Our Streets Minneapolis (formerly the Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition) is giving all Mayoral, City Council and Park Board candidates the opportunity to respond to questions surrounding bicycle and pedestrian issues in Minneapolis. We will add additional questionnaires as we receive them from candidates.
If you are candidate or candidate representative, you can contact us if you have any questions about the questionnaire. Note that Our Streets Minneapolis is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization and does not endorse candidates.
Responses to each question must be under 200 words -- if more than 200 were provided, only the first 200 words are published. Here are the responses we've received.
Note that we use “walking” and “pedestrian” as inclusive of people in wheelchairs.
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MAYOR
Troy Benjegerdes
Raymond Dehn
Al Flowers
Jacob Frey
Tom Hoch
Betsy Hodges
Charlie Gers
Gregg A. Iverson
Nekima Levy-Pounds
Ronald Lischeid
L.A. Nik
Aswar Rahman
David Rosenfeld
Ian Simpson
Captain Jack Sparrow
David John Wilson
WARD 1
John Hayden
Jillia Pessenda
Kevin Reich
Zachary Wefel (withdrawn)
WARD 2
Cam Gordon
WARD 3
Tim Bildsoe
Ginger Jentzen
Steve Fletcher
Cordelia Pierson (withdrawn)
Samantha Lee Pree-Stinson
WARD 4
Phillipe Cunningham
Stephanie Gasca
Dana Hansen
Marcus Harcus (withdrawn)
Barbara A. "Barb" Johnson
Philip Murphy (withdrawn)
WARD 5
Jeremiah Ellison
Cathy Spann
Raeisha "RA" Williams
Blong Yang
WARD 6
Tiffini Flynn Forslund (withdrawn)
Mohamud Noor
Abdi Warsame
Fadumo Yusuf
WARD 7
Janne Flisrand
Lisa Goodman
Joe Kovacs
Teqen Zea-Aida
WARD 8
David Holsinger
Andrea Jenkins
April Kane
Terry White
WARD 9
Alondra Cano
Mohamed Farah
Ronald W. Peterson
Gary Schiff
WARD 10
Lisa Bender
Scott Fine (withdrawn)
Bruce Lundeen
Saralyn Romanishan
David Schorn
WARD 11
Erica Mauter
John Quincy
Jeremy Schroeder
WARD 12
WARD 13
Adam Faitek (withdrawn)
Linea Palmisano
Bob Reuer
PARK BOARD AT LARGE
Charlie Casserly
Mike Derus
Meg Forney
Londel French
Russ Henry
Devin Hogan
Jonathan Honerbrink
Bob Sullentrop
LaTrisha Vetaw
PARK BOARD DISTRICTS
DISTRICT 1
Mohamed Issa Barre
Billy Menz
Chris Meyer
Liz Wielenski (withdrawn)
DISTRICT 2
Kale Severson
Mike Talley Tate
DISTRICT 3
Charles Exner
Abdikadir “AK” Hassan
Abdi “Gurhan” Mohamed
DISTRICT 4
Jono Cowgill
Tom Nordyke
DISTRICT 5
Andrea Fahrenkrug
Steffanie Musich
Bill Shroyer
DISTRICT 6
Brad Bourn
Bob Fine
Robert Schlosser
Jennifer Zielinski