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| 17.10.13 21:41 | | I know you want me to defeat you in SongPop, and I WANT to defeat you in SongPop...but the thing just never breaks out of the "Loading..." loop for me lately. I'll keep trying... |
| 17.10.13 21:40 | | @wildcatrusty I think if you watched enough AWF episodes, you wouldn't ask it that way. |
| 17.10.13 21:36 | | I religiously watch AWF but always conveniently forget when Impact is on, because I'm complicated. |
| 17.10.13 19:00 | | Listened to Information Society - The Ridge 1.1 |
| 17.10.13 18:52 | | Listened to Nine Inch Nails - Down in It (Shred) |
| 17.10.13 18:25 | | Why wasn't this story written in Minneapolis - or even Minnesota? http://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/Best-of-the-Burgh-Blogs/Pulling-No-Punches/October-2013/The-NFL-is-Running-a-Billion-Dollar-Con/ (via @MinnPost: http://minnpo.st/1hZcCxA) #MPLS13 |
| 17.10.13 17:33 |  | 24 oz bottle of Diet Dr Pepper |
| 17.10.13 17:08 | | @smckenzie21 Thank you! I'll try to get this done tonight. (I'm sure you did email me and my spam filter helpfully misfiled it) |
| 17.10.13 15:00 |  | SYMC closing quote: 25.09 ▼0.04 (Range: 24.93 - 25.25) |
| 17.10.13 13:46 | | Coffee! |
| 17.10.13 12:22 | | YOGURT OF THE DAY: RASPBERRY (GREEK) #yogurtoftheday #MPLSmayor #MPLS13 |
| 17.10.13 12:07 | | [+] Listened to The Orb - u.f. orb (Deluxe Edition) |
| 17.10.13 11:37 | |  Symantec (Roseville, MN) |
| 17.10.13 11:31 | | Listened to Ace of Base - Always Have, Always Will |
| 17.10.13 11:27 | | Listened to Giorgio Moroder - Let's Take The Night |
| 17.10.13 11:26 | | Listened to Slik - Don't Take Your Love Away |
| 17.10.13 04:14 | | @dbrauer Finally finished 34 #MPLSmayor opponent profiles: http://facebook.com/CRZforMayor - love to hear any reaction or if it's even worth sharing! |
| 17.10.13 04:07 | | MAYORAL CANDIDATE #35: CYD GORMAN (POLICE REFORM) Ms.(?) Gorman listed an address in Harrison on her filing, and her signature looks a lot like her printed name. And we're done. No, really...she has a mostly private and/or dormant Facebook page, an empty Twitter account (no tweets, no followers, only following Barack Obama and Sandra Bullock), a blank LinkedIn entry, an empty Google Plus page, no Star Tribune questionnaire, and a website which doesn't look have been updated in over a year (and only once since 2009). Her Twitter bio seems to have the most current information (or information at all) about her: "Live in Minneapolis MN. Wanted to write books and screen plays most of my life but had to raise family first. Looking forward to my next chapter in life." There ARE some books listed on her personal website, and Amazon lists two with her name on the cover as well. No reviews for either. It appears that there were plans for a local journal called "Cyd's Weekly Report" but they never really materialized. There were ALSO plans for a separate nonprofit (and another website with Gorman's telephone number) but that also appears to have gone by the wayside. Given that she was the final candidate to file, it looks like she wanted to pay her twenty bucks and make her "party or principle" serve as her complete statement - with nobody else mentioning it, perhaps it was up to her to make sure people saw "Police Reform" on the ballot and that's all she wanted, so that's all she's done. If so...good for her. She'll be another scapegoat for raising the filing fee, but she got to make her statement this time around. One thing I can tell you for sure is her name is right underneath mine on the ballot (except on any ballots where she's listed first, in which case I'd be last). Did you know I'm the only cadidate of the 35 whose name is sandwiched between two women's names? No, you didn't - and you didn't care. But I thought that was pretty neat. Sorry to end with so much filler - I might have tried harder with CM Hodges if I had known she was the last of the "big" candidates. I honestly can't tell you if I'd be a better mayor than this lady or not, but I feel like I might be! Am I right or wrong? It's YOUR vote! And THAT'S ALL of the candidates! NOW whatever will we talk about? I hope you've learned some stuff you didn't know about at least one of these folks, and maybe I've helped you decide on your Top 3. Please let me know if you have any additional questions or feel I've left any gaps in my research - and one more time, if you could Like and Share /CRZforMayor for me, I'd love for everybody in Minneapolis (and Earth) to know at least as much about all 35 candidates as I feel I now do before they vote, ranking their top three. Thanks again for visiting my page! |
| 17.10.13 03:00 | | MAYORAL CANDIDATE #34: JEFFREY ALAN WAGNER (DEMOCRATIC-FARMER-LABOR) "Wake the f*ck up!" These four words permeate throughout Wagner's campaign - it would be great if that were what people heard and took to heart, but...we all know better. With his initial viral video (which I haven't linked, but I'm sure you've seen), former and current local rock tycoon Wagner stole the mantle from Mr. Sparrow as the candidate the rest of the nation (or maybe just its media) were happy to point to as a complete distraction and declare just how weird our happy little crowded mayor's race had become. But it's the Internet, so of course there's a whole lot more to the story - but most of the blog commenters who immediately declared "I'll vote for him!" didn't need (or WANT) to hear it. (Nor did they want to see any follow-up ads...at least two have been released, and as is usually the case with this viral stuff, it's been hard to recapture the lightning in more than one bottle.) Although he declared DFL, he has some very un-DFL beliefs - normally, this isn't a bad thing, but... At the Star Tribune, he declined to state his age on his questionnaire, but did offer his occupation as a baggage handler at MSP. ("Baggage handler" is not a double entendre, though I understand if you thought about going there.) Some of his tweets have given the impression that he works at the Taco Bell in the airport, but I'm pretty sure he's joshin' there. (IS there a Taco Bell in the airport?) Most of his tweets/Facebook status updates prior to filing do appear to revolve around the baggage handling arena (no pun intended...also, most of the photos have disappeared...or maybe the links broke because he had chaged the name of his Facebook wall page to "JeffreyWagner4Mayor" - ah, it's late, I have to stop trying to figure this out.) ANYWAY. When not running for office or working at the airport, Wagner produces MRTC TV (Modern Rock Twin Cities Television) for Blip and YouTube...ah, now we have the background behind the ability to produce viral advertisements, yeah? Anyway, somewhere along the line he decided to separate the campaign from his business (well, sorta) so he another Twitter account was created. That one's got 5 tweets and 15 followers. (The MRTC Twitter has just under 300 followers.) He has said that he's 46 on that Twitter account - this gibes with the ages on BustedMugShots.com's six arrest records between 2000 and 2009. I didn't pay to find out what they were, but elsewhere on the Internet it is reported that it's mostly DWI and/or driving while on suspension from the DWI. I'm not sure this was ever reported in the Star Tribune, by the way. Roll your eyes with me here. Another thing you haven't read in the papers is that he lives in Columbia Heights, which is juuuuuuuust outside the city limits and not a part of Minneapolis. As covered earlier with Mr. Anderson and Mr. Gould, there aren't a whole lot of requirements when you pay your $20 to file, but you DO have to swear or affirm that you'll have lived in the city for 30 days by the day of the election. I haven't seen any indication of any recent moves and we're passed that 30 day mark... If you'd like to see what a younger to MUCH younger Wagner looked like, he's put up on YouTube his appearance before Judge Wapner on "The People's Court" - no year attached, but with Wapner would have to be between 1981 and 1993 - he's definitely been a rakishly handsome lad all his life. I should also mention that he ran for City Council in 2009, amassing 321 votes and finishing third of the three declared candidates. (He may not have lived in Minneapolis THEN, either - but a Southwest Journal profile says he did indeed live in the Ward in which he was running, in Loring Park. This profile also contains this quote, intimating that the Wagner style of politics didn't originate in 2013: "I’m a fool, dude...Not a good idea to drink heavy and then decide to try to change the world.") So there you have it. A great message, but a checkered past, checkered present, possibly not meeting the simple qualifications of city residency. Oh, AND he's one of the "Likes" for this page, and hopefully I didn't lose him if he reads this far. By the way, he and I have 15 mutual friends on Facebook...and, because he's big into the rock scene, it should come as no surprise that almost all of our mutual friends are also in at least one band. Sometimes I think I'm the only guy in Minneapolis not in a band. Maybe I should join a band after the election. I honestly can't tell you if I'd be a better mayor than this man or not, but unless he moves to Minneapolis yesterday, it might be a moot point! Am I right or wrong? It's YOUR vote! NEXT: Have we finally reached the end of this list? Praise the Lord! |
| 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) |
| 17.10.13 00:02 | | Just noticed - in @StarTribune's "meet 30 mayoral candidates" online thing, they misspelled "principle" ALL THIRTY TIMES. #MPLSmayor #MPLS13 |
| 16.10.13 22:38 | | @DavidRagan @FrontRowNASCAR Congrats! I've bought @FarmRichSnacks mozzarella sticks + mushrooms in your honor (well, and they were on sale) |
| 16.10.13 20:54 | | Listened to Frankie Goes to Hollywood - The Ballad of 32 |
| 16.10.13 20:50 | | Listened to Zoot Woman - Taken It All (Todd Edwards Soul Line Radio Vocal Edit) |
| 16.10.13 20:47 | | Listened to Company B - Incredible Boy |
| 16.10.13 19:37 |  | Rainbow Foods (Minneapolis, MN) |
| 16.10.13 19:34 | | Listened to Santana - Black Magic Woman |
| 16.10.13 19:30 | | Listened to The Future Sound of London - Herd Killing |
| 16.10.13 19:29 | | Listened to Young Leek - Jiggle It |
| 16.10.13 19:21 | | Aw, thanks! But it's spelled "you're" RT @StephenLeicht: Even when your grumpy and stressed I still love you im so happy your in my life <3 |
| 16.10.13 19:20 | | @SheilaEdrummer "Sheilaedrumm" didn't work - are you also "Sheilaedrummer" on Instagram? |
| 16.10.13 17:51 | | Listened to Giorgio Moroder - Giorgio Moroder feat. Alejandro - My Name Is ... (2013) |
| 16.10.13 17:41 | | Listened to Magnetic Man - Crossover (feat. Katy B) |
| 16.10.13 16:48 | | @lls404 @smckenzie21 27 candidates appear to be missing - may I offer a plug for my work at http://facebook.com/CRZforMayor? #MPLSmayor |
| 16.10.13 16:30 | | [+] Listened to Chemical Brothers - Sunday Times Compilation |
| 16.10.13 15:38 | | [+] Listened to The Chemical Brothers - Further |
| 16.10.13 15:32 | | 24 oz bottle of Diet Dr Pepper |
| 16.10.13 15:00 | | SYMC closing quote: 25.13 ▲0.17 (Range: 25.01 - 25.30) |
| 16.10.13 14:14 |  | Listened to HARD hardfest.com - HARD Day of the Dead Mixtape #5: The Stalker Mixtape by Soul Clap feat. Nick Monaco |
| 16.10.13 13:02 | | Coffee |
| 16.10.13 12:50 | | @DavidGilliland Congratulations David! I'm so happy to be able to root for the 38 for another year! (Coming around on the 34 as well ;-) ) |
| 16.10.13 11:20 | | Symantec (Roseville, MN) |
| 16.10.13 11:09 | | Listened to Junkie XL - We Become One |
| 16.10.13 11:05 | | Listened to Duck Sauce - Essential Mix 2013-10-12 |
| 16.10.13 11:00 | | U.S. Post Office (Minneapolis, MN) |
| 16.10.13 03:42 | | 31 down, 3 to go! http://facebook.com/CRZforMayor #MPLSmayor #MPLS13 |
| 16.10.13 02:55 | | Sandman P.M. |
| 16.10.13 02:50 | | MAYORAL CANDIDATE #32: ALICIA K. BENNETT (DEMOCRATIC-FARMER-LABOR) Bennett (34, Near-North) signed up for Twitter, but has never tweeted. She DID fill out her bio, so we could paste that in here, I guess: "Teacher. Truth-Seeker. Candidate for Mayor of Minneapolis. Try me ... You'll like me." Hmmmm...I could have used that! She is on LinkedIn - let's steal THAT bio: "Teacher. Truth-Seeker. Rebel. Revolutionary. | Working to Help Marginalized Communities & People Realize Their Power." I found her on Facebook, but there's not much there that's public. Instead of a photo of her, it's a picture of Huey Freeman from "The Boondocks" which kida fits in with her most of her other bios. Although she didn't list a website on her filing, it turns out she DOES have a website...it's a whopping 7 page Bluehost.com "stock" WordPress site. Her bio over THERE mentions a partner and two dogs. Every issue in this campaign traces back to poverty, she says. Also, her "blog" section has one entry: a "hello world" piece from 8/18 which says in full: "I will be posting to my campaign blog soon." Another lying politician...why I oughta - on the other hand, that "AB" logo is very nicely designed. Her Star Tribune questionnaire almost avoids poverty, instead talking about how awful Ranked Choice Voting is and how she'd advocate to eliminate it. She could probably do that without being elected mayor. You know, since Minneapolis held the vote to go ahead with RCV, this is ONLY the second election to have it. It seems a little premature to write it off just yet - even with only three rankings. (If anything, we should be working on getting more rankings instead of scrapping it altogether. I'm sure I've said this before, though.) Aside from the answer with all of the RCV bashing, a lot of her other answers don't totally appear to match up with the questions asked....or are so vague they could apply to practically any concept, but in a real "literary" way - I urge you to go check 'em out and expand your mind while seeking truth. I honestly can't tell you if I'd be a better mayor than this lady or not, but I feel like I would! Am I right or wrong? It's YOUR vote! NEXT: I feel close to back on schedule! We're finally up to the final day of the filing period with only three candidates to go! Up next - my neighbour! |
| 16.10.13 02:11 | | MAYORAL CANDIDATE #31: JOSHUA REA (END HOMELESSNESS NOW) Rea is homeless, but listed an address in Central on his filing form, making him the third candidate in a row to list a Powderhorn address and the third candidate in a row to have a homeless/Occupy theme, and of course all this is because the three of them all went to Elections together to file, and I believe Mr. Sparrow paid all three filing fees with cash. (I also paid cash!) Actually, it now appears that Rea is helping Occupy Jaymie Kelly's home at the moment, according to a report from Mr. Carney, so everybody's friends here. I'm pretty sure Rea misspelled Gmail ("Gmial") on his filing. Rea has no website listed and was one of the five candidates to not submit a Star Tribune questionaire. He may not have Internet access. He has a Facebook profile (I think?) but it looks as dormant as Sparrow's. Assuming I got the right Facebook profile, his claimed graduation from high school (in San Diego) of 1996 would make him around 35. He DID make it down to one of Mr. Carney's meetings, from where I got my first "they showed up" photo - he's on the far right if you want to scroll all the way down to look at it again. I believe we've identified everybody in that photo now. (By the way, Sparrow DID go back and edit his original blog post to identify everybody, but I never edited my own post. I could do that now...but nobody cares at this point, right? Or you've already figured it out on your own? Great! Let's move on.) He's also talked to the Daily and is featured in their "5 of 35" this week (edition coming out later this morning), so at least we have a good standalone photo to (ahem) borrow....the beard's coming along nicely! Unfortunately, the only good quote from him seems to be another variation of the "the city should use eminent domain to convert bank-owned property into affordable community housing" argument I've now read three times in a row. And...unfortunatly, that's really all I could find on him. Again, it looks like this was an effort to get another "party or principle" on the ballot for everybody to see, but there isn't really an active campaign behind this candidate. I honestly can't tell you if I'd be a better mayor than this guy or not, but I feel pretty certain that I would. Am I right or wrong? It's YOUR vote! NEXT: The tenth and final of the ten candidates to file on the penultimate day of the filing period |
| 16.10.13 01:15 | | 20 DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY - MAYORAL CANDIDATE #30: CAPTAIN JACK SPARROW (COUNT ALL RANKINGS) Sparrow is the former Charles David Viebahn - he decided on the name change last year, a day after being charged with trespassing coming out of some Occupy activity - he pled down to a misdemeanor and is currently on probation. (Fortunately, no felonies - so he's qualified to run for mayor!) He grabbed all the early oxygen from the filing period by virtue of his name and outfit and the fact that the AP reporter was extremely lazy that day. Although listing an address in Bancroft on his filing, Sparrow (a young looking 62) is a squatter at the moment - yet he was able to pay his AND Ms. Kelly's filing fees when they simultaneously went to Elections on 8/12 to file at the behest of Mr. Carney, who was along to document. (Both fees were paid in cash.) Due to recent requests from Occupy, he may not even be squatting in the same house anymore, as they were concerned with both his run for Mayor and that he may be "too rich" to occupy an Occupy house. All this sounds really silly. Sparrow has also blogged about his time in the Young Socialist Alliance, how he recognised the Socialist Workers' Party as a cult, and how he sees some of that cult-ness in Occupy. It does appear that for their part, Occupy split with Sparrow, essentially disowned him and asked him to never come near 'em again. Thus, Sparrow's "party or principle" belies his previous heavy involvement with Occupy and the movement to end homelessness - and it didn't hurt that Mr. Carney claims significant input in suggesting Sparrow's three words as well. "Count All Rankings" is a suggestion that only allowing three rankings in our RCV is disenfranchising to way too many voters; it's a notion with which I tend to sympathize. In our technological age, the fact that we can't see to come up with a system that allows us to rank more than three candidates is a little suspect. I found a blog entry written by Kristin Rafferty detailing some seriously scandalous (if true) behaviour from the former "Chuck from Occupy" - the words "massage" and "pimp" appear a few times - so as much fun as the AP can have calling out the guy with the funny name, perhaps it should be reiterated that it can be terribly dangerous to cast that #1 vote for someone when you know so little about the candidate beyond their name...whether that name be Captain Jack Sparrow or Christopher Robin Zimmerman. (For what it's worth, Rafferty offered up Mr. Wilson as someone deserving another look when preparing your rankings. I would respectfully disagree with her on this point.) In his Star Tribune profile, he mentions using eminent domain to get foreclosed/bank-owned houses occupied by the homeless, decriminalizing drugs and prostitution (or massages?) and getting a vote on the stadium in accordance with the City Charter. I'm actually down with most of that. The only thing I'm not sure about is the eminent domain thing, but after reading more about Jaymie Kelly it's starting to sound like ...not the worst idea? (Having said all that...not sure how much of that the mayor can actually get done, but as always, the mayor can definitely get the conversations started.) I honestly can't tell you if I'd be a better mayor than this guy or not, but I feel fairly certain that I would. Am I right or wrong? It's YOUR vote! NEXT: One more homeless guy, who may or may not have also been bankrolled by Mr. Sparrow |