Star Tribune Examines Three from SW Running for Mpls. Mayor

Three candidates for mayor of Minneapolis—all from Southwest Minneapolis—were the subject of two Star Tribune articles this week. 

Columnist Jon Tevlin profiled Independent Cam Winton, and reporter Eric Roper contrasted Ward 13 City Council Member Betsy Hodges and former Hennepin County Commissioner Mark Andrew (both DFLers).

Winton told Tevlin he'd like to see the City of Minneapolis operate more like its southwestern neighbor:  

Winton, 34, lives in the far corner of south Minneapolis, and says he’s running partly because he can look down the street to Edina and see how much better the city runs.

“To me, the next level is a city that works for everyone, with paved and plowed streets and fair taxes,” Winton said.”There is no Democrat or Republican way to pave a road.”

Read the full article at startribune.com. 

Roper's article went into detail about which factions or politicians past and present are backing Hodges and Andrew: 

Two generations of city politics are increasingly driving the race for mayor of Minneapolis, which has pitted many in the traditional DFL establishment against a coalition of City Hall’s current occupants. ...

The rivals are billing themselves as candidates of the future and their opponent as more of the same. Andrew, who left 16 years of elected office in 1999, calls himself an “insurgent” taking on City Hall. Hodges, elected in 2005, used her speech at the DFL convention to take a veiled shot at Andrew and the policies of the 1990s, particularly corporate handouts.

Read the full article at startribune.com.