Minnetonka Election Guide 2013

Minnetonka Patch is devoted to bringing you the information you need about every race in town. Check out these stories before you head to the polls. Be sure to return throughout election season. 

Live election night coverage:

• Live Results: Minnetonka Mayor and City Council
• Live Results: Minnetonka School Board
• Live Results: Hopkins School Board
• Live Results: Hopkins School District Levies

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Minnetonka City Council

Candidate Profiles: Mayor (Elect One)

• Terry Schneider
• Grace Sheely

Candidate Profiles: At Large Seat A (Elect One)

• Dick Allendorf
• Angela Griffin

Candidate Profiles: At Large Seat B (Elect One)

• Patty Acomb
• Brian Grogan

• Rick Ranta
• Dan Martin

Candidate Interviews

• How Would Minnetonka Candidates Balance Conflicting Community Demands?
• How Would Minnetonka Candidates Handle Redevelopment?
• What Type of Development Do Minnetonka Candidates Want? 
• What Issues Are Most Important to Minnetonka Candidates?
• How Would Minnetonka Candidates Ensure Fiscal Responsibility?
• What Do Minnetonka Candidates Think of the City Budget?
• What New Ordinances Do Minnetonka Candidates Want?

Stories

• ‘We’re a City of Drivers’: Grogan Stands Alone Against Southwest LRT
• Development Divides City Council Candidates
• Acomb Dominates Minnetonka At Large, Seat B Primary

Minnetonka School Board (Elect Three)

Candidate Profiles

• Heidi Garcia
• John Holcomb
  
• Deirdre Keller–Zucker
• Pam Langseth

Candidate Interviews

• How Would Minnetonka School Board Candidates Address Teacher Pay?
  
• What Do Minnetonka School Board Candidates Think of Testing?
  
• What Issues Do Minnetonka School Board Candidates Think Are Most Important?
  
• How Would Minnetonka School Board Candidates Handle Population Changes?
  
• What Do Minnetonka School Board Candidates Think About Open Enrollment?
• What Do Minnetonka School Board Candidates Think About Operating Levies?
  
• What Do Minnetonka School Board Candidates Think is the Biggest Challenge? 

Hopkins School Board (Elect Three)

Candidate Profiles

• Katie Fulkerson
  
• Warren Goodroad
• Gang Gary Jing
• Heather Hansen
  
• Michael Doobie Kurus
• Tobias McKenna (not actively campaigning)
• Betsy Scheurer Anderson
  

Candidate Interviews

• How Would Hopkins School Board Candidates Address Teacher Pay?
• What do Hopkins School Board Candidates Think of Unite Edina 273?
• How Would Hopkins School Board Candidates Foster Tolerance?
• What Issues Would Hopkins School Board Candidates Focus On?
• How Would Hopkins School Board Candidates Respond to Changing Populations?
• What Would Hopkins School Board Candidates Do About Open Enrollment?
• What Do Hopkins School Board Candidates Think About Operating Levies?

Stories

• What Are the Hopkins School Board Candidates Reading?
• FACTCHECK: Are Hopkins Schools Spending More Than They Take In?
• Hopkins School Board Candidate Withdraws
• Edina Detachment Issue Looms over Hopkins School Board Election

How to Vote

• Absentee Voting for 2013 Election Begins Friday

Other

• OPINION: Let’s Make It Personal at the Candidate Forums
• Where Can You Watch The 2013 Minnetonka and Hopkins Candidate Forums?