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| 3.10.13 02:00 | | MAYORAL CANDIDATE #18: STEPHANIE WOODRUFF (DEMOCRATIC-FARMER-LABOR) "As your Mayor, I will work everyday to make Minneapolis the smartest city in America, establish sustainable growth for our city, and lead with an open and transparent government." This is the kind of statement you're treated to if you visit the campaign website of Stephanie Woodruff, 48, Whittier. It's even worse if you head over to the Facebook site - the kind of worthless platitudes that server as Exhibit A in the kind of politician that drives me NUTS and inevitably ends up hogging all the mainstream coverage...for reasons I can't really comprehend. Woodruff is one of the favored 6-8 "top" candidates by virtue of ... I really don't know. She didn't show up to the DFL convention to seek the endorsement but popped up after the DFL failed to endorse anybody. I guess it's because she serves on the Audit Committee (which I will also confess to not knowing what the heck THAT is) as a Rybak appointee - and any connection to Mayor Rybak should concern you right off the bat, but that may be just me...anyway, she's an "insider" but running as if she's not (except when affording herself of the coverage the "insiders" get...I'm getting ranty, let's move on) Somehow, she DID secure the endorsement of the *Independence* Party - which on its face seems to make as much sense as the Libertarians endorsing the Pirate Party candidate, yuk yuk. We're so WEIRD here in Minneapolis, aren't we? Perhaps my campaign slogan should have been KEEP MINNEAPOLIS WEIRD. Would I get sued for that one? Anyway, the IP only has Rahn Workcuff (previously profiled) and I have to say I could see why they may not have wanted to endorse him. The first thing you notice from her filing of 8/8 is that Elections must keep color copies of their filings because she must have been the first candidate to have used blue ink on her filing! Her signature (which also appears on her website) is very pretty and well-practiced. Woodruff is either a "business executive" or a "software executive" depending on who's reporting. Her LinkedIn profile says she's "Chief Revenue Officer" at AverQ, a company which develops auditing software, which doesn't sound as exciting as being a Knowledge Engineer for Symantec's NetBackup technical support, but I admit I have a bias there. AverQ headquarters is located in San Jose, California, which Google Maps tells me is 2010 miles from Minneapolis. (That sounds about right - we made a drive from Santa Clara to Shorewood back in 2004.) It feels like she'd be giving up quite a gig were she to be elected mayor...but if she's already on the Audit Committee...she must be living here and not in the Bay Area? Anyway. If you didn't already know she was a lesbian, her company head shot would probably set your gaydar. Finally, her company profile includes the hyphenated "thought-leadership" so that seems like the perfect opportunity to - yes - move on. Her mantra is "People over Politics" and she seems to believe - I mean, REALLY believe that she's the only one of the 35 candidates to actually want to put people over politics. There are PLENTY of folks in this race who put politics very low on their list of things, including me. I honestly can't tell you if I'd be a better mayor than this lady or not, but I think I might be! Am I right or wrong? It's YOUR vote! Oh man, I'm ...only halfway! Crap! NEXT: A third party throwback |