Not sure this was foreshadowing the evening’s vote in Minneapolis, but when Angela Conley, a Hennepin County commissioner who favors banning the police reported a carjacking…maybe…
…it may not have ended well.
No worse than the evening ended up for Philippe Cunningham and Jeremy Schroeder , two city council bots who had strongly favored defunding the MPD.
Minneapolis rejected the “public safety” amendment. Which prompted a bit of pique:
While some white progressives were upset, it was interesting reading the results of the police question broken down by precinct. In the upset wards – Cunningham’s Ward Four, far north Minneapolis, where the people who actually need to worry about crime live, and Schroder’s Ward 11, the far south, where people who have something to lose live, the charter amendment got clobbered.
Jacob Frey appears on his way to re-election once IRV wends its mysterious ways – Kate Knuth and Sheila Nezhad were unable to play the IRV game well enough to trick enough votes into their various columns.
Now, to settle in and see what’s happening in Virginia and New Jersey…
There have been a lot of car jacking of Uber/Lyft drivers in Minneapolis and Saint Paul in the last few months.
Think about it — press a button on your cell phone, and a guy drives up in a spiffy, clean car with lots of gasoline. You take the car and maybe get some cash from your victim — who you know is unarmed (Uber and Lyft do not allow their drivers to carry weapons, not even mace).
Which makes me think — I bet the only Uber/Lyft drivers at night in the TC are men. Maybe Ellison should look into that. Someone’s civil rights are being violated.
Predictable: the people in neighborhoods that are still “safe” want “more change” and the people in neighborhoods that have already been negatively affected have had enough.
Darn shame about Kate Knuth. Grifting ain’t easy.
Also from the Department of Karma: Major League Baseball jerked the All Star game away from the city of Atlanta like Lucy Van Pelt’s football. Last night the Atlanta Braves shut out Houston to win the World Series. So sweet!
The tweet from Ms Brannon was interesting but it’s usually pretty easy to find psychotic people on Twitter. CrimeWatchMpls was having a lot of fun teasing @lynnellmick, the classic old Scandi white woman who’s completely bought into the far left’s policies. Ms Mickelsen proposed that the upsurge in crime over the last 24 hours was actually due to the police trying to influence the vote.
https://twitter.com/CrimeWatchMpls/status/1455706968962867205
One of the left’s biggest losses.
If not getting rid of the police is considered a “loss,” the left needs to consider that this attitude is part of the reason why Democrats have a bare majority in the Senate and a super-slim majority in the House. “Defund The Police” was a Christmas gift to the GOP in 2020.
golfdoc;
Yea. After the Braves won, I started laughing as I pictured Rob Manfred having to hand the World Series trophy to them. As the song says; “Instant karma’s gonna get you.” Maybe it wasn’t instant, but no denying the result.
Emery is wrong, the Democrats do not have a majority of any kind in the senate.
Their are only 48 Democrat senators. Two independents vote with the democrats. Kamala Harris can only vote to break a tie, she is not a senator, she cannot, for example, be the 60th vote to break a filibuster. She sits on no committees, she does not debate legislation.
I liked Gazelka’s reply: “I congratulate the common sense of the majority of Minneapolis voters in voting down the Defund the Police ballot question. They showed more political courage than Gov. Walz, who did nothing to defeat it out of political cowardice within his own party.”
https://twitter.com/paulgazelka/status/1455723521913630725?s=20
She sits on no committees, she does not debate legislation
Probably just as well, MP. She doesn’t do debates well. Other kinds of -bates, but not debates.
@ bosshoss429 — Breaking: Mike Lindell announces that the Astros can still pull this out.
(Uber and Lyft do not allow their drivers to carry weapons, not even mace).
Their policies don’t allow. Don’t think for one minute that there are no drivers carrying. Think about it: Would you rather get carjacked (or worse), or get fired?
It’s very easy to not let anyone know you are carrying. Easy decision to make.
That said, I didn’t carry while driving. I never once felt intimidated by anyone I picked up. I made sure to not take any requests from N Mpls (the app gives you a general preview of the pickup location when it offers you a ride). If I dropped off in N Mpls, I locked the doors when they got out and went offline until I was back in a safe area. Granted, that was before things went to hell.