2020 Fall Candidate Forums - for November 3rd General Election
The League of Women Voters of Minnetonka, Eden Prairie, Hopkins will host three candidate forums this fall. These will be recorded without a live audience, and broadcast live and repeatedly on community cable and streaming video. Question submission has closed for all three forums. Videos will be posted below, as they become available.
Eden Prairie City Council: 7 PM, Thursday, September 24, 2020
Senate District 48 and House Districts 48A & B: 7 PM, Thursday, October 1, 2020
Eden Prairie School District : 7 PM, Wednesday, October 7, 2020
All three forums will be broadcast live on EPTV, the City's cable government access channel, and streamed live at edenprairie.org/CityTV and facebook.com/CityOfEdenPrairie. The candidate forums will be rebroadcast several times each week on city cable channels and available on-demand at edenprairie.org/CityTV leading up to Election Day. Links to the forum videos will be posted below when they are available.
Eden Prairie City Council: 7 PM, Thursday, September 24, 2020
Senate District 48 and House Districts 48A & B: 7 PM, Thursday, October 1, 2020
Eden Prairie School District : 7 PM, Wednesday, October 7, 2020
All three forums will be broadcast live on EPTV, the City's cable government access channel, and streamed live at edenprairie.org/CityTV and facebook.com/CityOfEdenPrairie. The candidate forums will be rebroadcast several times each week on city cable channels and available on-demand at edenprairie.org/CityTV leading up to Election Day. Links to the forum videos will be posted below when they are available.
Additional information for Voters: See below for information about each race, and the candidate forum video which will be posted when available. Early Voting by mail is open from September 18 through November 2, and General Election Day is Tuesday, November 3, 2020. Information on how to request an absentee ballot to vote by mail is available at the Minnesota Secretary of State website https://www.sos.state.mn.us/elections-voting/other-ways-to-vote/.
Please see MNVOTES.org for your sample ballot, voter information, and tracking your absentee ballot.
Please see MNVOTES.org for your sample ballot, voter information, and tracking your absentee ballot.
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Hennepin County District 6 Commissioner - The candidate forum was recorded on Oct. 8, 2020 for the general election. The candidates are Dario Anselmo and Chris LaTondresse. Click the Youtube video link to the right to hear their views on the issues.
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Senate District 48 and House Districts 48A and 48B - This district includes Eden Prairie and southern Minnetonka, shown in pale yellow on the map. The candidates for SD 48 Senate are Steve Cwodzinski (D) and Jeff Jiang (R). The candidates for HD 48A are Eric Wessels (R) and Laurie Pryor (D). The candidates for HD 48B are Carlie Kotyza-Witthuhn (D) and Holly Link (R). The candidate forum for these seats was on Thursday, Oct. 1 and will be rebroadcast repeatedly on city cable until November 3rd. The streaming video is posted below.
The Minnetonka cable schedule is; Mondays 2PM, Tuesdays 5PM, Wednesdays 5:30PM, Thursdays 5:30 PM. |
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Eden Prairie School District #272 - The candidates for three seats on the Eden Prairie School District Board are Maryam Abdi, Beth Fletcher, Tony Morimoto, Francesca Pagan-Umar, Kim Ross and C. J. Strehl. The candidate forum for these seats will be on Wednesday, Oct. 7 at 7 PM, broadcast live on EPTV and streaming video, and rebroadcast repeatedly until November 3rd. The video is posted at https://eden-prairie.granicus.com/player/clip/1518. The YouTube video will be posted when available.
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Eden Prairie City Council - The candidates for two seats on the Eden Prairie City Council are Ryan Miske, PG Narayanan and Lisa Toomey. The candidate forum for these seats was held on Thursday, Sept. 24 and is now available on streaming video, and rebroadcast repeatedly until November 3rd.
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Minnesota Supreme Court Associate Justice - One seat on the Minnesota Supreme Court has a challenger. The candidates are Paul Thessen and Michelle MacDonald. The candidate forum was held on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020. The streaming video is posted here.
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