I appreciate the interest, Dave. We're anticipating the cast vote record as well and plan to look into it when it's released. I think the answer will ultimately hinge on if there's anything new in the results that adds to our understanding of the election.

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I'm not arguing that this PAC is irrelevant, or not worth scrutiny. It was simply out of the scope of this story.

Why we didn't mention Thrive by name - The story focuses on individual donors to each candidate in Mpls and what that tells us about the state of the race. We mention the money from PACs to provide context about the total amount of money in the race. The donations to Thrive didn't change that total.

We couldn't count those donations in the total because that would effectively be counting $105k in donations to All of Mpls twice.

As to why we mentioned We Love Minneapolis - although this group disbanded, it still raised considerable funds and the story looks at fundraising over the past year.

Thanks for the feedback. I'm happy to answer questions about our reporting decisions for this story.

We did pull data from all the PACs supporting candidates in this election, and that's reflected on the last chart in the story. Thrive PAC disclosed only donations from All of Minneapolis.

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