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Abdi Warsame
Abdi Warsame is the executive director of the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority and a former Ward 6 representative on the Minneapolis City Council in Minnesota.[1]
First elected to the city council in 2013, he won re-election in the general election on November 7, 2017. Warsame resigned from his city council position on March 30, 2020, to start his executive director position the following day.[1]
Although municipal elections in Minneapolis are officially nonpartisan, candidates can choose a party affiliation to appear on the ballot.[2] Warsame ran as a DFL candidate.[3]
Biography
Warsame earned a B.S. in business from Middlesex University and a master's degree in international business from the University of Greenwich. His experience includes service as the founder and spokesman for the Citizen's Committee for Fair Redistricting, the executive director of the Riverside Plaza Tenants Association, and the board chair for the Cedar-Riverside Neighborhood Revitalization Program.[4][5]
Elections
2017
Minneapolis, Minnesota, held a general election for mayor, all 13 seats on the city council, both elected members of the board of estimate and taxation, and all nine members of the park and recreation board on November 7, 2017. The filing deadline for candidates who wished to run in this election was August 15, 2017.
Incumbents ran for re-election to all but two of the city council seats. Ward 3 Councilman Jacob Frey filed to run for mayor instead, and Ward 8 Councilwoman Elizabeth Glidden opted not to run for re-election.[6] Incumbent Abdi Warsame defeated Mohamud Noor, Fadumo Yusuf, and write-in candidate Tiffini Flynn Forslund in the general election for the Ward 6 seat on the Minneapolis City Council.[7]
| Minneapolis City Council, Ward 6 General Election, 2017 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Abdi Warsame Incumbent |
50.17% | 3,629 |
| Mohamud Noor | 46.86% | 3,390 |
| Fadumo Yusuf | 2.53% | 183 |
| Tiffini Flynn Forslund (Write-in) | 0.08% | 6 |
| Write-in votes | 0.36% | 26 |
| Total Votes | 7,234 | |
| Source: Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services, "2017 Minneapolis Election Results," accessed November 22, 2017 | ||
Campaign themes
2017
Warsame's campaign website listed the following priorities:
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We are stronger today than we were four years ago, but we have more work ahead. To improve our communities, we must stand together and:
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| —Abdi Warsame's campaign website, (2017)[9] | ||
See also
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External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Star Tribune, "Warsame resigns from Minneapolis council, will take helm of housing authority," March 30, 2020
- ↑ MinnPost, "Minnesota Loves to Brag About Turnout. But Minneapolis and St. Paul Residents Are Actually Pretty Bad About Voting in Municipal Elections," July 7, 2017
- ↑ City of Minneapolis, "Official Ballot," accessed November 3, 2017
- ↑ Minneapolis City Council, "About Abdi Warsame," accessed November 4, 2017
- ↑ Abdi Warsame - Ward 6 City Council, "Meet Abdi," accessed November 4, 2017
- ↑ Minneapolis Star Tribune, "Elizabeth Glidden Won't Seek Re-election to Minneapolis City Council," December 12, 2016
- ↑ Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services, "Candidate Filings - 2017," accessed August 16, 2017
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Abdi Warsame - Ward 6 City Council, "Home," accessed November 4, 2017
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