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14.10.13 20:15

"C'mon, guys! Let's frustrate Rybak WITH OUR CHANTS!" #RAW #fustration

14.10.13 20:05

"Cena's return is YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE" - HiaC ad #RAW

14.10.13 20:01

Steph's got the Columbo eyes #RAW

14.10.13 19:57

Did she say "to be staken?" #RAW

14.10.13 19:46

At least... the commentators are having fun? #RAW

14.10.13 19:35

"Best for Business" count: 2 #RAW

14.10.13 19:07

Shawn's rubbing his nose like this is late 80's AWA #RAW #is #coke

14.10.13 19:02

"Best for business" count: 1 #RAW

14.10.13 18:53

Can of Diet Dr Pepper

14.10.13 17:37

Listened to Downtown Party Network - Space Me Out (Mario Basanov remix)

14.10.13 17:23

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Listened to Magnetic Man - I Need Air

14.10.13 17:04

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Listened to Magnetic Man feat. Katy B - Perfect Stranger

14.10.13 16:01

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Listened to Magnetic Man - s/t

14.10.13 15:46

Listened to The Sisters of Mercy - Colours

14.10.13 15:35

Listened to The Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion

14.10.13 15:00

SYMC closing quote: 25.18 ▲0.10 (Range: 24.87 - 25.25)

14.10.13 14:52

OfficeMax (Roseville, MN)

14.10.13 14:49

Oh, right, they're closed - U.S. Post Office (Roseville, MN)

14.10.13 13:41

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Listened to Nero - Welcome Reality

14.10.13 12:56

Symantec (Roseville, MN)

14.10.13 12:56

Coffee - hmm, I forgot to check in, didn't I

14.10.13 11:27

Anybody know who Gov. Ventura likes for #MPLSmayor?

13.10.13 22:50

You can spell Saltalamacchia without RBI #failedheadlines

13.10.13 22:24

Salami

13.10.13 19:07

Hilarious - @jpdelaire sums up the #Vikings in a brilliant two minutes of funk: https://soundcloud.com/j-p-delaire/vikings-suck-mix-1 (Cc: @TheFdeluxe)

13.10.13 18:33

@thecubsfan I expected that kind of algorithmic respose from you

13.10.13 18:26

Turns out @TheUpTake already did this, and did it better: http://www.theuptake.org/2013/10/12/who-will-be-the-next-minneapolis-mayor-checking-the-clues-on-facebook-and-twitter/ (also, which of you followers are fake?) #MPLSmayor #MPLS13

13.10.13 17:35

MAYORAL CANDIDATE #27: CAM WINTON (INDEPENDENT RESPONSIBLE INCLUSIVE)

Randolph Cameron Winton - the very name suggests a predestination from birth to a lifetime of attorney-ing (optionally followed by a lifetime of politicking). Sure enough, a quick Google search reveals an attorney record listing an address in Canby (a town I've never heard of but which Google Maps tells me is a three hour drive from Minneapolis). Fear not - his filing lists a residence in Fulton, on the very edge of the city limits. Canby is probably where all the wind is - Winton joined up with a wind turbine maintenance company for which he later helped facilitate a sale to Duke Energy Corp. What have YOU done with YOUR life? And he's only 34 - I believe he's the second youngest candidate in the race (Mr. Hanna, 28, would take the title of youngest...unless I've missed another youngster amongst the remaining folks I haven't profiled yet. Stay tuned to this channel!) but it probably helps that he looks older. And yet he wants to give up a Duke Energy Senior Council gig to become mayor? It seems like the opposite of career advancement...unless, of course, mayor isn't the last political office you intend to seek...

By the way, that's why the "Y" in all his signs is a windmill - I mean, wind turbine.

He has a STAGGERING and strangely round-numbered 3,500 Likes on Facebook; more than enough to make me raise an eyebrow and wonder how many of them were - how shall I put this? - "not organically collected." It has been reported that his Facebook advertising budget is somwhere in the five figure range - and that as of over a month ago. He probably HASN'T bought any Twitter followers...I'm beating him by over 200 on that metric. I continue to maintain a zero dollar budget for both Likes and followers, as well as practically everything else.

Going by the photos page on his campaign website, it looks like he stopped wearing glasses RIGHT around the time he started running. That bugged me just enough to mention it here, but I also carry this delusion that I wear the coolest pair of specs on the planet.

So many robocalls and emails - as you know, I was dumb enough to give the GOP my real address when I attended caucuses and conventions for Ron Paul in '08 and '12. This has resulted in my email address being sold to all kinds of folks who think I am interested in hearing from Republicans. Winton really wants to have it both ways, by the way - he opted out of the political suicide of choosing "Republican" as his party or principle, instead opting for the word mishmash you see above, yet he buys Republican mailing lists and sends very "I'm the only conservative in the race!" emails. There is a subtle difference between "I'm the only center/right candidate in the DEBATES" (which you could almost make a case for) and "I'm the only center/right candidate in the RACE" (which is a flat out lie).

Let me break out and give this its own paragraph, because I want to be really clear about this lie, so here are his own words from his own email: "I have the center&right to myself - while my 34 opponents divide the rest of the spectrum." I mean, what bullshit. It's actually worse now that I look at it because he's not saying he's center/right, he's saying he's encompassing the ENTIRE center AND right parts of the spectrum - that's like over half of the spectrum, right? And his 34 opponents all fall into this tiny box? Preposterous.

(DISCLAIMER: I hate the use of the spectrum at all, but as a Libertarian I consider myself "center/right" on the issues on which the mayor would have any real say - your mileage may vary [and feel free to leave a comment if you disagree - or even if you agree!])

...not that you'd even hear about this "center & right" stuff because every chance he gets, he *panders* to the "left" by praising all his DFL opponents and in turn, suckering them into praising HIM so he can post their quotes on his Facebook page. This is a smart way to run in our one party town - obviously the "smart" money says you will need the support of people who vote for the one party in order to win - and in the era of Ranked Choice Voting, if three or four DFL candidates DO split the #1 votes and he's convinced sufficient numbers to rank him second (and his Twitter stream is largely devoted to that kind of plea), he can definitely steal this election. In fact, I believe that's his campaign's overall strategy: seek out 100% of the Republican vote (sure, Minnesota Republicans know the deal and will hold their noses and forgive him for shunning the party label because of a misguided belief that results are the only thing that matters) while playing nice with the DFL and maybe convincing (or conning, you pick) enough of them to throw enough support to sneak out a win in a splintered field.

I highlighted the word "panders" up there because one of his "preachin' to the choir" gimmicks on his Facebook page is to dress up his negative campaigning [because nobody in this race is doing any negative campaigning, the media keeps saying] by using a "panda" scale based on how much he feels his opponent du status update has pandered to the voters. The absolute worst crime a politician can commit is hypocrisy.

Winton's got no end of gimmicks - he regularly holds circus events disguised as press conferences which the media are eating up, although I'm never sure whether they just want to find a way to mock him without looking like they're mocking him...letting him set himself up by posing with animals, on the bus, in the pothole, with multiple umbrellas, and so on - they post the photos without commentary and leaving it to the folks viewing the photos write their own jokes.

The thing is, Minneapolis is DYING for some fiscal responsibility. Maybe electing Winton would help bring it about, but it would depend which Winton gets elected...although I bet the Winton who would be elected has been carefully hidden from the Winton presented out in public. That's a long, overly mysterious way of saying "he'd probably be a great Republican mayor...I wonder how many people voting for him will be aware of that when they're voting for him? Also, is this just a stealth campaign to set up later runs for....Governor? Senator? Pope?"

In a sense, a Winton-led Minneapolis would probably be a lot like a Zimmerman-led Minneapolis, with the City Council working really hard to make sure the mayor didn't do anything too outside the orthodox - which would hopefully lead to a deadlocked, gridlocked government which couldn't accomplish ANYTHING. I'm not even sure if I'm serious or joking at this point. Let's move on.

I honestly can't tell you if I'd be a better mayor than this guy or not, but I believe I would! Am I right or wrong? It's YOUR vote!

NEXT: Man, it doesn't stop - next up is one of the presumptive "frontrunners"

13.10.13 17:20

@toshi3215 What does it mean? (Google translate: これはどういう意味？)

13.10.13 16:09

23 DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY: I've been procrastinating on finishing up my (surely highly-anticipated) Cam Winton writeup when a discussion over on e-democracy about Facebook Likes turned to a discussion of Twitter. I ended up compiling this list of Twitter follower counts for the 18 candidates for which I could find accounts - surprisingly, I'm in the Top 3!

2003 Betsy Hodges (@betsyhodges)
1173 Mark Andrews (@MarkForMpls)
821 Me (@CRZ)
602 Cam Winton (@cam_winton)
593 Don Samuels (@don__samuels)
516 Merrill Anderson (@reach_mia)
356 Jackie Cherryhomes (@CherryhomesMpls)
240 Kurt Hanna (@CaptainKurtis)
138 Stephanie Woodruff (@swoodruffmpls)
  47 Bob Fine (@FineforMayor)
  13 Jeffrey Alan Wagner (@PissedOffMPLS)
  12 Dan Cohen (@DanCohenMayor)
   6 Alicia K. Bennett (@akbformpls)
   3 Edmund Bernard Bruyere (@BruyereforMayor)
   0 Bob "Again" Carney (@Transitrev)
   0 Bill Kahn (@LastMayorBill)
   0 Cyd Gorman (@CydGorman)
   0 James L. "Jimmy" Stroud Jr. (@JIMMY4MAYORMPLS)

A little more detail in my post over on e-dem linked right.......here: (Link to E-Democracy.org: Minneapolis Mayoral campaign moves from lawn signs to Facebook ...)

13.10.13 16:03

Which #MPLSmayor candidate has the most followers? http://forums.e-democracy.org/r/post/28Q4R3jXmZcmi0bpu7KkcS #MPLS13

13.10.13 16:02

I found 18 #MPLSmayor candidates on Twitter: https://t.co/foMhtBN97Z (let me know if I missed you) #MPLS13

13.10.13 14:44

@BringMN Are you guys aware you've been sending all your @BringMNsports tweets through the wrong account for hours? (it's annoying)

13.10.13 14:33

You forgot VIKINGS were in the building. RT @PerkatPlay: The @minnesotalynx in the building. That pretty much guarantees a Vikings victory.

13.10.13 00:48

@britain Thanks for the kind words. Anyway, these days it's all Subway, Domino's, Popeye's and USA original programming

12.10.13 22:14

McDonald's (Saint Paul, MN)