Becka Thompson wins the Great Value Award for the council candidate with fewest dollars spent per vote received - $4.21. She still lost big to Aurin Chowdhury ($6.47). Shelley Madore ($62.31) outdid Lydia Millard ($42.59) for biggest spender per vote. Both of them lost big.

Worth reading Elle's thoughts on this case as someone who's much, MUCH better versed in criminal law, but this case is a great teaching tool to explain how "ineffective assistance of counsel" does not mean "you had a bad attorney." It *can* mean that, but it can also mean "my lawyer was ratfucked"

Here's an incredible election result that's being slept on: Duluth passed a first-in-the-state Tenants Right to Repair ordinance! TakeAction MN and its ascendant Duluth Tenants Union fought hard for this ballot question and won a huge victory for tenants rights in a market which really needs it

Minnesota Appellate Court Watch: somehow I missed the filing of this case back in March, but back in October the Court of Appeals heard arguments in the first-ever appellate review of the St. Paul Rent Stabilization ordinance.

Chowdhury was one of two council members to get more than 10,000 first-choice votes (Palmisano was the other). She got more votes than the winners of Wards 4, 5, and 6 combined. She's got this job as long as she wants it. Carol's cohort is neither silent nor a majority

For everyone who is celebrating my victory, please know I wish more than anything that Michael could be joining me on the MPRB. Not just because we share common goals and vision, but because he is a genuinely kind human being. He and his team helped carry my campaign when I was in the hospital.

Uptown Deathwatch: there's a soon to be vacant commercial space in Uptown, freshly painted with the finest purple paint money can buy. Hard not to blame Aisha Chughtai.

Michael ran a wonderful campaign, one that's about as selfless as possible. In my eyes, he centered the mission and knocked for other candidates who really needed it, incl. Jason Garcia and Ethrophic Burnett in the closing days of the election. Our city is better even just for his efforts. Thank you

Park Board, for sickos 🧵. It’s an unofficial 5-3-1 progressive majority, which is great. The Jamal Osman Trophy For Key Swing Vote goes to new D3 commissioner Kedar Deshpande. Why is the 6th vote swing? Because it will be needed to override Frey’s vetoes on Park Board money votes. 1/

Final Park Board results give us Forney, Olsen, and Frederick. By the last round, Frederick widens her lead over Wilson for the third spot, actually increasing her lead from 1.6% to 2.9%. I was pulling for Michael Wilson. So impressed by both him and his campaign. I hope he keeps at it.

I put it in a reply, but I want to pull it out: even if Jazz voters broke for Fateh at the same rate as Davis voters, Fateh still loses My math shows that would've pulled Fateh to a 1,463 deficit, making it Frey 47.9% to Fateh 47% Not calling out the original poster. It's a genuinely interesting

The RCV diagrams and data are up vote.minneapolismn.gov/results-data...

Carol Becker waited until Frey's victory was announced to create another burner specifically to antagonize the progressives. This is just weak shit. If you don't have the bravery to troll from behind, you don't deserve to gloat.

That's it. Margin of victory: 8,346. Tough to know because of the fringe candidates, so this is likely a high estimate, but it seems like could be as many as ~4,700 exhausted Davis or Hampton ballots. Not enough to make the difference. It really was Davis/Frey and Jazz/Frey voters

Eric's elucidation of the Median Voter meme, as "There will always be at least one voter who does some weird thing that makes no sense," is something we should all hold close as we fumble around in the dark while elections officials do math

THEY GAVE LINA KAHN A MUNICIPAL GUNDAM

The time is NOW to get involved in your local DFL unit. If you want to see change in the DFL, change will only happen from within, not by complaining on social media. At a more basic level, we simply need more volunteers, to run caucuses and conventions, and to win elections.

With this election over, my next organizing projects are 1) coalition building for the DFL, to build our bench to win in 2026 and 2) resisting the Minneapolis Charter Commission's efforts to weaken the separation of powers.🧵

Smarter people than me can do more to analyze Amber Frederick's performance overall, but the very clear driver in her outperformance against Michael Wilson is a huge performance in Southwest. ~95% of her lead over Wilson can be attributed to Wards 11 and 13

The St. Louis County Meg Forney signs really put the Ward 9 Jamison Whiting Sign to shame

Here's my oversimplified Park Board analysis, roughly color coded for the people running on 3 hrs of sleep like me. Three centrist-to-left pickups, two centrist holds, a bad seat upgraded to a mixed bag, a mixed bag to a progressive, a strong progressive downgraded to a prob good but moderate voice

It's understandably a bit lost in the shuffle right now, but the Administrative Citations ballot question in St. Paul passed by a huge margin!! This is an incredible result for good governance and effective city administration! St. Paul can fine slumlords now! It can hit the Most Hated CVS!

I wonder if Melvin Carter's chances would've been better had the St. Paul DFL bothered to hold a convention and issue an endorsement. My guess is yes!

refreshing John Wall’s next door profile to feel something

no, you see, you're all missing the #1 predictive Minneapolis election heuristic: every candidate I represented in court won, and every candidate I beat lost

Progressive overflow party at Eagles #34, pass it on

By my admittedly rushed math, it seems like Fateh needs about 71% of the Davis/Jazz vote to break his way. Seems tough, but not impossible

Finally get to use this stupid image I made right when I got home from the city convention

I am really heartbroken over Katie Cashman's defeat. This is a massive loss for the City, for the progressive bench in the state. But I'll take Aisha Chughtai's win as a salve. The ghouls can't take all of us.

All our homies hate Becka Thompson

JASON GARCIA LIKELY PARK BOARD COMMISSIONER

Results just came in. It shows Frey with 60,735 votes, Fateh with 46,131 votes, Davis with 19,971 votes, and Hampton with 15,119 votes.

Hot tip for the Fateh party: park at Mondale Hall at the end of the street. Much easier in and out.

manifesting this tonight

Turnout numbers are up through 5 PM. We are already at the second highest turnout for a Minneapolis municipal election in history, and there's still a few hours left. (1/2)

May I advise a Get Out The Vote shift in this trying time?

It really is a good day to vote or have voted.

Little Pete and Tommy Duncan say "Vote for Omar Fateh"

Today, we celebrate our Election Day by paying tribute to one of the cycles strongest soldiers, the Ward 9 Jamison Whiting sign, standing resolute all these months later

me when I'm checking out after fighting for my life Costco and my kid asks if we can go to the aquarium after

I've spent a lot of time mulling over the Bush years. I always believed it could get worse than that, but I remember thinking around 2009 that it couldn't get much dumber than that period of history. I was wrong. So, so wrong.

If you have the means, absolutely recommend you look for a ticket for David Byrne’s second night at the Orpheum in Mpls tomorrow. It was every bit as great as the 2018 tour and then some. Easily one of the best shows you’ll ever see.

It's election season in St Paul. Every few years the whole town gets together to debate the pressing political questions of our time -- Is a small business an autonomous nation? Do garbage cans have rights? If I'm rich enough, do I own the street in front of my house?

If you're also going to David Byrne show Downtown, you legally have to tell me.

I exorcised some of my pre-election anxiety by running some numbers to see which candidates were spending the highest percentage of their campaign's cash. It should surprise no one that, of all the campaigns not going into debt on their campaign, Michael Baskins is the most efficient spender of cash

Minnesota Appellate Court Watch: Alpha News has appealed the second denial of its request for the body cam footage for former state senator Nicole Mitchell's arrest. But it's a bit weird procedurally to me. My guess is that they're really just pursuing an appeal in hopes of winning attorneys fees

The r/Minneapolis centrist playbook to railing against rent control: (1) Here is a study. I will cherrypick select findings and read in the worst-possible light (2) Here is some terrible junk data which I will defend to the death (3) Doesn't matter if people want it; they're stupid animals

the best sandwich I've ever had was literally every shitty meatball sub from a run-down sandwich shop in New England. it is the stupidest sandwich in the world and I would order two of them right now, just like Gary Busey in Point Break