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Two candidates waste no time filing for Minneapolis mayoral election
MPLS Star & Sickle ^ | 7-5-05 | rochelle olson

Posted on 07/05/2005 3:42:15 PM PDT by Rakkasan1

Familiar faces and perennial optimists put their names into the Minneapolis mayor's race first thing today when the candidate filing period opened at City Hall. Gun shop owner Mark Koscielski paid his $20 and filed first, while veteran and former City Council member Dick Franson filed second in the first-floor elections office. "I want to be No. 1 and today I was No. 1," Koscielski said. As for his party affiliation, the candidate said, "I filed as 'Pissed Off Taxpayer.' "

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: candidates; mayoral; minneapolis; murderapolis
"I want to be No. 1 and today I was No. 1," Koscielski said. As for his party affiliation, the candidate said, "I filed as 'Pissed Off Taxpayer.' "

I'd vote for him.

1 posted on 07/05/2005 3:42:16 PM PDT by Rakkasan1
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To: Rakkasan1

Better to be piss off than piss on. One you just shake it off and the other you have to take a bath to clean up.


2 posted on 07/05/2005 3:45:36 PM PDT by handy old one (It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. Aristotle)
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