Why bother? The leftist DAs in several cities (I forget which ones) are refusing to charge the arrested rioters and are ordering them all released.

The police should arrest more rioters. Even if they are overwhelmed, that’s “their job”, so it cause them more work, and the protesters (arrested) more hassle. Less police in other places, but they’re standing down anyway, so not such a big difference if 10 or 30 in an area accept looting because they’re overwhelmed. But at leas there would be more info about some of the rioters.

Hard to know rioters from protesters.

They only do that quite selectively. What was interesting about Hodges’ 2013 campaign is the degree to which the Minneapolis press was a steno pool plagiarizing from her campaign literature. Her mother was available to be interviewed, but neither one was asked the most banal questions. The bits and pieces the media published were what the campaign volunteered.

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That’s simple. Would you want to subject yourself – and more importantly, your family – to the anal exam and the all-inclusive search for skeletons that the woke news media would subject you to?

Not me. Even if you were squeaky clean, that hive of scum and villainy would make something up.

That’s the point, though. Minneapolis is over 400,000 people. That’s a good sized city by any standards and it’s at the heart of a 3.2 million person metro-area. How can there not be at least a half-dozen of legitimate candidates with long-standing in the community standing in between this guy and one of the most prominent positions in the state?

Mike

Her family moved to Minneapolis in 1973. It’s a matter of no consequence, as she was a toddler at the time. However, she and her staff evidently thought it complicated her message sufficiently that they made a point of leaving the impression she was a native without saying so. Neither of her parents ever lived in Minneapolis prior to 1973. Her maternal-side uncle settled there around 1954. The family lived in the suburb of Wayzata (which is fine, and that she admits to; I think her parents and brother might still live there). She was in a graduate program at the University of Wisconsin and returned to Minneapolis after a 10 year absence when that didn’t work out. (Not sure if she lost interest or they lost interest in her; she was awarded an MA, and that was it). She worked as staff director for a succession of small non-profits over a period of seven years, then ran for the council. Her campaign literature suggested she was just minding her business when locals asked her to run. Her mother got off message in an interview and let slip that she’d returned to Minneapolis with the idea of getting involved in city government.

I was not clear as to whether she had a day job or not while she was on the council. I’m not clear about that in re Frey, either. Frey’s been rather more focused in his activities. She’d spent a couple of years as a graduate student and about a dozen years as a junior grade social worker when she ran for the council. She never cadged an MSW degree and never worked for the county welfare department or set up a counseling practice. He was a working lawyer who had other things to do with his life than get mixed up in electoral politics. She’s divorced, re-married, and childless. So’s he.

I think Frey would benefit from re-building his legal practice and building a family. For Hodges, that isn’t an option. Her skills are rather nebulous and at age 50 children haven’t been an option for her for some time. When her husband landed a job in Washington, the two of them blew town.

If you think it was silly of Minneapolis voters to select carpetbagger Jake, fine. I’d have a look at the people who ran against him. My impression at the time was that you had a choice between Botchy Hodges, Frey, and a collection of gargoyles.

Ilhan Omar’s homesick.

At least she was a native of Minnesota and had been living in Minneapolis for eight years before joining the city council and served another eight years before becoming Mayor. Frey literally went from (probably) never even been to the state of Minnesota to leader of its largest and most important city in half that time.

How little sense of yourself as a community can you have for something like that to happen?

Mike

Just to remind ourselves (assuming that’s even necessary) where Ilan Omar is coming from:
https://apelbaum.wordpress.com/2020/04/30/jimale-the-jihadi-organ-grinder-and-his-little-tweeting-monkey/