Was called the other night by Douglas Kress, a King Field resident who has
decided to run for the 10th ward council seat presumably vacated by Lisa
McDonald when she runs for mayor. That makes Doug the second candidate,
after Dan Niziolek. A lot of us have been surprised that in such an activist
ward, there have been so few announced DFL candidates.
Like Dan, it sounds like Doug is a current city employee, working on the
social-programs side with Way To Grow and the Youth Coordinating Board. (Dan
is a former CCP/SAFE officer now working for a program on crime prevention
through design.)
Among other personal and political details, Doug told me he will seek DFL
endorsement but has not yet decided to abide by the endorsement should
someone else get it. (He was calling me because I am a 10th ward delegate.
He also supports my change to city-year delegate selection.) He talked of a
more collaborative approach with neighborhood residents and leaders,
something Dan has also spoken of. I got the sense, given his current job,
that he believes the city has a strong role in social programs, and based on
his experience, he can help make those programs both efficient and
effective. There were a host of other issues we rattled through but I'll let
him speak for himself on those since we only touched on them briefly.
I offered him a chance to bring his candidacy "out of the closet" by sending
something to the Minneapolis-issues list, and he laughed and told me he is
out of the closet in one way already. Like Scott Benson in the 11th, Doug is
attempting to become only the second gay man, after Brian Coyle, to serve on
the Minneapolis City Council. He & his partner live in the 3900 block of
Garfield.
Doug is probably too busy phoning delegates for our March 31 ward
convention, so after giving him a couple of days to post I figured I'd just
blab it.
With the earliest DFL conventions less than six weeks away, it is time to
update our roster of races. This is not a complete list, but I know of
inter-party battles in at least four wards:
Ward 2: Brian Hanninen versus Joan Campbell
Ward 9: Michael Guest versus Kathy Thurber. (Gary Schiff is also running,
but I'm not sure if he's seeking DFL or Green endorsement or both.)
Ward 10: Kress versus Niziolek
Ward 12: Craig Larson versus Sandy Colvin Roy
Interparty races:
Ward 2: the Greens' Cam Gordon has announced
Ward 13: DFLer Greg Abbott will take on Independent Barret Lane
Other wards I'm not fully up to speed on:
Ward 6: Barb Lickness...has anyone else announced?
Ward 3: Joe Biernat versus the newspaper ad
Help me fill in the roster...if this list can't generate a complete list of
races, who can?
David Brauer
King Field - Ward 10
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