I am enthusiastically looking forward to casting my vote for Farheen in the
primary on Tuesday. Unfortuantely, I will not be here in November to vote
for her in the general election, as I have taken a job in New Mexico, but it
will be an excellent personal send off to vote for a woman that has shown
extreme intengrity in her committment to the values of peace, justice, and
liberation.
As a candidate, Farheen has consistently drawn the conversation back to the
people most affected by the politics and policies of this city. When RT and
Peter have jumped on the stump and began harping about the need for more
police on the streets of Minneapolis, it has been Farheen that has reminded
us that people turn to crime when they are unable to find legal means to
meet their needs, when their lives have become some spiritually and
economically depressed that in order to survive they must turn to
extra-legal means to sustain themselves and their families, and that adding
more police to the streets does nothing but excite a legal system already
responsible for propping up a racist judicial system and the over
incarceration of youth and people of color. Farheen has again and again
reminded us that the work of the Mayor is to make the city a livable,
viable, vibrant place for all of its citizens and not just the
ex-suburbanites that have a taste for river front living in overpriced condo
projects that do squat to alleviate the affordable housing crisis that still
exists amongst the working class in this metro area.
It is beyond time that Minneapolis had a Mayor that did more than just touch
on now and again the mass of individuals that make the wealth of this city
possible. Farheen is a Mayor that would by hook or by crook push this city
to a place where the "least" are given the real possibility of not just
surivival but triumph.
-Brandon Lacy Campos
-Loring Park
Writer, Poet, Playwright, and Rabble Rouser....
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