Saint Paulicy – the best Saint Paul politics blog there is – is covering the…er, odd Pakou Hang campaign for city council:
For a mere fifty cents a day over what was then 10 days left, you could answer the call of the campaign to fund Pakou in her 10 day muffin eating marathon. The campaign sent out a plea for more money to help send Pakou “over the top.” The campaign missed a golden opportunity to call on supporters to help send Pakou over the “muffin top.”
At first SPicy thought that Pakou had scored a major endorsement from Sally Struthers and the Feed the Children Foundation, instead Pakou is soliciting donations to feed herself.
Hang is running against councilman Dan Bostrom:
City Council Member Dan Bostrom should donate $500 in gift certificates for muffins and coffee for Pakou. Then he can just sit back while Pakou does her campaigning in locally owned neighborhood coffee shop featuring organic gluten free muffins while she ponders what she is going to do after the election…The DFL left her hanging weeks ago focusing their efforts on Wards 1 and 5.
It’s actually an idea for fighting hunger…
Now she wants supporters to buy her muffins. If the voters of Ward 6 decide to send Pakou to City Hall, SPicy will eat a big old bran muffin, and you know what’s next.
Hm. I think I’d take a shot at Sakura or Murray’s. Or at least a bagel shop.
Not a big muffin fan.
Should be an interesting race. Bostrom seems to be underestimating her. As she has shown before, she very good at GOTV, and in City Council elections where voter turnout will not be large she may be able to pull the upset.
Spicy can not be that well versed in St. Paul politics. Neither Hang nor Helgen in Ward 5 are endorsed by the DFL. It would violate the party Constitution for the DFL to expend any effort for either.