Since the riots protesting the death of a career criminal, I have lost 5 neighbors who fled the Merriam Park neighborhood in fear of the crime wave. I believe another just moved due to the six gunshots at 2:30 am in early October.

In the summer of 2020 , on the southeast corner of I94 and Cleveland there was a homeless camp in the shrubs between the cyclone fence and Noise abatement wall. Every morning I would find, on average, 20 needles in the street.

I borrowed a generator and an electric hack saw and, with a friend, cut the cyclone fence down, then swung it over to the noise abatement wall. Next I cleared out the camp, shrubs and weed trees, brought in dirt and seeded the area.

No more camp. No more needles in the street.

in 2022 on Valentine’s Day I was car jacked and on October 24 at 10:00 am I opened my garage door to find a criminal in the garage. He was attempting to steal items from my garage after he had broken in the service door. I gave chase, the police caught him and he landed in jail for two days.

My brother tells me to get out of St. Paul.

We ran from Saigon. We ran from Benghazi. We ran from Kabul.

I am not running from my home! I am running for Ward 4!

Cleveland and I94 before and after