God Bless The Fourth Precinct Playing the old "reluctant political candidate" tune like a rummage sale guitar with one string, St. Anthony East resident Melissa Hill recently started a Facebook group to talk about the fact that, oh, she's so reluctant to do so, but some friends are saying she should run against Diane Hofstede in Ward 3.
Here's what Hill has to say about herself on Facebook...
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Hi,
I'm Melissa Hill. I'm a current resident of NE Minneapolis (St. Anthony East) and previously lived for 3 years in the McKinley neighborhood in North Minneapolis so I've spent a good portion of 8 years in Ward 3. During this time, I've seen the city suffer under the mis-mangement of the current council and mayor.
In the past few months, I've had numerous people come up to me and ask me to run for Ward 3 City Council in Minneapolis. The current incumbent is very unresponsive and appears to be more worried about couches on porches than an out-of-control police department.
The problem is that I don't care much for politics so I'm a very reluctant candidate. However, I also see how badly run the city has been so I feel it may be worth giving up a summer to try to do something about it.
This group is open to anyone, even those not in Ward 3 or Minneapolis.
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To which I respond: Oh, thank you Melissa (sarcasm font) for trying to save me from "out of control" cops. Indeed, as I walk amid the constant open air drug dealing at Hawthorn (sic) Crossings strip mall on West Broadway, or the squalor that accumulates at the edge of Merwin's Liquor on the "butt fence," I think to myself, "I hope some out of control cop doesn't jump out of a squad car and just start whapping me with his nightstick in an oh-so-nonconsensual way."
Melissa, you said like four lines of text about your campaign, but you had to take a shot at the police. That tells me all I need to know about you, plus the picture of you with a BULLHORN on Facebook. The fact you no longer live in McKinley where you can make a difference, but have moved to the paradise which is St. Anthony East tells me even more. (That's a shot at YOU, Melissa, not St. Anthony. What I wouldn't give for Hawthorne to be more like St. Anthony or even, for that matter, even Marcy-Holmes with its free range collegiate couches)
The criticisms you make of "the current incumbent" do strike a cord with me, however. I've found her unresponsive at times, too, and I thought the couch thing was petty and stupid. My biggest beef with the city, however, is that citizens can't look up properties by name of property owner on the search function of the City's property website, a flaw which left us in the Hawthorne Neighborhood SEVEN MONTHS BEHIND on dealing with a bad actor whose property featured crack and prostitution and yet "the current incumbent" sits right across from me at a meeting and she doesn't GET THAT.
But you, Melissa, have nothing to say about whores and drug dealers. No, you reserve your politically correct venom for the BRAVE COPS who are protecting us up here in the Fourth Precinct while you lounge around in St. Anthony East, cooing about your tomatoes, while they protect you in the dark and dead of night.
I may be a frequent critic of "the current incumbent" (to use your passive aggressive phrase) and lord knows I've been a harsh critic of police misconduct at other times, in other contexts, but I'll take the "current incumbent" any day if you're the other choice with your b.s. anti-police rhetoric.
As for your tomato plants...
GOOD LUCK WITH THAT, Melissa. I've got your tomato RIGHT HERE!
SPLAT!!!!!!!
Here's what Hill has to say about herself on Facebook...
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Hi,
I'm Melissa Hill. I'm a current resident of NE Minneapolis (St. Anthony East) and previously lived for 3 years in the McKinley neighborhood in North Minneapolis so I've spent a good portion of 8 years in Ward 3. During this time, I've seen the city suffer under the mis-mangement of the current council and mayor.
In the past few months, I've had numerous people come up to me and ask me to run for Ward 3 City Council in Minneapolis. The current incumbent is very unresponsive and appears to be more worried about couches on porches than an out-of-control police department.
The problem is that I don't care much for politics so I'm a very reluctant candidate. However, I also see how badly run the city has been so I feel it may be worth giving up a summer to try to do something about it.
This group is open to anyone, even those not in Ward 3 or Minneapolis.
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To which I respond: Oh, thank you Melissa (sarcasm font) for trying to save me from "out of control" cops. Indeed, as I walk amid the constant open air drug dealing at Hawthorn (sic) Crossings strip mall on West Broadway, or the squalor that accumulates at the edge of Merwin's Liquor on the "butt fence," I think to myself, "I hope some out of control cop doesn't jump out of a squad car and just start whapping me with his nightstick in an oh-so-nonconsensual way."
Melissa, you said like four lines of text about your campaign, but you had to take a shot at the police. That tells me all I need to know about you, plus the picture of you with a BULLHORN on Facebook. The fact you no longer live in McKinley where you can make a difference, but have moved to the paradise which is St. Anthony East tells me even more. (That's a shot at YOU, Melissa, not St. Anthony. What I wouldn't give for Hawthorne to be more like St. Anthony or even, for that matter, even Marcy-Holmes with its free range collegiate couches)
The criticisms you make of "the current incumbent" do strike a cord with me, however. I've found her unresponsive at times, too, and I thought the couch thing was petty and stupid. My biggest beef with the city, however, is that citizens can't look up properties by name of property owner on the search function of the City's property website, a flaw which left us in the Hawthorne Neighborhood SEVEN MONTHS BEHIND on dealing with a bad actor whose property featured crack and prostitution and yet "the current incumbent" sits right across from me at a meeting and she doesn't GET THAT.
But you, Melissa, have nothing to say about whores and drug dealers. No, you reserve your politically correct venom for the BRAVE COPS who are protecting us up here in the Fourth Precinct while you lounge around in St. Anthony East, cooing about your tomatoes, while they protect you in the dark and dead of night.
I may be a frequent critic of "the current incumbent" (to use your passive aggressive phrase) and lord knows I've been a harsh critic of police misconduct at other times, in other contexts, but I'll take the "current incumbent" any day if you're the other choice with your b.s. anti-police rhetoric.
As for your tomato plants...
GOOD LUCK WITH THAT, Melissa. I've got your tomato RIGHT HERE!
SPLAT!!!!!!!
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