as he is a frequent performer of art around the Twin Cities. A self-professed "fictional character," he's long been known ALREADY as "Mayor of Minneapolis" in Rice Park...which is in St. Paul. In fact, his filing lists a residence in South St. Paul ... which ALSO isn't a Minneapolis neighborhood! (He's also initialed the "will have lived in Minneapolis 30 days before the election" line so hopefully his move has gone OK.) The University's paper got a hold of him as part of their ongoing "5 of 35" series and asked what his principle would be if he hadn't declared a party - he went with "The Three E's" which are environment, education and equality. (This paper recently had a quick interview with me as well - I am told I can meet up with one of their photographers later this week so I can get the "5 of 35" treatment as well.) While researching, I turned up a 2005 article from the same paper where he admitted he agreed with a previously given diagnosis of "schizoaffective" - I don't know how he feels about it in 2013. This may not even be his first election, as records indicate one write-in vote was recorded in his name in the 2009 election. We have a theory on who may have cast that vote! He was also claiming mayor...ality (while simultaneously "running for mayor") back in 2011 when Twin Cities Sidewalks interviewed him, where a lot of his biographical info can be found - he grew up in Edina and he's a graduate of Blake School, the same school Al Franken went to, and counts The Suburbs' Chandler Polling as a classmate. So...I went to high school with Jeremy Renner, so there. Sadly, this great blog entry only got two comments and they're both spammers. There's no justice on the Internet! If he graduated in 1976, that'd make him around 55 today. Hey, Prince is 55! The 2005 piece confirms a 1958 birthday, and also says he'd been married 15 years (would be 23 now - yeah!) and has three daughters. There's also some fine Mike Gould themed graffiti circa 2011 on Flickr, so he really HAS been running for a long time...or graffiti'ing up the U, at least. I feel like a Facebook page would have had more of an effect on getting actual votes...but that may not have been his point. (Also, maybe not have used the swastika...even if it's the OK backward one) I honestly can't tell you if I'd be a better mayor than this guy or not, but I have a suspicion we're both engaging in some form of performance art! Am I right or wrong? It's YOUR vote! NEXT: Another guy with no email or website - man, I picked a great place in the line to blow this off, but I gotta get crackin'...I'm running out of time |