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| 17.10.13 00:43 | | 19 DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY - MAYORAL CANDIDATE #33: BILL KAHN (LAST MINNEAPOLIS MAYOR) Kahn, 56, lives in my 'hood of Prospect Park. He's unemployed which appears to give him a lot of free time - in fact, he may actually spend more time on the Internet than I do, which is no mean feat. Kahn didn't really want to run but couldn't find anyone else to take up his particular banner, so on the final day of the filing period, he threw in his hat and/or hilarious head shot (he has a series of them, each more entertaining that the last, which he uses to accompany his many message board and blog comments) under his "party or principle" of "Last Minneapolis Mayor" - in essence, Kahn would like to get elected so that he could work to get the position of Mayor of Minneapolis abolished. His opinion is that Minneapolis doesn't really NEED a mayor...an intriguing position I MAY not entirely disagree with; after all, I believed "No Mayor Would Be Better Than CRZ" enough to get it printed on my "free" business cards. Running the city would be left to the City Council and a non-elected city manager. He'd also like to change the makeup of the City Council from representatives of the 13 kinda/sorta districted up "wards" that divide our city into a combination of 5 reps for geographic pieces of the city (northeast, north, south, southwest, southeast) and 6 (or 8, depending on which page you're on) "at large" reps who would be elected by the whole city. Again, this is a pretty intriguing solution if you believe the current setup to be a problem. When he's not putting his pet principle next to his name, Kahn identifies with the dreaded DFL, which means no matter how libertarian I think he may sound, there's probably no chance I can get him to come around for me. (In a comment on Naomi Kritzer's blog, he said his current #2 was Dr. Bruyere and his current #3 - with the caveat of a held nose - was Mrs. Hodges.) He signed up for Twitter on Sunday - in his second (and so far last) tweet, he said he'd appreciate your #3 vote. Again, since I'd appreciate your #1 Ranking, it is possible you could make both of us happy, albeit at the expense of Mr. Benjegerdes who would ALSO like your #3 vote. (By the way, at the time I type this, you can still be his very first and only follower!) I honestly can't tell you if I'd be a better mayor than this man or not - well, actually, perhaps I CAN, since I can definitely promise I would stick around if I were elected! Am I right or wrong? It's YOUR vote! NEXT: The man you've been waiting for (to put on a shirt) |