All residents of Minneapolis will be asked to decide on the new mayor of Minneapolis. Minneapolis uses Ranked Choice Voting to decide.
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Minneapolis Mayoral Candidates
Jacob Frey (Incumbent) – DFL
Public Health: Not addressed.
Housing: focused on 4 pillars: production of new affordable housing units, presentation of existing affordable housing units, protection of renters’ rights, creating more pathways and opportunities for affordable homeownership.
Youth Development: Not addressed.
Ethnic Studies: Not addressed.
Jobs & Economy: center BIPOC and immigrants as partners and decision-makers; focus on policies to expand opportunity for all.
Public Safety: supported a both-and approach to community-led public safety solutions beyond traditional policing, as well as working alongside Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) leadership to build a better and more accountable department.
Nate “Honey Badger” Atkins – Libertarian Party
Public Health: Minneapolis should identify a location for a mental health hospital, connected to a city-run homeless facility, where individuals experiencing homelessness or mental health crises can be provided adequate resources in a safe, and controlled environment.
Housing: No longer permit homeless to occupy city parks or city property in Minneapolis.
Youth Development: Not addressed.
Ethnic Studies: Not addressed.
Jobs & Economy: Not addressed.
Public Safety: End qualified immunity, require police to carry liability insurance, decriminalize all drug use, possession, and sales. Create local, neighborhood level watch/security groups.
A.J. (Abdisaned) Awed – DFL
Public Health: Not addressed.
Housing: The city must lead and support actions and efforts that provide for more public housing, rent control, unique developments, and special supports for post-pandemic needs.
Youth Development: Not addressed.
Ethnic Studies: Not addressed.
Jobs & Economy: Entrepreneurship and creativity are at the heart of every neighborhood in the city and make them unique – and we must oppose gentrification or displacement without comprehensive consultation and support from neighborhoods and marginalized communities.
Public Safety: Convene the people of the city together – through a “Citizen’s Assembly” process – to recommend a new model of public safety for the city.
Clint Conner – DFL
Public Health: Not addressed.
Housing: We cannot pledge to provide affordable housing while ignoring powerful landlords who disregard city code and the well-being of their tenants.
Youth Development: Not addressed.
Ethnic Studies: Not addressed.
Jobs & Economy: Small businesses are critically important to the economic health of our minority and immigrant communities and they facilitate cultural interconnectedness in our city.
Public Safety: We need the Minneapolis Police Department to help keep us safe, and we need a Mayor who will make the police department better.
Marcus Globus – DFL
Public Health: Not addressed.
Housing: Not addressed.
Youth Development: Not addressed.
Ethnic Studies: Not addressed.
Jobs & Economy: I am a person with a marketing driven mentality that can make certain that Minneapolis is getting more than its fair share of business deals and job creating transactions and opportunities.
Public Safety: A new dialogue must be opened between communities of color and law enforcement. The tremendous trust gap that currently exists with law enforcement is not sustainable.
Kate Knuth – DFL
Public Health: The health of our communities is an environmental, racial, and social justice issue that demands all of us to rise up to advance the health and well-being of everyone in our city right now.
Housing: We have a responsibility to make sure we are moving unhoused people toward stable housing and increasing access to sustainable affordable housing options for every person and family, especially those with low-incomes, renters, retired and elderly people, people with disabilities, citizens returning from incarceration, and anyone else facing systemic barriers to housing.
Youth Development: Not addressed.
Ethnic Studies: Not addressed.
Jobs & Economy: We need to build an economy that works for every worker—where everyone makes a living wage and can join a union. Our city must be willing to protect and prioritize the lowest paid and most marginalized workers.
Public Safety: Together, we can build a public safety and critical-response system designed for what our city needs now—one that promotes health and well-being, prevents and interrupts violence and prevents crime, and is transparent and accountable to every part of the community it serves.
Sheila June Nezhad – DFL
Public Health: Public health means equitable access to healthy food, clean air, healthy relationships, mental and physical healthcare.
Housing: As a renter, Sheila supports rent control, so renters and small businesses can afford to stay in our city.
Youth Development: I would support more childcare funding for schools and parks, especially for summer, afterschool, and weekend programming.
Ethnic Studies: I would also fight for the city to provide increased culturally competent, multilingual training for people who wish to become licensed childcare providers, with the goal of every family being able to find and afford a neighborhood childhood care provider.
Jobs & Economy: I believe the city should be providing direct economic relief to service workers who have lost their income due to the pandemic, as well as undocumented residents, sex workers, and other residents who are forbidden from receiving federal income assistance.
Public Safety: As mayor, Sheila will fight to end police violence and build safety through: demilitarization, decriminalization, building alternatives, and addressing the underlying conditions that cause violence and harm.
Laverne Turner – Republican
Public Health: Not addressed.
Housing: Prevent abusive slumlords and enact reasonable rent control policy.
Youth Development: • More community oriented recreational and career building programs for youth.
Ethnic Studies: Removing Critical Race Theory from any city managed operations or policy.
Jobs & Economy: Immediate and total re-opening of Minneapolis while restoring safety and commerce to Downtown Minneapolis.
Public Safety: More funding for Minneapolis Police Department for more officers and resources for a growing population.
Kevin “No Body” Ward – Independent
Public Health: Not addressed.
Housing: Not addressed.
Youth Development: Make an effort to increase the percentage of our infrastructure budget to build more locations that offer recreational activities for children, particularly in neighborhoods with high crime rates.
Ethnic Studies: Not addressed.
Jobs & Economy: Not addressed.
Public Safety: decriminalize (or refuse to waste the safety officers valuable time going after at least what are known as “entheogenic plants and fungi,” and would like to decriminalize non-violent drug crimes, with the notable exceptions; take “weapons of deadly force” away from the MPD, and only allow safety officers to use rubber bullets, bean bag rounds, tasers, night sticks, mace, etc.
Mike Winter – Independent-Alliance
Public Health: Tackle mental health
Housing: Improve affordable housing
Youth Development: youth programming as an alternative measure to control crime.
Ethnic Studies: Not addressed.
Jobs & Economy: Focus on Downtown Minneapolis business revitalization, provide incentives to keep commerce within the boundaries of Minneapolis, continue to rebuild Lake Street
Public Safety: Increase the number of uniformed officers, give residency incentives to police who choose to work where they live, encourage regular training and mental counselling for all officers, add crisis counsellors, use alternative measures to control crime.
Troy Benjegerdes – Farmer-Labor
Bob “Again” Carney Jr – Republican
Marcus Harcus – Grassroots-Legalize-Cannabis
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