November 8, 2006 – 8:51 pm
Last night’s election results in the Fourth Ward, on the City’s west side, were shameful. Jon Denison, a candidate who didn’t campaign, didn’t show up at public meetings, didn’t speak, write, or communicate positions on any issues, received a winning percentage over candidate Victor Summa, who has repeatedly demonstrated deep and sincere (albeit sometimes loud [...]
November 8, 2006 – 5:29 pm
Ray Cox (lost) and Tom Neuville (won) followed the election returns at Ray’s house last night, along with a group of their supporters. Oh, and their blog coach was invited, too. Click photos to enlarge.
Left: Ray with Greg Carlson, Carlson Capital Management, and former 25B House Representative John Tuma, now a lobbyist for the [...]
November 8, 2006 – 12:53 pm
N.org posted some of the local race results this morning, but here are some other of the area’s contested races:
COUNTY SHERIFFRICHARD COOK 11970MARK MURPHY 9643
School District Question 1YES 6389NO 5132
School District Question 2YES 5963NO 5481
MAYOR CITY OF DundasCHAD MARKS 220GLENN SWITZER 208
DUNDAS CITY COUNCIL (Elect 2)JOHN ZANDER [...]
November 7, 2006 – 6:43 am
See the N.org elections page for all the details and links.
My voting scorecard:
CITY COUNCIL MEMBER AT LARGE Nonpartisan NOAH A. CASHMAN
School district referenda: Yes on both
STATE SENATOR DISTRICT 25Republican THOMAS M. (TOM) NEUVILLE
STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 25BRepublican RAY COX
COUNTY COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 2Nonpartisan BETSEY BUCKHEIT
COUNTY SHERIFFNonpartisan MARK MURPHY [...]
November 6, 2006 – 9:44 pm
Our favorite local radio station, KRLX 88.1 FM, is sending out a team of reporters tomorrow night to local election return hotspots — city hall, county courthouse, pubs, private parties — who’ll then phone-in their reports to the live broadcast throughout the evening. It all starts at 8 pm. See the details on the [...]
October 30, 2006 – 10:05 pm
Retiring Northfield City Council Member Dixon Bond was our studio guest this week, discussing the pertinent issues for the upcoming city and county elections.
Right: KRLX Business Director (and Locally Grown producer) Mathias Bell with Station Manager Adam Carr. Click photos to enlarge.
Click play to listen (30 minutes). You can also subscribe to the podcast feed, [...]
October 27, 2006 – 3:16 pm
Well…Griff and Tracy really wanted to do an election show. I was trying to avoid the challenge of adding something meaningful to the mix as well as the mud-slinging that seems to dominate so much of our national discussion of issues real or created. However, they got their way and we’re doing an election show [...]
October 21, 2006 – 1:26 pm
Northfield’s LWV and the Cannon River Watershed Partnership are co-sponsoring two public events consisting of a candidate forum/moderated panel discussion. Candidates who have been invited to attend are are:
MN Senate District 36: Pat Pariseau, Carolyn Sampson
MN Senate District 25: Tom Neuville, Jessica Peterson
MN House District 36B: Pat Garofalo, Paul Hardt
MN House District 25B: David [...]
October 21, 2006 – 5:30 am
I’m really bugged that, to my knowledge, none of the candidates for any of our local races — Northfield City Council, Rice County Commissioner and Northfield School Board — have web sites, let alone blogs or podcasts. It forces us citizens to rely solely on A) the Northfield News; and B); face to face events [...]
October 20, 2006 – 10:21 pm
Sean Hayford O’Leary IM’d me about this cool tool on MPR’s website: Select a candidate.
By answering a series of questions about major issues, you can quickly learn which candidates are most closely aligned with your views. You’ll be able to learn more about each candidate, hear his/her positions on many issues, and find out how [...]
October 20, 2006 – 1:01 am
I’m pro-choice. I have no doubts that our globe is warming due to the fossil fuel addiction of homo-sapiens. I’m very much against any attempts to pass a State Constitutional Amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman. On those issues, I’m liberal.
And yet I’m voting for conservative Tom Neuville for [...]
October 19, 2006 – 9:10 am
Lt. Governor Carol Molnau was in town this morning. I took this photo of her with the gang of morning regulars at The Bittersweet in the Archer House. She was stumping for Gov. Pawlenty and the Vote Yes transportation amendment.
In the photo, L to R: Unidentified Guy, Dan Freeman, Tom Neuville, Carol Molnau, Dick [...]
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