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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 7h

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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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 7h

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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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 9h

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.

Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 11h

In defense of his qualifications, he is very vertical.

Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 12h

I guess I got blocked too. And all I did was say facts. Fragile!

Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 14h

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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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 1d

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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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 1d

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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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 1d

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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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 1d

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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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 1d

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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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 1d

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?

Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 7d

I might force myself to watch it to see if it's worth filing a campaign finance complaint.

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah; that's where all the hypotheticals based solely on the vote data break down. There's one election instead of two, and the manner in which people campaign is different, as we've obviously seen with the slate for change this year, but also with the AOM Ward 10 slate in 2021.

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 1d

Though I do like to remind people that Fletcher was elected as the moderate choice, with preferences from the right, against the socialist who came in first, in the ward where we now seem to think Rainville is unbeatable.

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 1d

Fletcher (2017), Cunningham (2017), and Jenkins (2023) all moved from second place to first, but in a hypothetical two-round runoff in which all the same voters voted the same way, there would have been the same result.

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 1d

A Chughtai vs. Jones runoff would have at least been a close race. But also AOM could have pulled their heads out of their asses and not gotten behind three unelectable candidates. (Of course this all neglects the effect RCV has on the broader dynamics of an election, which are more significant.)

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 1d

If we're comparing RCV to the two-round runoff system that was in place before 2009, then I believe the only time it made a difference was Ward 10 in 2021, when Alicia Gibson moved up from third place into the final round, ahead of Katie Jones.

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 1d

And yet somehow the MPD recruitment ads are still going. I saw one last night on YouTube while viewing the Onion Epstein mockumentary. It did not inspire me to consider a career in law enforcement.

Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 1d

Even the Uptown landlords, generally not the brightest bulbs, seem to have _mostly_ decided to stop shit-talking the neighborhood a few months ago. Or maybe it was always the plan to cut down on that after the DFL ward conventions. (Has anyone heard a peep out of Andrea Corbin recently?)

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 2d

Do professional actors usually wing it? I believe I have heard of something called a script. Did she improvise her lines on Angel?

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 2d

And yes, people without stable homes have a right to vote and everything else, and there are rules for that situation, but that is not the Walls' or the Pohlads' problem.

Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 2d

I've never owned multiple houses, but I was a college student once who lived in a dorm and went back to my parents' house over the summer, and I figured this shit out. It's not hard. Have one place that you call home, and do it consistently. If you change it, change it everywhere. Easy.

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 2d

All of this is true, and also, none of it should be necessary, because people just shouldn't lie about where they live. There's a process donors can follow if they don't want their addresses revealed to the public, and it's pretty clear that many of them have just decided that it's easier to lie.

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 2d

Yep! Unfortunately it's much harder with candidate committees, since there are so many more donors.

And then of course there are people like the Walls who have an apartment in the city but don't primarily live there. (I think the Pohlads might actually have a condo in the Four Seasons building.)

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Minneapolis for the Many @mplsforthemany.com · 2d

The stakes of this election couldn’t be clearer. Are we going to bring back the progressive majority on city council and finally elect a mayor who will stand with renters?

Or will Brian Fitterer and his landlord pals funnel enough money to candidates like Frey, Millard and Shaffer to get their way?

Title text: "Frey, Millard, Shaffer and Trump Donor Brian Fitterer" above a screenshot from the Star Tribune reading, "In July, IPG agreed to a settlement in which the ompany must pay back more than $5 million in relief to tenants. Speakers on Tuesday pointed out Fitterer's ties to President Donald Trump. In 2020, Fitterer had donated over $500,000 to Trump's campaign, The Salt Lake Tribune reported at the time. He's also the owner of the swimwear company Kandy Wrappers, which had previously sponsored a Miss US contest that had been owned by Trump."

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