My friend, the opposition party here in Mpls is the Green party. For all practical purposes there is no republican party in Mpls, and there hasn't been since the mid 70s.
I may just be going insane here.......... ;o)
btw, repeating that I know both are liberal.....just heard/read that Hennepin was less so than Ramsey......which surprised me a whole lot.
This is funny.
Randy Kelly has been conservative on a few different issues. He is a life long St. Paul Eastsider salt-of-the-earth kind of guy.
A friend of mine gave a fund raising party for Randy. This friend is very DFL invested. Bet he's not too happy. Snicker.
As for me, I'm not even gonna discuss this one with my neighbors, their still p.o.'d about Norm! LOL.
You are correct. I live in Minneapolis.
The last Republican to represent any part of Mpls in the Legislature was Bill Dean and he retired in '82. The last GOP member of the city council retired in '85.
GOP voters are most numerous in Wards 11 and 13 in the south and southwest corner of the city. Ward 13 has had an Independent council member since '93 who usually votes fiscal conservative.
But other than that, Minneapolis is full-on liberal and the Green Part IS the opposition party.
It's tragic too because most of the Green Party office-holders couldn't tell their head from their butt without two hands and a search party.