St. Paul is pretty much a one-party town, and if you have to ask which party, you must be from somewhere else. One (anonymous) political activist told me the decisions that matter were made back in January or, at the latest, in June at the ward conventions. But hope springs eternal, and so do candidates.
Twenty candidates have filed for city council and eleven for school board, with a little more than three months until the November 8 election. The election will decide all seven city council seats and four school board seats. Six of the seven city council seats have incumbents, and there are two school board incumbents.
This year, the Green Party is making a try with four endorsed candidates.
Green Party candidate Johnny Howard is running against incumbent Melvin Carter in Ward 1, as are a couple of candidates who aren’t serious enough to have websites yet.
In Ward 2, incumbent Dave Thune is challenged by Green Party candidate Jim Ivey, as well as perennial candidate and litigant Sharon Anderson and two more.
Ward 3, the only city council seat without an incumbent, has no Green Party candidate, but may have an interesting race between Chris Tolbert, who won the DFL endorsement over John Manillo, after three rounds of voting. Manillo is running without the endorsement, saying that there were “numerous irregularities and convention rule violations that tainted the endorsement process” at the convention. (Also running are Libertarian Tylor Slinger and Eve Stein.)
In Ward 5, neither incumbent Lee Helgen nor challenger Amy Brendmoen got an endorsement at the DFL convention, and they’ll go head-to-head in November.
Incumbent Dan Bostrom is challenged by Green Party candidate Bee Xiong in Ward 6.
Current city council president Kathy Lantry is unopposed in Ward 7.
In the school board election, Anne Carroll and Keith Hardy are incumbents. Mary Doran and Louise Seeba have DFL endorsements, and Devin Miller is the Green Party candidate for school board.
All candidates, with information from the Ramsey County election website. (A couple of the websites aren’t working, and I corrected URLs for two that I managed to locate in slightly different spots than listed officially.)
City Council
Ward 1
Name: Johnny Howard
Office: City Council
Candidate Residence Address: 638 Van Buren Ave St Paul MN 55104
Campaign Contact Information: 638 Van Buren Ave St Paul MN 55104
Phone: 651/894-3216
Website: www.johnnyhoward.org
Email: jhoward721@comcast.netName: Melvin W. Carter III
Office: City Council
Candidate Residence Address: 294 Charles Ave St Paul MN 55103
Campaign Contact Information: 294 Charles Ave St Paul MN 55103
Phone: 651/489-3567
Website: http://www.melvincarter.com/
Email: melvin@melvincarter.comName: Anthony J Fernandez
Office: City Council
Candidate Residence Address: 779 Edmund Ave #2 St Paul MN 55104
Campaign Contact Information: 779 Edmund Ave #2 St Paul MN 55104
Phone: 612/978-4461
Website: www.anthonyjfernandez.com
Email: ajf@anthonyjfernandez.comName: James Michael McEiver
Office: City Council
Candidate Residence Address: 596 Portland Ave St Paul MN 55102
Campaign Contact Information:
Phone:
Website: jimmmycash@yahoo.com
Ward 2
Name: Sharon Anderson
Office: City Council
Candidate Residence Address: 1058 Summit Ave / PO Box 4384 St Paul MN 55104
Campaign Contact Information:
Phone: 651/776-5835
Website: www.sharon4council.blogspot.com
Email: sharon4anderson@aol.comName: Dave Thune
Office: City Council
Candidate Residence Address: 26 Irvine Park St Paul MN 55102
Campaign Contact Information:
Phone: 651/227-2511
Website: www.davethune.com
Email: thune@comcast.netName: Jim Ivey
Office: City Council
Candidate Residence Address: 300 Wall St #708 St Paul MN 55101
Campaign Contact Information:
Phone: 651/665-0224
Website: www.iveyforsaintpaul.org
Email: jim@iveyforsaintpaul.orgName: Bill Hosko
Office: City Council
Candidate Residence Address: 111 Kellogg Blvd St Paul MN 55101
Campaign Contact Information:
Phone: 763/656-8624
Website:
Email: BillHosko@yahoo.comName: Cynthia P Schanno
Office: City Council
Candidate Residence Address: 256 Spring St St Paul MN 55102
Campaign Contact Information:
Phone:
Website: www.voteschanno.com
Email: cynthia@voteschanno.com
Ward 3
Name: Chris Tolbert
Office: City Council
Candidate Residence Address: 1257 Watson Ave St Paul MN 55116
Campaign Contact Information: 1257 Watson Ave St Paul MN 55116
Phone: 651/269-4786
Website: www.christolbert.org
Email: chris@christolbert.orgName: Eve Stein
Office: City Council
Candidate Residence Address: 1302 Bayard Ave St Paul MN 55116
Campaign Contact Information: 1302 Bayard Ave St Paul MN 55116
Phone: 651/500-8415
Website: www.evestein.org
Email: eve@evestein.orgName: John Mannillo
Office: City Council
Candidate Residence Address: 1335 Beechwood Pl St Paul MN 55116
Campaign Contact Information:
Phone: 651/699-3322
Website: www.johnmannillo.com
Email: john@mannillowomack.comName: Tylor J Slinger
Office: City Council
Candidate Residence Address: 751 Mount Curve Blvd #6 St Paul MN 55116
Campaign Contact Information: PO Box 16126 St Paul MN 55116
Phone: 621/467-9241
Website: www.slingerforstpaul.com
Email: tylor@slingerforstpaul.com
Ward 4
Name: Russ Stark
Office: City Council
Candidate Residence Address: 1500 Charles Ave St Paul MN 55104
Campaign Contact Information:
Phone: 651/324-2807
Website: www.russforward4.org
Email: russellstark23@yahoo.comName: Curtis Stock
Office: City Council
Candidate Residence Address: 1472 Como Ave St Paul MN 55108
Campaign Contact Information:
Phone: 651/644-6098
Website: www.ward4forstock.com
Email: curt4council@comcast.net
Ward 5
Name: Lee Helgen
Office: City Council
Candidate Residence Address: 988 Hoyt Ave W St Paul MN 55117
Campaign Contact Information:
Phone: 651/488-1850
Website:
Email:Name: Amy Brendmoen
Office: City Council
Candidate Residence Address: 1045 Van Slyke Ave St Paul MN 55103
Campaign Contact Information: 1045 Van Slyke Ave St Paul MN 55103
Phone: 651/492-8488
Website: www.amyforcitycouncil.com
Email: amyforcouncil@gmail.com
Ward 6
Name: Dan Bostrom
Office: City Council
Candidate Residence Address: 1646 E Shore Dr St Paul MN 55106
Campaign Contact Information: 1646 E Shore Dr St Paul MN 55106
Phone: 651/776-4876
Website: www.danbostrom.com
Email: danbostrom@aol.comName: Bee Kevin Xiong
Office: City Council
Candidate Residence Address: 1621 7th St E St Paul MN 55106
Campaign Contact Information:
Phone: 651/769-4108
Website: xiongforsaintpaul.org
Email: beekevinxiong@yahoo.com
Ward 7
Name: Kathy Lantry
Office: City Council
Candidate Residence Address: 25 East Sandralee Dr St Paul MN 55119
Campaign Contact Information: 25 East Sandralee Dr St Paul MN 55119
Phone: 651/731-1583
Website: www.kathylantry.com
Email: kathy.lantry@comcast.net
School Board
Name: Louise Seeba
Office: School Board
Legal Residential Address: 1399 Sheldon St St Paul MN 55108
Campaign Contact Information:
Phone: 651/335-4263
Website: www.seebaforschoolboard.org
Email: louiseseeba@gmail.comName: Anne Carroll
Office: School Board
Legal Residential Address: 1357 Highland Pkwy St Paul MN 55116
Campaign Contact Information: 1357 Highland Pkwy St Paul MN 55116
Phone: 651/690-9156
Website: www.annecarroll.org
Email: carrfran@gmail.comName: Mary Doran
Office: School Board
Legal Residential Address: 962 Como Ave St Paul MN 55103
Campaign Contact Information:
Phone:
Website: www.marydoranschoolboard.com
Email: marydoran@marydoranschoolboard.comName: Keith Hardy
Office: School Board
Legal Residential Address: 380 East Wheelock Pkwy #135 St Paul MN 55130
Campaign Contact Information:
Phone: 651/497-8924
Website: www.hardy4education.org
Email: khardy63@yahoo.comName: Devin Miller
Office: School Board
Legal Residential Address: 400 Luella St #309 St Paul MN 55119
Campaign Contact Information:
Phone: 651/276-4293
Website: www.millerforschools.org
Email: millerforschools@yahoo.comName: Kevin Huepenbecker
Office: School Board
Legal Residential Address: 1460 Hamline Ave #1 St Paul MN 55108
Campaign Contact Information:
Phone: 651/489-2820
Website:
Email:Name: Pat Igo
Office: School Board
Legal Residential Address: 165 Western Ave N #210 St Paul MN 55102
Campaign Contact Information:
Phone: 651/298-0000
Website: www.igo4education.com
Email: patigo@comcast.netName: Lizz Paulson
Office: School Board
Legal Residential Address: 1241 Edgerton St St Paul MN 55130
Campaign Contact Information: PO Box 6914 St Paul MN 55130
Phone:
Website: www.paulson4schools.com
Email: elizabeth.e.paulson@gmail.com
lizz@paulson4schools.comName: Richard Robinson (withdrawn)
Office: School Board
Legal Residential Address: 835 Como Ave St Paul MN 55103
Campaign Contact Information:
Phone: 612/353-7083
Website: www.robinsonforschoolboard.com
Email: info@robinsonforschoolboard.comName: Tiffany Fearing
Office: School Board
Legal Residential Address: 439 St Clair Ave St Paul MN 55102
Campaign Contact Information:
Phone: 651/315-2506
Website:Name: Al Oertwig
Office: School Board
Legal Residential Address: 509 Fred St St Paul MN 55130
Campaign Contact Information:
Phone: 651/771-0184
Website:
Email: oertwig2008@hotmail.com
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