Eric Prindle
@ericprindle.bsky.social
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Minneapolis dad; liker of all the good things and disliker of all the bullshit; he/him
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Maybe I'm just going to spend this week filing campaign finance complaints. This one should be easy.
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True. It looks like the contribution was made in 2022, when Safer Hennepin's primary activity was in support of Martha Holton Dimick. We don't know yet who has contributed to the current effort, as they haven't filed a report since July of 2024. They did still have $12K on hand at that point.
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I believe this was after ABC restored Kimmel's show, but while Nexstar and Sinclair were still preempting it. Hubbard tried to have it both ways.
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Especially when it's almost always based on a content marketing piece from someone that just wants clicks to their website. This "award" was granted by Cintas, which sells mops and cleansers to janitors! Local news is just doing these companies' advertising for them.
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All true, but if you live in a residential neighborhood, there are generally going to be several of those nodes arrayed around you that you can walk to along quieter streets.
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The same broadcasting company that just ran a paid political advertorial without the required disclaimer? How very interesting.
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I never learned to ride a bike, and I swear I will one of these days, but when I do, I think that will be my order as well.
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When I got older, I'd walk a mile or two home from friends' houses. We had two cars! There were just some trips where walking made sense and was at least partially more pleasant. Undoubtedly some of that was generational, and cars are bigger and scarier now. But I do think there's a cultural piece.
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I grew up in an East Coast inner-ring suburb, in a small development wedged between a five-lane highway, a quarry, a creek and a freeway. When I was a kid, my mom would take us on walks to the mall. We walked through parking lots to avoid being right next to the highway.
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Sometimes I wonder whether, what with all the locking and unlocking, it really saves any time for shorter distances. Maybe, what with us being such a good bike city, it becomes some people's default mode, like driving is for others?
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One might hypothesize that transient voters are more likely to be young and/or renters, two groups that are more likely to support Fateh. In any case, we know from census data which neighborhoods have more transient populations, and it's generally the more progressive-voting areas.
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They are suggesting that the 2021 election is the best reference point for this election, and I don't disagree, but then they disclose that their 2021 turnout model is based solely on people who voted in 2021 and are still registered to vote in Minneapolis. That leaves out 16% who have moved.
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Actually it looks like "unweighted" might be the wrong term. The result I'm referring to appears to have been weighted to reflect the demographics of the entire registered voter population. It does not appear that they did a distribution for the raw survey results. It's all in this long memo.
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If you compare event rates at parking ramps to their proximity to the venues they serve, people will generally pay at least $10 to not have to walk a block.
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It is very weird! I am always surprised that even bike people, who are presumably not afraid of getting out of their cars and being among other people, will often bike extremely short distances instead of just walking.
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Mine! Distinguishing features being copious amounts of black pepper and nutmeg plus some other warm spices, a few drops of scorpion pepper sauce, peas as the only vegetable, and cream of chicken soup because I'm not a mushroom person.
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In defense of his qualifications, he is very vertical.
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I guess I got blocked too. And all I did was say facts. Fragile!
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The Minneapolis Mounted Patrol is out at the East Harriet Fall Festival, unmounted. We have not yet been encouraged to say their names.
A Minneapolis Mounted Police trailer with horses inside, parked in a field with officers nearby, interacting with community members.
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I feel like the lede we've all buried from the Hampton poll earlier this week is that the unweighted results show Fateh winning by seven points. And yeah; unweighted results are unreliable, but also, their best model (which showed Frey winning) was based on a voter file that was only 84% complete.
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I wonder if they looked at that definition before putting out a video 33 days before the election with the tagline, "It's all about what happens NEXT."
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Thanks for taking a look! And yes; that definition has some elements that give me hope.

If this were a state election, I'd also be looking at 10A.201 and 10A.202, but it's not, so I guess I shouldn't spend too much time thinking about those.
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I'm digging into the donation history of people who appeared in the video, and it looks like Fitzgerald is a Katie Cashman donor, which may put into context her feelings about appearing in a video that portrays Cashman as an unwitting stooge of socialist councilmembers.
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Kupchella has acknowledged that this was a paid placement, not a news program, funded by a group of donors, and it explicitly advocates against specific candidates by name, 33 days before all of them are up for election (and during the early voting period).
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So I finally wasted a half hour of my life watching "A Precarious State" on 2x. Law-talking folks and campaign finance watchers: Am I Becka/Becker levels of delusional to think that complaints against Kupchella (10A.14, 10A.20, 211B.04) and Hubbard (211B.05) might actually have legs?
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I might force myself to watch it to see if it's worth filing a campaign finance complaint.