Age: 58, Party or principal: Independent, Job and title: Bakery-Deli staff, Lunds Uptown grocery store, Neighborhood: Bancroft, Website: www.electiontrendsproject.org/contribute

Priority, if elected: I mean to spend four years as mayor helping neighbors energize their neighborhoods. Strong neighborhoods make a strong city, and each has its own character. The city will partner with the neighborhood associations and others to fill in and beautify the business nodes, and add attractive bike and walking routes. In four years, we'll celebrate the city's 160th anniversary, toasting the history and diverse food and music of our people. All of them. I want to be able to crow about how Jordan and Phillips attract tourists and locals, too. Uptown Art Fair? How about Jordan Jamboree!

Ideas for job/population growth: Continue to improve transit; fund job training and loans for small business; work with the neighborhood associations to promote commercial development of business nodes.

Ideas for reducing crime: Expand the DID Ambassador program; continue to develop smart policing; more police on foot; more community involvement. Crime is lower than any time since 1970!

Ideas to lower property taxes: Continue filling in vacant land, especially over North and downtown; revise city rules that inhibit business; continue to bring city offices back into City Hall.

Did you support or oppose the Minnesota Vikings stadium package, approved by the city in May 2012? Opposed. If the banks won't loan money to build this, why is it a good investment for city and state?

Should the city build a $200 million streetcar line along Nicollet and Central Avenues? Yes.

Should the mayor be allowed to appoint some school board members? No.

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