There are a number of contested County Commissioner races in both Ramsey County and Hennepin County this year. This is a Hennepin County post.

There are two candidates on the ballot:

Marion Greene (Incumbent, DFL-endorsed)
Ashley Boldin

Marion Greene has been on the Hennepin County Board since 2014. She was unopposed for endorsement at the DFL convention this spring and sailed through (and has endorsed Mary Moriarty, I saw when I went looking for whether she’d had any challengers for endorsement). Her accomplishments page is impressive. Ashley Boldin uses a lot of buzzwords, has no endorsements that I could find, and hasn’t posted on her social media since early September.

I would vote for Marion Greene.

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