Lilligren Videos

Videographer Craig Stellmacher writes:Mayor Rt Rybak gives his Victory Party Speech to supporters. Afterwards, DFL City Council Members stand at the Podium and pledge to work together. Then for the last 3 minutes, I talk to Mrs Rybak about the Mayor's Reinhold Niebuhr quote, and the meaning of art and life. I've had a dialogue with the Rybak's this year, because as an artist, I photographed 100 Abandoned Homes in Minneapolis. And with Mrs Rybak, we've discussed the use of art, to change the city. We are working together, to restore the North Branch Library in another uptake story. So, you can understand then, why I leaned up to his ear tonight right before the speech and said in his ear : "I thought you might win." And then I handed him a miniature music box, the size of a matchbox. When you turn the handle, it plays the song : "Imagine". Craig Stellmacher**http://the-uptake.groups.theuptake.org/en/videogalleryView/id/2552/

I run into Ward 6 City Council incumbent Robert Lilligren's Campaign Director outside the 3rd Precinct voting station and we talk for 15 minutes about a number of aspects of this election. Hot topic, especially in this Ward, is Instant Runoff Voting for our first election in Minneapolis.

We've heard a lot of what ranked choice voting or instant runoff voting means to voters this year in Minneapols, but what about the candidates? Matt Sampson is a campaign worker for Minneapolis Ward 6 Councilman Robert Lilligren. The UpTake's Craig Stellmacher ran into him right outside the polls on election day. They talk about how the new voting system has already produced some interesting results, in that two of Robert Lilligren's opponents, Laura Jean and Mike Tupper, campaigned together and cooperated against the incumbent for his Ward 6 City Council seat.