Kate Mortenson

Civic Leader, Entrepreneur, Advocate, Believer in a better city. [email protected]

[Kate Mortenson @VoteKateMpls]

@plattMSP Ack. Council not qualified to be playing Jenga with our MPLS economy.

[Kate Mortenson @VoteKateMpls]

Rush hour…Amsterdam

[Kate Mortenson @VoteKateMpls]

It takes all of us to build a better country, and I’m a part of it! I earned my National Changemaker badge from @actblue by supporting a campaign at the federal level. Join me! https://t.co/FCXCxXLb90

[Kate Mortenson @VoteKateMpls]

New volume of the newsletter is out. Working Title: "Whose fault is it? A Don Samuels invite, and What we can do better, now". Join my Send List at [email protected] Tell me what you think!

[Kate Mortenson @VoteKateMpls]

Remember to lift up @icpprez71 and others who sacrificed their careers to push this forward when it was ‘anti-police’.

[Elliott Payne @ElliottForWard1]

“(BCR) is the beginning of a foundation of an entire new way of thinking about safety in our city,” said Minneapolis City Council President Elliott Payne, who worked on the team that helped launch the program before running for office.

[Kate Mortenson @VoteKateMpls]

@MplsWard1 @ElliottForWard1 @MayorFrey @MplsWard5 Nice. Let’s celebrate what IS working, together.

[Kate Mortenson @VoteKateMpls]

@plattMSP Just so I understand: mind boggling why? Because it’s so true, because it’s untrue?

[Kate Mortenson @VoteKateMpls]

I’m will @JChavezMpls on this. Problems of non-payment for services is an administrative issue.

[Jason Chavez - Minneapolis Ward 9 @MplsWard9]

The City Council approved contract amendments for our unarmed public safety program.

I spoke against my colleagues attempted motion to delay this work.

This would have caused a disruption of public safety services in Central, Powderhorn, Corcoran & East Lake Street. 1/

[Kate Mortenson @VoteKateMpls]

@JoshMartinMpls ‘International Relations’ lol

[Kate Mortenson @VoteKateMpls]

Thanks ⁦@laura_yuen⁩ for breaking the seal on this issue of accountability. Yuen: The Minneapolis City Council is showing us the dysfunction of disrespectful politics. https://t.co/KQTLgSb7zt

[Kate Mortenson @VoteKateMpls]

No preventable death is ‘fine’ AND yet more people die of opioid overdose than pedestrian/car deaths and guess at the trend. We’ve lost perspective if the point is to save the most lives.

[Andrew Hazzard @ATHazzard]

A man who worked at nightingale died crossing Lyndale to access that “safe and convenient parking” about five years ago.

[Kate Mortenson @VoteKateMpls]

@nickhaltermpls It’ll be a new look for sure

[Kate Mortenson @VoteKateMpls]

I learned during the Final Four how important it is to pay creatives for their work and it makes total sense. Would I not pay any other professional? https://t.co/DKzz313lkN

[Kate Mortenson @VoteKateMpls]

Don’t let’s go there, Mpls. via @NYTimes https://t.co/B38BtDcT0S

[Kate Mortenson @VoteKateMpls]

Unwise to trumpet Sanctuary City. Mpls is still in Solving Unsheltered Homelessness 101 and Bus loads More New Arrivals is a 500 level course.

[Kyle Stokes @kystokes]

@BullyCreative @gruntmezera (1a) …so we got a pretty general answer about how Mpls is a sanctuary city, but ‘I don’t know what goes into a statewide bill’

Goes to show: Off-topics at a press conference often result in either “I’ll look into that” or a stock answer you learn little from. No room to go deep

[Kate Mortenson @VoteKateMpls]

I was at the event and can provide this context:
Actual downtown biz leaders are focused on keeping their workforce. They do not want or need pressure from the Mayor to get their employees downtown asap to solve his challenges. 🧵In this sense the joke was tone deaf x2.

[Josh Martin @JoshMartinMpls]

Those workers are upset about Mayor Frey clearly supporting a bunch of downtown business leaders over them.

The fact that he expressed that support through a dumb joke is just icing on the cake.

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[Kate Mortenson @VoteKateMpls]

Saint Paul Council stands tall by favoring individual action in response to Israel-Gaza war. https://t.co/AIy1oABcwz

[Kate Mortenson @VoteKateMpls]

Or we could make a transit deal w UFOs .. A 700-mph tunnel between Twin Cities and Rochester? Group wants $2M from Met Council for ‘hyperloop’ study.. https://t.co/sjpKCtlNBQ

[Kate Mortenson @VoteKateMpls]

how long ‘til the buses from Florida and Texas start arriving?

[The Minnesota Star Tribune @StarTribune]

Leaders from Hennepin County, Minneapolis and other local governments are backing efforts by DFL lawmakers to make Minnesota a sanctuary state for immigrants in the U.S. without legal authorization. https://t.co/LdUHoOQL9B

[Kate Mortenson @VoteKateMpls]

Remember when we hosted the Super Bowl? One thing that makes us special is winter. :(

[John Rent @johnerent]

This is the stuff we could do more of if we got the buses off Nicollet. A 50-foot-long ice bar right on Nicollet, with a nice turn-out on an early Wednesday afternoon! The festival goes for several more days, so get there before the bar melts!! #mymplsdt #mplsdowntown