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Those challenges are what Rybak refers to as his accomplishments.

"Trying to regain lost state aid." If Minneapolis wants to waste money on $50,000 water fountains, expensive decorative street lamps, and a $2 MILLION city hall clock renovation, why don't they TAX THEIR OWN residents and pay for this stuff themselves instead of stealing money from outstate taxpayers who never set foot inside the city limits?

Exhibit A: Wilf's playground.

You mean RT's $700,000 artsy drinking fountains haven't attracted the masses to come spend money in MSP?

Considering the one party politics that Minneapolis practices, using the word Inherit in the title of the artcle is quite fitting.

at least he helped ensure that the billionaire from New Jersey can have his cake - minneaplis' slice of the pie - and eat it too.

It doesn't matter who gets the Mayoral chair. They will be cut from the same cloth as Rybak. Liberal Dem who loves to spend tax dollars on anything and everything that isn't a necessity. They haven't had a person as mayor or any council seat with any sense of fiscal conservativeness in decades. Mpls will get the mess they deserve because they habitually vote for leftists.

Amazing how many lies people post on here. Minneapolis contributes the most money to the state and gets very little back. it is the exurbs and out state that STEAL money from Minneapolis residents....and Minneapolis is far more fiscally conservative than suburbanites think...the real problem is you keep dumping your problems in the city. Visit a homeless shelter the families are from Stillwater, apple alley, Plymouth, lakeville...but you conservatives dump the problem on us.

It certainly won't be the next mayor, but eventually MPLS. will need to become a "Right to Work" city where true competitive bidding on all projects will get the lowest prices for all the boondoggles and Block E's that they come up with to spend/waste money. Talk about being on the edge of the Fiscal Cliff! MPLS. has been there for a long time and with RT checking out, it will only make going over the edge happen that much faster. The only thing that can possibly save MPLS. is the DFL state trifecta of House, Senate and GOV. The worst of the worst of course would be if Cherryholmes somehow won. As a dazzling suburbanite, I watch and wait, with hope in my heart and sadism in my belly praying that she wins, but only for the pure entertainment value.

Boy you would think reading this article you would have thought Bush and the Republicans caused the impending doom facing the next mayor.