Posted on 04/20/2017 9:53:25 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges says she welcomes the attack from President Donald Trump’s “cronies” at the New York Observer after the online newspaper named her this week as one of the three worst mayors in the country.
The article, published on Tuesday, said Hodges has alienated Minneapolitans on both the left and the center, and it predicts she’ll face tough competition in the upcoming election. The list ranks her just below Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and above New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio.
While author Arick Wierson says Hodges “appears to genuinely want better” for Minneapolis, he slams her for clumsily managing the Nicollet Mall makeover, the city’s response to the Jamar Clark protests, and her “Charmin-soft approach” to the office.
Immediately, Hodges fired back, saying, “Well, I got Trump’s attention.”
In a statement, her office criticized the Observer article, noting that until recently the newspaper was run by Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Since he started working at the White House, the Observer was sold to the Kushner family trust.
The mayor said that the article was a direct response to her recent speech in which she called for Minneapolis to come together in opposition to Trump’s agenda.
“When Trump’s cronies are the people attacking you, you know you’ve done something right,” the mayor said in the statement, adding that her city is on the “front lines” of the resistance against president’s policies.
The Mayoral Race
Running against Hodges in the mayoral race are State Rep. Raymond Dehn, City Council Member Jacob Frey, former head of the Minneapolis NAACP Nekima Levy-Pounds, and filmmaker Aswar Rahman.
Key issues in the election to be the city’s minimum wage, racial equity and crime/policing.
Poor Minneapolis..
So far from God.
So close to the United States.
Betsy Hodges is also extremely solicitous to the Somali hordes infesting the greater Twin Cities area.
As in hijab-wearing, lecturing police about cultural sensitivity, and working hand in glove with `charitable groups’ who are importing even more Muslim savages.
Must be a lot of federal money in the import business.
Last time we were in the Twin Cities, we hardly recognized the place.
DemonRats never take credit for their deeds. Sort of like how all those innocent people wind up in prison.
In 1995 we visited the Mayo Clinic & then the Mall of America.
Everyone looked Scandahoovian & blonde to us. Has that ever changed.
Given the absolutely inept, incompetent and corrupt political leadership of major American cities, it amazes me that they function at all.
From what I have read, importing muslims...er “refugees” has put a lot of beans on Catholic Charities and other such groups tables.
Catholic Charities and the ELCA.
Thanks! I could not think of the other,
I nominate Pittsburgh’s Bill Peduto, who is all about making Pittsburgh the gayest friendliest city on the planet, ripping-up perfectly good roads to build bikepaths, and....now.....turning the entire city payroll into an Affirmative Action jobs program.
How could people be upset in little Mogadishu? Somalis bring so much diversity to a city.
Although, interestingly, the mayor’s political party is never mentioned in the WCCO article, I guess it’s safe to assume she’s a Democrat.
Here’s a hint for you. Her Chief of Police is a lesbian.
“Immediately, Hodges fired back, saying, “Well, I got Trump’s attention.””
Trump doesn’t define himself in relation to other people. That is why he is the alpha dog.
16 years in Minnesota. Very good years for me and the family.
What’s happened up north is frightening.
The mayor is a typical incompetent LIB asshat moonbat. Typical loser.
The mayor is a typical incompetent LIB asshat moonbat. Typical loser.
It certainly has.I am of the opinion that the Church should be accepting NO aid or money of any sort from any government unit. Government money is corrupting and doubly so when it goes to Religion. I am Catholic and have stopped giving money to any of the Catholic charities orgs for the reason that it goes for these things and some of it leaks out to abortion providers, also.
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