Here’s who’s running:

Elliott Payne (DFL)
Edwin B. Fruit (Socialist Worker Party)

This is one of the very straightforward ones to write up, because Elliott Payne, the incumbent, has been a solid progressive on the City Council, and I like him a lot. He is endorsed by the DFL (and by lots of progressive groups, various local unions, etc.)

Edwin Fruit is running with the Socialist Worker party, and like all their candidates, he links to “The Militant” as his website, which means you can go there and read about their take on the Argentine elections but not about Edwin’s priorities for Minneapolis. Edwin has also run for office in Iowa (for US House in 2002) and in Seattle (for City Council in 2013, as a write-in). He was party to a lawsuit in Maryland in 1989 challenging filing fees for ballot access. I would not vote for him for anything he’s run for, but that’s fine, because Elliott is great.

I have a book coming out this fall, in November! Liberty’s Daughter is near-future SF about a teenage girl on a libertarian seastead. A lot of it was originally published as short fiction in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. You can pre-order it in either book or ebook format from whatever you like.

I do not have a Patreon or Ko-Fi, so if you’d like make a donation to encourage my work, check out this first-year art teacher at Lucy Laney who is raising money to provide easels, drying racks, and art materials for her students. (Previously: a new Art teacher at Jenny Lind elementary who needs to stock her classroom with supplies — funded!)