Becka has the gall to call other people "low information" while complaining about the "massive disservice" done to her preferred candidate by... the randomized algorithm used in all nonpartisan elections. Bye, Karen. www.sos.mn.gov/elections-vo...

In Saint Paul, it seems that incumbent mayor Melvin Carter may be in trouble. He's up 1,603 votes over challenger Kaohly Her, but there are 12K+ votes under other conservative challengers Hillborn and Chen. Will this be the revenge of rich assholes on Summit? It's possible.

So I know (more than most) how dangerous it can be to do back-of-the-envelope ranked choice predictions, but here's a take on the Mpls mayor's race anyway. Frey needs to get about 32% of second choices to win. Fateh needs 68% or more. MAJOR CAVEAT: the precinct that hasn't reported is 12-2.

I don't believe in hell but I'm willing to make an exception for Dick Cheney.

Voter 363 in Saint Paul precinct 1-4 at 5:30pm. Seems like a relatively low-turnout affair here.

Melvin, Yes, Yes.

On election eve, I want to share a thread from the last podcast on Behavioral Crisis Response, a non-police response to appropriate 911 calls. It’s personal to me because I have family who have experienced crisis. That Frey worked to sabotage, rather than accelerate, BCR - and then claims credit - 🤬

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)

here are my recommendations for mayor, city council, park board, and BET for tuesday! and this was a good excuse to share some photos from covering campaigns this year taylordahlin.com/f/2025-minne...

I waited to listen to this because I did not want to give this guy that much space in my head, but it’s a great recent-history reminder from Jesse and @robingarwood.bsky.social and @camgordon.bsky.social. (My schadenfreude got me through it.)

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...

Having worked on the inside to pass the 2040 Plan: Jacob is worse than useless.

This is truly awful. Terrible, exclusionary language in any campaign. But Josh is using this attack against a guy who was literally maimed by the MPD, and has chosen to try to give back to a town that did him significant harm. In that context, this "is he even from here" shit is inexcusable.

My friends at Mill City Hall and I have recorded a two-part deep dive into Jacob Frey, including his time on the Council and his two terms as mayor. You can find the first half here: millcityhall.com/episodes/202....

Sure seems like the general vibe of Rep. Her's campaign is "wasn't Saint Paul great back in the Norm Coleman and Randy Kelly days?" No, those days were awful. This approach *created* many of the problems Saint Paul has today - including the widespread street disrepair Her has decried.

I will not be ranking Kaohly Her for mayor of Saint Paul. Asked about the Summit Ave regional trail, she said a bunch of critical nonsense capped by “I will look at the project and reevaluate it.” I agree with Adam Dullinger: that was such a bullshit answer. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

The most recent episode of Mill City Hall is up. Jesse, Cam and I discuss the independent Minneapolis Park Board and Board of Estimate and Taxation. Check it out if you care about taxes and parks!

Permanent fencing is a giant admission of failure, being all out of ideas, and not caring about the impact on mobility.

The most recent episode of Mill City Hall explores homelessness and the dehumanizing rhetoric and tactics being used on both the federal and local level, with special guests Flannery Clark and Frank. You can listen here: millcityhall.com/episodes/202...

Along with the horror and grief for the children killed and wounded at Annunciation church and school, I feel enraged. Gun manufacturers and dealers profited off of every gun the shooter had, every bullet fired at those children. They are complicit.

It's time to return professionalism to the Council by steamlining permitting and ordinance headaches.

This is so funny to me as someone who worked for a guy who represented Ward 2 for sixteen years. He wore the exact same green sweater the entire time.

I mean, I completely agree: fuck Frey, fuck fascism, and fuck Trump. These should not be particularly controversial takes.

Having been there for the fight for $15 (serving one of the CMs who was enthusiastically supportive, Cam Gordon), both the Frey apologist's initial attempt to take credit for the minimum wage and this rebuttal (which I generally agree with) lack some revealing detail.

A new episode of Mill City Hall is up! In it, we discuss conservatism in Minneapolis. Are there "conservatives" here, even if they call themselves something else? What does conservatism look like on the municipal level, and how is it different from, say, the national context?

A new episode of Mill City Hall is up: millcityhall.com/episodes/202... It features special guest - and actual DFL City Convention delegate! - angela olson. (Apologies for the slow posting - I've been canoeing the Sunrise river and have had limited connectivity.)

My dad, Seth Garwood, killed himself twenty years ago. It's a strange milestone. I have a sense that it should feel momentous, but somehow it doesn't.

Mpls political historians put the Frey loss in context. You have to go back 81 YEARS to find a similarly brutal failure. Put another way: Joe Biden was an infant when this last occurred.

When thinking about Omar Fateh winning the DFL endorsement this weekend, it's useful to know some context: A challenger has not won the DFL endorsement against an incumbent mayor in at least this century. I'll leave it to others with longer memories to say if it has EVER happened.

There's a new episode of Mill City Hall, the podcast I now co-host with my friends @jk9.bsky.social and Cam Gordon. You can find it here: millcityhall.com/episodes/202...

I'm part of a new podcast with my friends @jk9.bsky.social and Cam Gordon, called Mill City Hall. If you're interested in that sort of hyper-local political analysis, check it out. The most recent episode is about this year's Council races: millcityhall.com/episodes/202...