Not only is Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey running for re-election, he’s also dealing with twin crises after one of the most difficult years in the city’s history. Frey joins as the first guest in the new season of ‘Beers with Blois,’ focused on candidates in the 2021 Minneapolis election, to discuss the ongoing public safety debate and divide, rent and housing, preserving downtown, the “strong mayor” government structure proposal floated by the Charter Commission, having a kid during amidst a tumultuous first term, and so much more.
Blois is joined by Jerry Hammer, the CEO of the Minnesota State Fair. He’s been working at the Fair since he was a teenager and knows all the inside information including how to have a new food, new concept and politics at the Fair.
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Blois sits down and shares a drink in St. Paul with Andrea Yoch, Twin Cities businesswoman and now President and Co-founder of the Minnesota Women's Soccer league, the Minnesota Aurora.
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Blois shares a drink with the president & CEO of the Minnesota Twins, Dave St. Peter, at the Freehouse in Minneapolis.
Blois shares a cold one at The Lexington with former World Cup Soccer and professional soccer player Tony Sanneh, who now leads the Sanneh Foundation which helps thousands of kids throughout Minnesota.
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On this week's Sunday Take with WCCO political analyst Blois Olson, he catches up with AJ Awed who is running for Mayor of Minneapolis. Plus majority leader of the Minnesota House of Representatives Ryan Winkler, and Minnesota Senator Karin Housley both discuss the potential special session on COVID frontline worker relief.
This week, WCCO political analyst Blois Olson talks to Steve Simon, Minnesota's Secretary of State who announced he will run for re-election, Steve Hunegs the Executive Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council, and with this week's media roundtable with TPT's Mary LaHammer and Laura McCallum the Star Tribune's Politics and Government Editor.
Blois talks to John Stanoch, a former Hennepin County District Judge on the huge week in courts and politics. He then chats with journalist Rebecca Brannon who was working on the Lazarro story in February. Finally, Peter Callaghan of MinnPost and Steve Karnowksi of AP join for a media roundtable on the biggest stories of the week.
In the first edition of our new show "Sunday Take" hosted by WCCO political analyst Blois Olson, he talks to Ramsey County Attorney John Choi about their new policy on low-level traffic stops, the new head of the Minnesota Senate GOP Jeremy Miller who is replacing gubernatorial candidate Paul Gazelka, plus talks politics with Torey Van Oot from Axios and Ricardo Lopez of the Minnesota Reformer.
Ward 11 City Council candidate Dillon Gherna had a blue-collar upbringing in the Michigan mining town of Calumet, but fell in love with the cosmopolitan City of Lakes upon moving here at 18 years old. On this episode, hear Gherna discuss his approach toward public safety, his views on the city’s housing needs, and challenging an incumbent in a consequential election year for the city.
First Transit project manager Steven Frich believes he has what it takes to win the competitive Ward 10 City Council seat left vacant by departing Council President Lisa Bender. Hear the candidate discuss his platform – aligned with a Democratic Socialist vision – and what a Minneapolis under this ideology would look like.
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