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Bob Miller announced this afternoon that he’s dropping out of the race for Minneapolis mayor — for now. Word that Miller, who heads the city’s Neighborhood Revitalization Program, would “suspend” his challenge to Mayor R.T. Rybak for the DFL Party endorsement came just hours after Rybak delivered his State of the City address (more [...]

In a clever distraction from dire predictions about its fate, the Pioneer Press has launched a late-winter companion to its popular Winter Carnival medallion hunt. The PiPress blog City Hall Scoop notes the appearance of a new anti-Chris Coleman blog called MyMayorIsCheatingOnMe.com:
But who’s behind it? … many are unsure — but they’re trying to find out. [...]

I learned about this, appropriately, on Facebook: Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak’s face appears on the front of this month’s Governing magazine. Stifle that yawn — for public officials, it’s the equivalent of getting your picture on the cover of Rolling Stone.

Two years ago Barack Obama told his early supporters in the nascent “Draft Obama” movement that he wanted no part of a “vanity campaign” in which he would make nice speeches and then lose. He was also wary of developing a “cult of personality,” Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak told Minnesota Public Radio by phone this morning from the site of Obama’s inauguration.

Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak’s announcement Tuesday that he’ll run for re-election means there’ll be a two-man race for the DFL endorsement, at least according to the other man: Rybak rival Bob Miller. Miller’s prediction was borne out, for now anyway, by City Council Member Ralph Remington, who confirmed he won’t run for mayor now that Rybak’s in the race.

“Politics is not an exact science,” said the German and Prussian statesman Otto von Bismarck. Another politician whose name ends with the letter K might beg to differ: Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak says, about his relationship with the Obama administration: “This is working out exactly as I would want it.” That’s similar to what he told the Southwest Journal: “I live exactly where I want to be … I am exactly where I need to be right now.” Turns out that Rybak, more than being Mr. Minneapolis or Mr. Mayor, is actually Mr. Exact. See his litany of exactitude after the jump.

Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak announced today he is running for re-election. The announcement took the form of a mayoral message on Twitter directing people to a video on YouTube, which in turn directed viewers to his new campaign Web site, where surfers can further connect to his Facebook page. Rybak’s only announced rival (aside from perennial candidate Dick Franson) is [...]

The Autopia blog at Wired magazine’s Web site favors Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak for secretary of transportation in the new Obama administration. In an article titled, “Obama’s Transportation Secretary Must Be a Visionary,” Wired opines:
[T]he best guy for the job may well be R.T. Rybak, the forward-thinking mayor of Minneapolis. He’s made sensible and sustainable [...]

Mayor R.T. Rybak of Minneapolis did an excellent job today on Minnesota Public Radio, extolling the virtues of the proposed urban policy office in President-elect Barack Obama’s White House. He did a fairly miserable job of professing a lack of interest in whether Obama might offer him the job running it.

Already by Tuesday, two men had tiptoed onto Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak’s turf this week. The city’s revitalization chief, Bob Miller, says he’ll run for the mayor’s job next year, the Southwest Journal reports. And on Monday Gov. Tim Pawlenty made a move on the green-jobs territory that Rybak — joined by another guv-wanna-be, St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman — has spent years staking out. Meanwhile, as Pawlenty gears up for a potential presidential bid in 2012, a different Minneapolis official threw his hat in the ring for governor: State Rep. Paul Thissen (DFL).