Crabgrass agrees, and goes further to castigate the State DFL clowns who overturned the Fetah endorsement-nomination that arose from the local DFL convention.
Fit that into a house divided wisdom. Bottom line - vote Frey out.
In awarding a coveted Spotty, Timmer reposts the winning LTE:
When Jacob Frey ran for Minneapolis mayor in 2017, a major claim of his campaign was that he would end homelessness in Minneapolis within five years. While he cannot be blamed for the effects of the COVID pandemic, it is fair to say he has failed miserably [...]
[...] His administration seems to only know how to pull two levers: eviction and fencing. It is reasonable to expect another four years to look like the last eight. The police will continue to play Whac-A-Mole chasing encampments around the city, destroying the possessions, legal documents and medications of our most vulnerable residents. [...]
Frey has failed, and it is time for an aggressive, housing-first approach that treats the unhoused as clients and a symptom of bigger problems, rather than as the problem themselves.
Fred Beukema, Minneapolis
Frey has used the veto repeatedly to stifle the will of the City Council, where majorities passed things but were short of a veto override veto. That's a part of a strong-mayor local government set-up, unless the veto is regarded as an unusual tool rather than a regular club to beat back will of the majority.
While that goes beyond what Timmer and his Spotty award recipient published, it is true.
Moreover, Minneapolis has ranked choice voting, which favors incumbency where a known better caNdidate is first choice of many but Frey gets second choice solely by name recognition, merit be damned.
Opinions can differ. So four good reasons to oust Frey from his paycheck - the convention that had local party decision authority picked somebody else, he has a Spotty against him, gross ineffectiveness, and overuse of the veto, Timmer judges him lacking in granting the Spotty being a fifth factor if you trust Steve's judgment as I do. Three strikes, alone, are an out.
UPDATE; Frey seemed disinterested or disdainful toward real and serious attention to the housing crisis and ways things might be bettered that way. Fetah has ideas, showing he cares. If Frey wins, expect no change. In effect, the choice seems Fetah, or more of the same.