When Rep Kaohly Her defeated Mayor Melvin Carter III in the recent Mayoral Election on November 4th 2025, she will leave the Minnesota State Legislature to become the first Woman Mayor of St Paul Minnesota. She vacates the House District 64A Seat. This requires a Special Election before the next State Legislative Session starts on February 17, 2026.
The Special Election is to be held on Tuesday January 27th, 2026. Only those voters who live in House District 64A (see above map) can vote in this special election.
While this special election is outside of our district, helping Dan Walsh get elected is good hands-on training for next year’s campaign season where we need to help SD 66, HD 66B, US Senate, Governor/ Lt Governor, Secretary of State, MN Attorney General, and State Auditor Candidates to win their races.
This post was not authorized by any candidate, candidate’s committee, PAC, MNGOP, CD4 GOP, nor SD 64 GOP. It’s just a heads up notice to help with a special election in St Paul MN. — admin
With the every snowfall just a reminder to dig out the Fire Hydrants as soon as you can. Also if there is a Metro Transit Bus Stop near your house, dig it out too. Your neighbors who ride the bus will thank you.
We never get tired of this video below. Okay it is a little bit corny but the message of cleaning off the nearest fire hydrant to your house is an important one. Time is of the essence when the nearest Ladder Company of the St Paul’s Bravest show up to put out a fire. Let us say that again, Time is very important to saving lives in a fire. If a firefighter has to waste time digging a hydrant out of a snow bank, your loved one, or your pets, or your neighbors, and their pets could die.
You can take turns with your neighbor over who gets to do the honor of Digging out the Hydrant.
This article was re-posted by permission of Saintpaulrepublicans.us. It was published on December 16, 2017. — admin
There have been 2 Ballot Questions added to the St Paul Ballots in the November 4th General Election. One of them was put on the ballot by a petition spearheaded by Peter Butler. In 2024 he successfully got the Ballot question of moving Mayoral and City Council Elections to the Presidential year starting in 2028.
This year he got the City Fine Ballot Question onto the Ballot. I, Publius Jr, remember signing this petition outside of the Local Republican Party Convention of which I caucus with. Voting Yes for the Ballot Question actually makes it harder for residents to appeal decisions by the City. The Vote Yes for a Fairer St Paul are actually lying about how this makes it fairer for St Paul Residents.
The Second Ballot question is about giving the Independent School District 625 (St Paul Public Schools) $37 million more. No amount of your money has improved the school district. From Schooldigger.com that ranks schools across the country through a variety of metrics, shows St Paul Public Schools ISD 625 flatlined it’s performance and educational excellence. They rank in the lower 22% of School Districts in the state. Their enrollment is dropping due to the curriculum, but mostly due to the current board members advocating for removal of School Resource Officers (SROs) and not suspending nor expelling disruptive or violent students. Remember Devin Scott might be alive today if he wasn’t murdered on his first day of class at Harding High School on February 10, 2023 because the school lacked SROs.
St Paul DFL Supports a YES Vote on Both Ballot Qns is Illegal
St Paul DFL earlier in the year became a defunct political organization, when they didn’t hold a caucus to elect delegates & alternates, and leaders of the organization. If they don’t have leaders or delegates & alternates they cease being a party unit.
Then they recently sent out Campaign material that shows “St Paul DFL Supports” Yes votes on the Ballot questions. This is illegal because who voted for this? Fred Melo, the St Paul Beat Reporter for Pioneer Press talks about this in his report on October 27, 2025.
Peter Butler then filed a complaint against Rick Varco who is the St Paul DFL Treasurer, as well as the treasurer for the “Vote Yes for a Fairer St Paul” group. The hearing by the MN Court of Administrative Appeals would be a week after the election. Sounds almost as if those lit pieces were sent knowing any complaint would not be heard before the election. But then something Happened. His complaint against Rick Varco was dismissed without a hearing. Amazing how fast DFL Justice happens when one of their own is being held accountable.
Here’s the dismissal document from Peter Butler click here: Order of Dismissal
Then the new St Paul Republican City Committee (SPRCC) Chair Greg Copeland sent out a letter to the Pioneer Press Letters to the Editor, and others in response to the dismissal of the complaint. We’re posting it because no one else will.
SPRCC Greg Copeland’s Letter Addressing St Paul DFL’s Illegal Action
“The haste applied by the Court to dispatching Peter Butler’s complaint without a hearing, given the absence of any reply filing by DFLer Rick Varco seeking a dismissal, strikes me as a process falling far short of even the appearance of passing for “Justice”.
How can Citizens have any confidence in the conduct of their elections when there is such flagrant disinterest on the part of those Public Officials paid to Oversee the ways in which questionable campaign spending raises legitimate concerns that voters are being misled about who is financing political advertisements that advocate adoption of 10 years of additional new property taxes, and a law to levy new city fines on citizens in referendum elections.
Especially in this case where Saint Paul citizens will be subject to a host of new financial penalties and fines for violations of City Codes as well as an average $300 per home property tax hike!
It is ironic too that given the fact that Citizens have the power to cast ballots in the matter of new city fines only due to Citizen Volunteers working successfully to collect hundreds of signatures to require this referendum election.
I am thankful that the Pioneer Press put the facts in great detail on their October 28 front page seeking an answer to “Who is sending those DFL mailings?”; and declaring, “The local party unit doesn’t exist, yet it is advocating for votes”. Unfortunately the MN Court of
Administrative Hearings refuses to give these questions a Public Hearing.
Citizens should Vote NO Tuesday on both referendums given the lack of basic accountability. This lack of government transparency requires the People to reject Granting the City any authority to levy new fines and yet more property taxes.
Greg Copeland
Chairman
Saint Paul Republican City Committee”
Greg Copeland, SPRCC Chair, elected in June 2025
This post was not authorized by any candidate, or candidate’s committee, PAC, or the Republican Party of Minnesota. We did get permission to repost the article “SPRCC Chair Calls for St Paul DFL to be held Accountable,” from the Saintpaulrepublicans.us which posted it on November 3rd 2025. — admin
This is near MacKubin Street looking towards Dale St on Maryland Ave W
The above picture is what is seen at night looking west a half block west of MacKubin on Maryland Ave West toward Dale St.
Getting a little closer to the Railroad Bridge near Kent St and Maryland Ave West. There’s no light except for the occasional car that passes by.
This is near Sandstrom Windows near the Railroad Over pass at Kent St. Across the street is Marydale Park.This photo is taken about a block west of Kent St at Danforth St walking East on Maryland Ave West.
Looking east near Danforth on Maryland Ave West.
The ability to keep the street lights on some city streets can pose a hazard to those driving a car, motorcycle, or a bike at night. Can you see the pillars of the overhead Railroad bridge? No?
8 Years of Mayor Melvin Carter III has produced Darkness
Took a walk down to Conny’s Creamy Cone on a Summer Night. The stark darkness between MacKubin St and Danforth St on Maryland Avenue is uncanny. I took the photos above.
This is not a recent occurrence. All throughout his tenure as what Mayor Carter says and what is, are two different things.
Nearby Marydale Park had it’s lights extinguished over at least a year or so. It seemed like there was no interest in turning the lights back on. There was a man living in the park that entire time. He lived near the raised railroad tracks in the park in a make shift shelter through a winter and a half. He moved his make shift shelter down to Lake Loeb the polluted lake in the middle of Marydale Park.
The benches and picnic tables and grills seem like they may have been new in the 1960s or even before that. Nearby Como Park has had updates nearly every year. Marydale Park not so much. They do have a Kato pitch there where you can see Hmong Americans kick a wicker ball like a cross between Hackey Sack and Volleyball.
There was a time during Mayor Carter’s second term that the lights around Lake Como and the walking trails around Como Park were not lit. There were a lot of complaints but eventually their lights were turned back on but Marydale, not so much.
Copper thieves you say? Maybe it’s a lack of good paying jobs, or the good businesses have left the city that people have to resort to stealing catalytic converters or stealing copper wire from street lamps? The manufacturing base left a long time ago. Toro left, the 3M Headquarters relocated to just over the St Paul and Maplewood border and all it’s former plants are now parking lots.
Where’s that Billion Dollars worth of investment in St Paul Melvin Carter mentioned in the LWV Forum?
Downtown St Paul is a ghost town. Junkies and thugs hanging around bus stops looking to buy and sell drugs.
The Veterans Center in the US Bank building’s corner at Minnesota & 5th still has the stickers of the US Army, USMC, US Navy, US Coastguard, and the US Air Force on the windows but the center has been vacant for a very long time.
When was the last time there was a Parade down Rice Street or White Bear Avenue? When did we last have Official Fireworks on the 4th of July from the City of St Paul? In 2017 when Mayor Chris Coleman was mayor. Since then there hasn’t been enough money to do it.
Yet there’s money for college savings accounts, or savings accounts, or the $500 a month to a handful of people to study if Universal Basic Income can work here. There was also money to pay off medical debt of people who could probably get another person or company to pay it off. These are not functions of government. They are functions of Vote Buying. If we had a Law and Order MN Attorney General, Mayor Carter might be in prison for influencing the vote by giving money to people who otherwise might not vote.
Remember the 1% sales tax to fix roads in St Paul? Mayor Carter was bragging about using that money to re-sod a rec center. The road construction in downtown St Paul looks like state money by Governor Walz.
Arcade, Dale St and soon to be the entire stretch of Rice street have or will get road diets. Main arteries that had 4 lanes of traffic will have 2 lanes and a seldom used middle lane. Maryland Avenue between Johnson Parkway and Greenbriar was supposed to be a 6 month trial but now it’s permanent and the road diet goes all the way down to Arkwright on Maryland Ave East.
Then there’s the threat to clear cut century old trees on Summit Avenue for a bike trail that isn’t needed. Adam Dullinger could be a project manager for that he seemed like he wanted to leave the company that he works at to making more bike lanes and connections. His comments at the LWV forum seemed like he wanted to work for Mayor Carter if he wins a 3rd term.
Max Sanders never asked a question about that project. A project the city can’t afford to do because we don’t have the money for it.
The Maryland Supermarket has had 1000s of calls about shots fired, 2 murders, car accidents, speeding, and drug dealing. Oh you’re not suppose to bother the St Paul Police about guys selling drugs in handshake sales through car windows that drive up. A landlord nearby called to complain about the narcotics sold there and was told by the St Paul Police that he should stop bothering them unless there is a shooting. Interesting as they also have had a St Paul Police Camera Pole at that property all summer long. Is someone in Chief Axel Henry’s Police Force on the take? St Paul had that reputation about 100 yrs ago. The recent “Blue Surge” there is just a show, they aren’t serious about arresting any of the drug dealers there because there have been no arrests nor has the store been shut down either. The dealers will still hang around and then when the night comes on they are back to selling drugs. Wondering what Mayor Carter and Councilwoman Kim might say about that? The Fentanyl task force is being successful?
If you vote for any of the DFLers running in this race, there’s 4 of them, then you can expect more of the same you are voting for more darkness, or…
You can vote for Mike Hilborn the only REASONABLE choice in this election. He’s the light in the darkness like in the photo below.
This is near Sandstrom Windows near the Railroad Over pass at Kent St. Across the street is Marydale Park.
this post was not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee. This is not an endorsement, it is a REASONABLE Suggestion to vote for the only sane choice in this election, Mike Hilborn, is very REASONABLE. The ideas of the others is very unreasonable, insane, and more of the same status quo. No one believes the claims of violent crime going down. They have just re-classified crimes or redefined them. If you disagree they will fine you when the City Fine Ballot question passes, so vote NO on that and to deny St Paul Public Schools more money for a school district with a declining enrollment because the schools are unsafe because the School Board removed SROs. Remember Devin Scott was murdered on their watch at Harding High School. Also don’t rank your votes either. It should be 1 person 1 vote. — admin
Minnesota House District 66B Republicans 