I am endorsed by the New Progressive Alliance, and support its platform. City
Council member Cam Gordon also sought and received the NPA endorsement. Last
year I stood for election to the Minneapolis School Board, advanced to the
general election and obtained 31,300 votes, about 25% of the total vote, with
endorsements from the NPA, the Green Party, Democratic Socialists of America,
and Lavender Greens (the LGBTIQ caucus of the Green Party).
I am fighting for a stadium referendum this fall. On July 16, 2013, I filed a
petition for a writ of mandamus with the District Court, seeking an order
commanding the City Council to hold a Vikings Stadium referendum. A hearing is
scheduled on August 20, 2013, at 8:30 a.m. at the Hennepin County Government
Center. Shortly thereafter, I expect a ruling. I intend to give the judge no
choice but to rule that the Citizens of Minneapolis have the right to vote on
the use of City of Minneapolis tax revenues and other obligations imposed on
the City by the Vikings Stadium Act of 2012.
My top priority as mayor will be to eliminate systemic racism in employment,
housing, the Court system and the Public School System. I advocate the
establishment of a division in the City's Civil Rights Department empowered to
detect and prosecute those engaged in illegal, covert discrimination in the
employment and housing markets. I advocate an end to the war on drugs, which
has been extremely effective in criminalizing, marginalizing, and
disenfranchising people of color. I advocate steps to eliminate systemic racism
in the K-12 school system: Students of color are heavily exposed to less
qualified and less experienced teachers, and more heavily concentrated in
watered-down curriculum tracks. I oppose the corporate-style reforms,
charter-ization and de-unionization of the Public School system that is being
orchestrated at the federal level, and is being carried out by the State of MN
and the Minneapolis Public Schools.
Mann for Minneapolis Mayor
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