Final Endorsements

With one week remaining until the general election, I have decided it is time to endorse candidates in the race for Rogers City Council and Rogers Mayor. My decisions are based on who I want to serve with and where I think the most can be accomplished to benefit the City. None of the candidates formally approached me and asked for an endorsement. These are my opinions only.

City Council
Jay Bunting - I previously wrote a letter supporting Jay. See the link below.
Rob Bell - Along with Jay, Rob is the only other candidate I saw at Council Meetings. I base my decision on my interactions with Rob and Jay as members of the Planning Commission, as well at regularly scheduled Council meetings.

Mayor
If this election would have been 12 months ago, without a doubt I would have been supporting Scott Adams. For about 3 years, Scott and I were in the minority on several issues. In fact, I disagreed with Jason Grimm on a number of these issues during that time.

Overall, on most issues the three of us all agree on how to proceed. However in the past 12 months or so, it seems like there have been a couple of significant issues that I have not seen eye to eye with Scott and agree more with Jason. I am not going to go into any specific issues - they've been covered in the local media and in various letters to the editor(s).

That said I will be supporting Jason Grimm for Mayor.

I refuse to say anything negative about any of the candidates, as to why I am not supporting a particular candidate. There is enough of that at every other level.

Finally a new post...

Things have been a bit hectic for me recently, so I haven't had too much time to update my blog. I would like to thank those people that offered me support in completing my first marathon. Steph and I ran together in the Twin Cities Marathon. Despite getting soaked for the 1st half of the race (we ran by Sven Sungaard from Kare 11 thru downtown and I asked him if it was going to ran and he said not until the afternoon - LIAR!!!), we were able to finish in just over 5 hours. I was hoping for between 4:30 and 4:45 - next time. I was unable to run for 3 weeks right before the race, and I think it did in my legs.

Anyway, in the most recent edition of the Star News, I wrote a letter to the editor supporting Jay Bunting for Rogers City Council. A link is below:

http://erstarnews.com/content/view/4418/42/

I believe a similar letter will be in the Crow River News on Monday, Oct 13.

Since I am sure the "opposition" will not like my comments, any of those individuals who want to comment here will be able to do so only if they give their full name and e-mail on any posts. No more anonymous posts...my site...my rules!!!

Bummer about the Royals football team..I was hoping they would have defeated Becker.