Welcome back, all the people here hunting for whatever I was able to dig up about the people running in judicial races!
In addition to the races everyone knows are happening (President, US Senate, US House, Minnesota House) there’s some interesting stuff happening downballot this year.
- There’s a State Constitutional Amendment that involves renewing the law that puts lottery proceeds towards environmental conservation. (It expires in 2025; we’re voting to renew this to 2050.)
- Minneapolis has a contested school-board at-large race and a contested school board race in District 6.
- Minneapolis has a school funding levy.
- St. Paul has two city constitutional amendments: one would shift city races to presidential years, and the other would impose a property tax levy to provide day care subsidies.
- There are a number of contested judicial races.
Josh Martin put together a document with a list of all the Minneapolis races, which I’m happily using to determine which city legislative districts even have a contested race in Minneapolis (if anyone knows of a similar list for St. Paul, please let me know!)
I’m going to prioritize writing about the stuff I’ve listed out here plus State House district 61A, since that’s a race between a DFLer and a Green — for every other legislative seat you can safely assume that if I get around to writing about it, I will tell you to vote for the Democrat and not the Republican. (And ditto US House and US Senate. And the Presidency, obviously, but I’ll definitely write about that one for my own amusement if nothing else.)
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I hope the Lottery funding passes, it’s a no brainer, but I can see the rightwingers arguing that lotto proceeds shouldn’t be earmarked for this, but should be decided by the legislature. Just an FYI, as I heard on MPR this morning, leaving this ballot measure unmarked on your ballot counts as a “no” vote.
Please Vote YES on this reauthorization!