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Readers can identify with such bids and admire the courage that they require, even in candidates they don't otherwise support. Knowing that, I scratched my head twice last week about Jackie Cherryhomes, the former Minneapolis City Council president who is running for mayor after leaving office in defeat 12 years ago.
My first puzzlement was about this newspaper's decision to omit Cherryhomes from a series of five profiles of mayoral candidates. Her sixth-place showing in a Sept. But given the poll's statistical margin of error, she was nearly tied with two others who were profiled, businessman Cam Winton and former Hennepin County Board chair and another potential comebacker Mark Andrew.
The second time she gave me pause was when I asked about her attempt to revive her political career.
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She elucidated: Since , she's been the principal in Cherryhomes-Tyler Inc. Many of her projects have involved doing just what she tried to do for her Fifth Ward, on the city's near North Side, for 12 years on the City Council and for a decade before that as a community organizer and development director of the Northside Residents Redevelopment Council.
She's still trying to bring jobs, affordable housing, more transit and opportunity to the least advantaged parts of Minneapolis. But she works more directly with businesses, and has acquired deeper appreciation for the positive role they play in city betterment, she said. Further, she said, a mayoral bid is also not a comeback because the job of mayor and council member are quite different.
You elect a mayor to be a leader. Those points are well-taken. But the reality for year-old Cherryhomes is that she has struggled to be seen among the front-runners in the humongous, person mayoral race.
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Hers is no longer a familiar name. She has ceased City Hall lobbying during the campaign. Personal: Married to attorney F. They have one daughter and live in the Willard Hay neighborhood. Stadium position: Supports the stadium overall, praising it as a jobs creator, particularly for union members and minorities. Opposed financing it with gambling revenues.
Quotable moment: "We have a system that has a weak mayor but I'm not a weak woman, so I'm not going to be a weak mayor. Cherryhomes' political career began in when she unseated Van White, the only African-American member of the Minneapolis City Council at the time. Cherryhomes would represent the most diverse ward in the city for the next 12 years.
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Jackie cherryholmes biography images: A People’s History of the Homewood Neighborhood: Jackie Cherryhomes Malaika: So will you just give a little bio of yourself, who are you, what do you do? Ms. Cherryhomes: I'm Jackie Cherryhomes. I'm a government relations consultant, I own my own business. I'm a 38 year resident of North Minneapolis, born and raised in.
Turn up your support for this public resource and keep trusted journalism accessible to all. It was a time of racial friction in the city. In , there was a riot in North Minneapolis after a false rumor spread that a white police officer had shot a black teenager. Four months later, a white Minneapolis police officer, Jerry Haaf, was shot in the back by black gunmen.
Cherryhomes said she was harassed by white supremacists, and said Haaf's shooting was the moment Minneapolis lost its innocence.
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While on the city council, Cherryhomes was instrumental in the city's development of Block E on 6th Street and Hennepin Avenue downtown. The subsidy helped turn a empty parking lot into about , square feet of business space, but today much of that space sits vacant again. Some city leaders, including Mayor R.
Rybak, opposed the project and said it was corporate welfare, but supporters maintained it was a critical job creation measure. Rybak's position on the Target project was a centerpiece of his first campaign.
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Developers are also a major source of her campaign funding. She says that she would develop a jobs and economic development revolving loan fund, create incentives for companies that create and retain jobs for Minneapolis workers, and use those programs to recruit companies to under-employed areas. She wants to use more incentives to bring in companies to film locally, and would develop the surface parking lots downtown.
Cherryhomes also wants to create a fast track for small business permits and streamline permitting. Additionally, Cherryhomes has championed urban food gardens and said that her father's biggest frustration working with communities on community gardens was that they could not get ahold of vacant lots for permanent gardens.
She said that when her father died eight years ago, she promised him that if she did nothing else, "I would figure out how to get those lots free. Transit :. She'd like to create more bike routes and enhance pedestrian safety.