Ramsey Ward 3 Council Seat is on the November ballot. Victor Jumah is running, with a belief, "Community First Leadership begins with listening to residents and ensuring their voices shape city decisions. We strengthen Ramsey by investing in families, youth programs, parks, and opportunities that build long-term community success." Divisiveness seems to have no place in his running. His approach is not one of partisan bias. He'll listen, to foster community cohesiveness.

The headline quote is from Jumah's campaign website, https://www.victorforramsey.com/

The Jumah website home page is telling us who he is, and why he'd improve the council, if winning. The headline quote is home page content. Partisan divisiveness would cut against community cohesiveness, and might indicate an agenda beyond "best for Ramsey." Jumah disavows that, up front.

Which brings to mind the three unfortunately partisan resolutions the mayor and others put, last minute, onto a council meeting agenda.  

 

Clicking images will enlarge them to read. The Minutes from May 12, 2026, (above) show three items removed from the agenda by a 4 - 3 vote. The mayor and Councilmember Specht were in the minority, wanting the flag scapegoatoing resolution, (put onto the agenda by the mayor and Specht),and the other two scapgoating Gov. Walz (put onto the agenda by the mayor and Olson) . Partisan stuff, well above the pay grade. Clearly so, both as to partisanship, and inappropriateness for city action. And, diverting from what city action can do, and should be. Simply complaints about somethings the mayor and his two confederates have no power to influence. There to gin up community division.

Specht is quick to point out his Republican partinship, to brag of it as defining in part who he is and how he sees himself as fit to represent Ward 3 of Ramsey:

Over the past few years, I have volunteered for the local winning campaigns of Abigail Whelan, John Heinrich and Jim Abeler.  We are members of The Edge Christian Fellowship church.

Specht has freedom of religion, but does he have to be so in your face about it? Whether that church, or a Buddhist, or Rastafarian, is irrelevant to what council business entails; roads, development proposals not overextending load on the aquifer Ramsey and other communities rely upon, taxing, spending. 

Crabgrass values freedom from religion, i.e., not considering it relevant to official duties of town councilmembers. Or to going beyond duties, to politics, as those three odious resolution proposals stand, wisely struck down by four correct minds on council. Minds of a type Jumah might join and help. 

Then, there is this, on Rumble - which is noteworthy, pushing again an in your face religious thing. Again, not city business, but futzing around the Capitol.

Crabgrass, in endorsing Jumah, hopes his mind is such that he would, as his website says, stick to city business, and help run the city competently. Again -

https://www.victorforramsey.com/

Crabgrass simply sees Jumah as level minded to stick to the city business, not selling a political party or a faith, but doing the actual job competently and without loading on inappropriate opinion; e.g., not being a part of divisive resolution mongering of no help whatsoever to cohesiveness of the Ramsey community. 

What is not real city business is for a place other than formal council meetings of record. Resolutions about road paving, fine, resolutions dumping a load on Governor Walz, well beyond decent, focused, town business. Pushing a flag thing when no subunit of Minnesota government is required to fly the actual official flag of the State of Minnesota, is overloading a meeting with idiocy beyond the call of duty.

Spect and the mayor and Olson had their bias handed back to them by four good souls.

Jamah would make a fifth. 

And in fairness, this is not saying the mayor, Olson or Specht are off base when doing city business, or grossly incompetent or untrustworthy, it is saying they err inexcusably when not keeping to city business while entrusted to sit at the council table as representatives of city mood and values and cohesion. They are not there for politicking, or faith instruction. They are there, ultimately, to both tax and spend, wisely, and without intentionally ginning up community unrest or division over things outside of city business. There are other places than the council dais while on QCTV broadcast, for other things not within the scope of cogent unencumbered management of the city.

____________UPDATE___________

Specht has a facebook page with a host of photos. None show the State of Minnesota flags, neither the current version, nor prior ones. An unexpected thing, from having, along with the mayor, put a flag resolution into a city agenda. Motive from that circumstance, together with Specht's political party preference and conduct in other jurisdictions suggesting the flag thing was more politics than heartfelt Angst.

Crabgrass has downloaded a full page screen capture of those facebook photos, as of the time of this posting. Perhaps some flag images may be added in the future. But none are there now. That said, without tedious image scrutiny. Just, did not see a single flag image, except for the federal flag, on at least four images.

Just, don't engender discord, from the council table. It's demeaning. Stick to business.