Isn't it Hennepin County, not City Hall that issues marriage licenses for Minneapolis?
Meaning: the decision whether or not to emulate San Francisco is not up to RT, but instead it's up to our Republican-controlled Hennepin County Board. IMHO none of the following four commissioners would vote to permit same-sex license applications (in apparent violation of state law): Steele, Johnson, Koblick, Stenglein. And I have my doubts about whether Mike Opat would be willing to do so.
So that's 4-2 against (with Dorfman and McLaughlin in favor), and Opat abstaining (in my hypothetical world).
In any event, it's a county issue not a city issue.
BTW, I think San Francisco has merged both levels of government, as in "The City and County of San Francisco."
Greg Abbott
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