{"id":43308,"date":"2025-10-20T14:23:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/?p=43308"},"modified":"2025-10-20T14:23:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:23:04","slug":"minneapolis-mayoral-candidate-forum-at-augsburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/2025\/10\/20\/minneapolis-mayoral-candidate-forum-at-augsburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Minneapolis Mayoral Candidate Forum at Augsburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2025\/10\/IMG_1543-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-43309 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2025\/10\/IMG_1543-scaled-e1760970142516.jpg\" alt=\"Image of Aidan Wippich leading the Augsburg Mayoral Forum, with 9 candidates on stage.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2025\/10\/IMG_1543-scaled-e1760970142516.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2025\/10\/IMG_1543-scaled-e1760970142516-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2025\/10\/IMG_1543-scaled-e1760970142516-1024x481.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2025\/10\/IMG_1543-scaled-e1760970142516-768x361.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2025\/10\/IMG_1543-scaled-e1760970142516-1536x722.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2025\/10\/IMG_1543-scaled-e1760970142516-2048x962.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Sabo Center and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/campuslife\/campus-involvement\/student-government\/\">Augsburg Day Student Government<\/a> co-hosted a 2025 mayoral candidate forum for the city of Minneapolis. Nine candidates came to the forum, including several of the leading candidates. Student leader Aidan Wippich of the Day Student Government led and moderated the forum discussion, which included a number of questions relevant to the Augsburg community and the broader community of Minneapolis. Questions included things like <em>In 2025, as stated by the Minneapolis crime dashboard, we have seen a 3% increase in assaults from years prior. How do you plan to address the issue of rising crime?<\/em> and <em>How do you plan to work with the city council to get things done?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the audience, there were many students, staff and faculty from the Augsburg community in attendance who were interested in learning more about the candidates, especially given they have the opportunity to vote for several candidates with [ranked choice voting](https:\/\/vote.minneapolismn.gov\/ranked-choice-voting\/).<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not you are voting in Minneapolis, election day is November 4, 2025. This is an Augsburg holiday, meaning there are no classes! If you are able to do so, there are many important elections this year. At the Sabo Center, we have resources to help you learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/vote\/\">how and where to vote<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the Sabo Center and Augsburg Day Student Government co-hosted a 2025 mayoral candidate forum for the city of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":619,"featured_media":43309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,30,54,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civic-agency","category-civic-skills","category-democracy","category-place-based-community-engagement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/619"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43310,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43308\/revisions\/43310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}