Edited Audio of today's forum with St. Paul's Ward 2 Council Candidates is here: (or click on Title below): http://bit.ly/Ward2StPaulForum. Candidates present were: DAVE THUNE – incumbent. Chair, St. Paul HRA. DFL-endorsed; JIM IVEY – software developer residing and working in Lowertown. Endorsed by the Green Party of St. Paul and TakeActionMN; BILL HOSKO – Artist and picture-framer in downtown St. Paul. Ran against Thune in 2007. Independent; CYNTHIA SCHANNO – aircraft broker at Holman Airfield. Independent; SHARON ANDERSON – perennial candidate in Ward 2. Insists she still owns a house at 1058 Summit Ave lost decades ago in a tax forfeiture. Retired. Republican.
The St. Paul City Council and School Board elections will garner much attention – not only for the large number of candidates challenging incumbents, but as a test for the city’s and county election bureau’s implementation of the new voter-approved Ranked Choice Voting system, which eliminated the t...
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TTT’s ANDY DRISCOLL and MICHELLE ALIMORADI conduct a conversation among these five candidates.
DAVE THUNE – incumbent. An artist (he owns a West 7th St. gallery and coffee shop) and West End community activist, he’s completing his second term of this new round after previously serving eight years through the 1990’s. (Disclosure: your writer challenged Dave Thune in 1993) He lives in Irvine Park and is DFL-endorsed.
JIM IVEY – is a software developer with his wife, residing and working in Lowertown St. Paul for the last ten years. Among his interests: Urban gardening and curling. Endorsed by the Green Party of St. Paul and TakeActionMN.
BILL HOSKO – Artist and picture-framer in downtown St. Paul. States that he resides at Kellogg Square downtown. Small business booster and self-described government watchdog. Ran against Thune in 2007. Independent.
CYNTHIA SCHANNO – is an aircraft buyer and seller based at Holman Airfield. A native St. Paulite, she started as an accountant out of St. Thomas, but has flown since her teens. She was a Norm Coleman appointee to the Saint Paul Downtown Airport Taskforce. She sees the airport as an underutilized tie to city’s economic development. Independent.
SHARON ANDERSON – has been a perennial candidate for just about every office in Minnesota, and it doesn’t seem to bother her that she no longer resides in Ward 2, which should render her ineligible to vote, let alone run for the City Council seat there, which she has deone many times. Ms. Anderson continues to insist she still owns a house at 1058 Summit Ave., which everyone else insists she lost in a tax forfeiture at least 30 years ago. She continues to list that house as her official residence and no one steps forward to challenge her right to run in this ward. She is retired. Republican.
