Posted August 31, 2005

For every seat available in an election, there's a odd ball candidate vying for it. We covered the Markus Harkus campaign last week. Now we look at Ward 3. There's the usual DFL and Green Party candidates throwing their hat into the ring and then there's Larry Leininger from the White Working Man's Party. The White Working Man's Party?! Yup. Larry, who is a Janitor at the University of Minnesota wants "To do something on the Council to not send any more nonwhite immigrants to Minneapolis... and have affirmative action for whites." He is anti-Jew, anti-immigration, and wants to abolish welfare, taxes and reestablish segregation. Whoa Larry. His past experience: Got 78 votes as a 2001 mayoral candidate. I think this ward should have a debate, I'd love to see this guy talk.