Charles Carlson, whose campaign for Minneapolis City Council disintegrated after an exposé by the Minnesota Daily, apologized last weekend for lying to supporters and the media about his life and educational background. In an interview with KSTP…
Campaign contributors and volunteers for former Minneapolis city council candidate Charles Carlson are sending letters to Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman urging him to investigate Carlson. Fabrications in Carlson’s biography “were not merely unethical and wrong, they also likely were illegal,” says one volunteer.
When locals gather to choose delegates at DFL precinct caucuses Tuesday, three Minneapolis City Council candidates will be looking for the first signs of success from skills they picked up at a recent weekend at Camp Wellstone.
The one Minneapolis City Council seat in the clutches of the Green Party is likely to stay that way, unless a credible DFL candidate comes forward to take the place of Charles Carlson, the newly departed — and truly incredible — challenger to incumbent Cam Gordon. The Green stalwart, who won by 141 votes in 2005 after losing by only 106 votes in 2001, tells the Minnesota Independent he plans to campaign for re-election as usual but won’t be surprised if the DFL decides to endorse no one to oppose him.
Charles Carlson, a candidate for the Ward 2 seat on the Minneapolis City Council, dropped out of the race on Sunday, telling supporters that he has “an opportunity to…
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