Lydia Millard spent more on purple paint in July than Aisha Chughtai's entire list of expenditures for that month. And yet still lost by 22 points.

the post-general campaign finance report was due yesterday, so here are my favorite expenditures of this city election season taylordahlin.com/f/best-campa...

As someone whose spent a decade-plus covering social services in NY and TX, let me say this has nothing to do with immigration — and everything to do with government outsourcing delivery of key services to non-profits it cannot properly supervise and politics: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...

On the same weekend that Carol Becker was concern trolling on the lack of diversity in local politics, she was using one of her several reddit accounts to defend a claim (made by Becka Thompson) that white candidates are disadvantaged because council members of color win based on their race.

I was thinking about the squandered political career of Andrea Jenkins as she fades off into the sunset.

I tried to hide, but something broke I tried to sing, couldn't hit the notes The words kept catching in my throat I tried to smile, I was suffocating though

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

We told our seven-year-old that there's a play called Waiting for Godot about two guys waiting for someone named Godot, and she was like, "And then at the end Godot shows up?," and we said we weren't going to ruin the ending for her, (1/2)

OK; I figured out how to make some maps. Have patience with me; I'm self-taught. (If anyone knows how to get rid of the irrelevant sections of CD5, let me know.) Anyway, here's Frey vs. Fateh, also known as Kenwood vs. Cedar-Riverside.

As others have mentioned, we now have the Cast Vote Record for the Minneapolis mayoral election. I'm going to be doing a good bit of digging into this, but I'll start with the big question: How would DeWayne Davis or Jazz Hampton have done in a final round against Jacob Frey?

In case anyone is wondering how Thrive's sophisticated targeting of U of M students went, here is a complete list of precincts where Frey received a lower vote percentage than Donald Trump: • 2-2 (portion of Marcy-Holmes) • 2-4 (most of East Bank) • 2-6 (Stadium Village) • 6-3 (Cedar-Riverside)

So many people seem to be misunderstanding how human beings vote. We’re not automatons. We’re motivated by emotion, connection, and our own goals. Assuming everyone will line up behind you because you think you have some perfect analysis is never going to be a realistic outcome.

Hi Minnesotan Bluesky: The DFL has a well-known transphobia problem. I'm organizing to change the party platform in 2026 to be explicitly supportive of trans people in Minnesota. This will provide a basis for expelling transphobia from our party. Join me: abetterdfl.org.

My post-election thoughts and an open letter to the backroom cabal who selects our candidates for mayor.

worth noting that jason garcia's victory in district 4 was achieved with no yard signs and only a handful of rally signs around. this shows that lawn signs are not an indicator of how an election is going to go! same with ward 10, people thought aisha chughtai was in trouble and lydia would win

CONCLUSION There is a very, very high chance that your first choice on your park board at-large ballot will be the ONLY THING THAT COUNTS. It's really not that common for your second and third choices to matter. So think hard about your first choice! 9/9

It's been two days since the election, and I'm still picking up Lydia Millard's garbage. Did she run out of Trump-donor money to pay people to pick up her garbage?

This is nice to see after the right poured so much money into Millard. Looking at it precinct by precinct, I do see some shifts. Warsame got most of his votes in 10-7 and 10-8 (central Whittier). 10-8 in particular had barely more turnout this year, so some of Warsame's voters may have stayed home.

The kids put in a GOTV shift. Sorry if they rang your doorbell too many times. (Who am I kidding? This is Minneapolis. Your doorbell doesn't work.)

I was voter #276 in Minneapolis 10-5. To revive the recent "why does nobody walk here" discourse, it's a beautiful day, and people were getting in and out of their cars to vote at a polling place at the exact center of a small precinct where nobody lives more than a half mile away.

Curious question: Has anyone encountered Working America (AFL-CIO affiliate) in the field in Minneapolis? On their campaign finance report for the period ending Oct. 20, they reported spending over $37K, half supporting Kay Carvajal Moran and half supporting the at-large Park Board DFL slate.

Minneapolis parents: With Election Day being a school release day, is anyone canvassing with kiddos tomorrow? My kids are interested, and I signed up for a shift. Anyone have any experience doing this?

I’m asking everyone to vote for a new Mayor by Tuesday and rank all 3 of Omar Fateh, Dewayne Davis, and Jazz Hampton in whichever order you prefer. I’ve worked at City Hall for the last 4 years and from my personal experiences I believe the City desperately needs a new mayor. Long thread 🧵

i have been frustrated both at the conservative DFL / republican alliance in support of jacob frey this year and at the media's ignoring it, especially when we are expected to come together as DFL for statewide elections next year taylordahlin.com/f/minneapoli...

I'm gonna go for (relative) optimism. I may be wrong. I will not be entirely surprised if I am very, very wrong. If I'm right, I will be mostly happy.

Here's an interesting trend I noticed in the Minneapolis early voting stats: With one day left, the wards with the biggest dropoffs in early voting relative to 2021 are precisely the wards with the most competitive city council races: 2, 10, 7, and 5.

Barf. Here's the "Team Mpls" plan to “address climate change.” No mention of getting off fossil fuels. Nothing on electrification. Nothing on renewable energy, transit or building housing near transit. Just trees and carbon capture(?). This fluff could have been written by the Koch Bros (1/2)

steve minn has said that he voted for donald trump three times, and his company lupe developmment gave safer hennepin $25k for them to send mailers calling for republicans to vote for jacob frey the media not writing about the conservative DFL / republican alliance this year is a failure!

Remember when the MPD poured tens of thousands of dollars into finding out who was keying Teslas and then threw the book at him, but ignored the cries for help from Davis Moturi and Mariah Samuels, one of whom ended up dead and the other with life altering injuries? Cause I do.

We choose to live and raise our families in Minneapolis. We work hard for the city that we love. Now, we need a Mayor who works as hard as we do. We have a shot to build the city we need right now. Get to the polls by Nov 4 and vote for new leadership. secure.actblue.com/donate/fateh...

This Jacob Hill quote gives away the Frey team‘s true mission: to control the Minneapolis politics from the outside. Their motivation is not the betterment of Minneapolis citizens. Their profit-driven cause is about the full metro area economy - to help both Republicans and Democrats get rich.

This letter from Hennepin County Commissioner Irene Fernando is utterly damning. Jacob Frey has failed on the one issue he has made central to his argument: that he can keep the people of Minneapolis safe. www.hennepind2.com/statements/2...

Since the last election, a secret network of 24 McDonald’s owners has spent over $100,000 to back Jacob Frey and his allies. 5 of them are out-of-state and only 2 of them live in Minneapolis! All with deep pockets, willing to spend big to tip the scales of this election.

Minneapolis Police Department Leadership have names. Brian O’Hara, Todd Barnette and Jacob Frey. These are the people who failed, again.

The Guardian wrote about the Minneapolis mayoral race. It's not bad, as these things go. Great cover photo choice.

The reason Mayor Frey created the role of community safety commissioner is so the name Jacob Frey never appears in stories like this. kstp.com/accountabili...

What the fuck is this official MN DFL mailer showing a seemingly random selection of endorsed candidates? Only one of 3 at large parks endorsees, and Bob Fine but not Steve Brandt? Is the DFL just trolling us at this point?

Nobody should take Shaffer seriously as a candidate of fiscal responsibility. She repeatedly left free money on the table from other government entities in her role as a park commissioner. Money that would've been used to implement a long range plan, add park space, improve accessibility.

Now that the mayoral campaign finance reports are up, I'm updating my analysis of Lydia Millard's "independence." Of the money she has raised: • At least 42% comes from Frey donors. • 1% comes from Davis donors. • Less than 1% comes from Hampton donors. • No known amount comes from Fateh donors.

Minneapolis campaign finance reporting may be down, but the state has uploaded pre-general reports for the PACs that are spending obscene and less obscene amounts of money to influence city elections. All reports are available at this link by searching on each PAC by name as I provide it. 🧵

Minneapolis has become a tale of two cities. One for the wealthy and well connected, and one for all of us — the renters, transit riders, and working families who are left with vetoes and broken promises. We need a Mayor who stands with working people, and works as hard as we do.

The era of big money in city elections is relatively new. Frey and crew raise gobs of dough, do polls and focus groups and message testing. And TV ads. Lots of consultants get paid. But if you’re Mayor of a city like Minneapolis, do you need a poll to know which way the wind blows?

elizabeth shaffer keeps doing this lucille bluth thing of minimizing sums of money that are not insignificant to large swaths of ward 7. "it's only $600" to renter in a tier 3 building, and now, more than $40k spent on her by corporate PACs while katie cashman gets none bsky.app/profile/tayl...

Worth a read: a letter in a paper in Alexandria says Kupchella sucks, Minneapolis rocks www.echopress.com/opinion/lett...

They would like to discuss ANYTHING other than the Minneapolis Police and Mayor Frey thwarting and trying to defund our city auditor, one of the only flimsy watchdog for this dept under TWO consent decrees and multiple high profile failures in the last year.

Lydia Millard seems to lie very easily and readily. She says what people want to hear, not what her actual feeling is, and that, alone, is disqualifying. It's like the stereotype of every bad politician. Lisa Goodman vibes (derogatory).

Not holding my breath to see whether Deena and her editors at the Strib deem it newsworthy that the City Auditor found that Frey has created an environment ripe for fraud with his resistance to oversight and accountability.

Minneapolis City Auditor Robert Timmerman: "Great resistance" from MPD in cooperating with after action reviews, even after speaking with "well over a dozen senior leaders to explain... the requirements of them and their staff to cooperate."

lydia millard expressing support for building a data center in ward 10 wasn't a clumsy answer. she had a plan, she said it would create jobs, she knew exactly how many acres brooklyn park had purchased for theirs! she didn't misspeak. she was very clear about it bsky.app/profile/tayl...