Part of this plan includes cooperative housing and collective businesses, starting with homeless and unemployed individuals. If you have internet access, (If not I will provide a printed version), please read the other posts on my blog,, to see my ideas about alleviating poverty while saving the taxpayers’ money at the same time. I believe terrorism, (including terrorism committed by our country), is the fourth most important problem facing the people of our planet. I believe we should adopt the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) in place of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) because it is a more accurate method of measuring Progress, and by doing so it will help to protect the environment. If we hope to rid the world of the threat of terrorism this will be a necessary requirement. If we hope to bring the standard of living of the rest of world up to anything approaching the standard of living of many of the countries of the developed nations, then we must learn to share the Earth’s resources in a more equal and cooperative way. If we are going to prevent all the disastrous consequences of climate change then we must begin to use the resources of the planet more efficiently. I believe this is the most important issue facing our planet. The third plank on my platform is the issue of climate change. See: : The name 'Vikings' in Minnesota Vikings should be changed. I am calling for the elimination of the word 'Vikings' in the name of the Minnesota football team. The Vikings left a legacy of murder, rape and slavery wherever they went. They were also in the Americas, initiating the genocidal activities towards the Native Americans, which was then continued after the arrival of Columbus, some 500 years later. In Europe, the Vikings went on a rampage, where they would attack undefended villages, killing everyone, including the women and children.Įven the clergy were killed in the name of Odin. The problem of inadequate protection in poor neighborhoods is at least as important as the issue of police abuse by some police officers toward people in these neighborhoods.Īnother way to prevent violence, is to stop glorifying the purveyors of violence, those from the past, as well as those in the present. I am proposing that we do that by establishing a Basic Income Guarantee for all of our citizens.īut we must go beyond just their material and medical needs, to include the right to adequate and equal protection by the police and our courts. That means we must take care of the basic needs of all of our citizens. I believe that we are, or ought to be, our brothers’ and sisters’ keeper. A problem which disproportionately affects poor and homeless people and people of color. That support is necessary to the second plank on my platform, which is violence prevention. At the same time I support the majority of police officers who daily risk their lives for our safety and security. These include, but are not limited to homelessness, hunger and the lack of proper health care, education, transportation, the lack of legal representation and greater instances of bias and abuse by some police officers, especially toward people of color. Then, as now, I am running on a platform, that has as its first priority, the alleviation of poverty and all the consequences that follow. You may remember me from my 2013 Minneapolis Mayoral campaign, or my run, in 2014, for Hennepin County Commissioner, District 4. I am running for Mayor of Minneapolis in 2017. Theron Preston Washington (Write-in) - Eliminated Note: Negative numbers in the transfer total are due to exhaustion by overvotes.Ĭhristopher Robin Zimmerman (Write-in) - Eliminated Ward 3 Councilman Jacob Frey filed to run for mayor instead, and Ward 8 Councilwoman Elizabeth Glidden opted not to run for re-election. Incumbents ran for re-election to all but two of the city council seats. The filing deadline for candidates who wished to run in this election was August 15, 2017. Minneapolis, Minnesota, held a general election for mayor, all 13 seats on the city council, both elected members of the board of estimate and taxation, and all nine members of the park and recreation board on November 7, 2017. If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey.ĭo you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team.Ģ017 See also: Mayoral election in Minneapolis, Minnesota (2017) and Municipal elections in Minneapolis, Minnesota (2017) = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.
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