Cam Gordon

If elected officials hang around a public chamber with intent to take action but don’t actually decide anything, can they be guilty of governing?

Who “lurks” and with what intent were the questions of the day at Wednesday’s meeting of the Minneapolis City Council Public Safety and Regulatory Services Committee. Council Member Cam Gordon said the [...]

The Minneapolis City Council voted this morning on logistics for adopting instant-runoff or ranked-choice voting in the city, but the ordinance cleared without unanimous support and only after significant debate on an amendment to count mismarked ballots.

Instant runoff lets voters rank candidates in order of preference. Council member Cam Gordon introduced an amendment that would [...]

Minneapolis City Councilman Cam Gordon writes on his Second Ward blog about the city’s resolution supporting this week’s Human Rights Torch Relay between the University of Minnesota and the state Capitol: “This is part of an international effort to help raise awareness about and change the inhumane, unjust and oppressive practices of the Chinese government… [...]

Minneapolis City Council Member Cam Gordon prodded his peers a bit during today’s meeting about the city’s slow-moving progress preparing for instant run-off elections. Minneapolis voters passed a ballot amendment in 2006 ordering the city to switch to instant run-off, or ranked choice, elections beginning next year.

“I think there is a pretty big time crunch [...]