"but this article made them seem like viable candidates."
How is any Ward Ten candidate more "viable" than Mr. Savage? Harry has been doing a lot of door knocking and leaflet-dropping in the Ward. His leaflets/flyers come out against the ballpark and against the "condo-ization" of the Ward, two sentiments that find favor with many and probably the majority of the Ward (but not myself).
No other candidate, in my opinion, is a relatively "strong" candidate. Most of us lack City Hall experience, and those with experience lack, in my opinion, charisma and vision (or at least the ability to communicate it).
You can find past primary stats on the city's web page. It looks to me that, with six candidates running to win this seat, it will take about a thousand votes to get through the primary - maybe even less (and that's if a "whopping" 25% of already-registered voters bother to vote.). I've talked to a couple of dozen Savage supporters myself, just in my precinct and one precinct adjacent to it - they like his flyers, and they think his "Giuliani-style crackdown" idea is a real riot, to put it one way.
Sure, Harry was booed at the DFL convention, but how many voters does an all-day, city convention truly influence, especially when there is no endorsement?
Thank God for the community papers (and radio), who have been covering us all pretty even-handedly. And the Strib is profiling EVERY municipal candidate, no matter how "viable", both online (appearing soon) and in their pre-election supplement. That's a plus for democracy, I believe.
We (well, many of us) complain when candidates are shut-out of coverage and debates per "viability" at the national/federal level (believe me, having backed Nader back in '96, and Kucinich in '04), so why not err on the side of inclusion at the municipal level?
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