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...website. Schmidt said that as a retiree he would have time to spend on city issues.He described the incumbent candidates, Bob Olson and Mary Koep, as cronies and said it was time for new blood."The seats in the chamber are actually molded...
...and city races, Torfin expects the status quo to prevail. Specifically, he said he saw Brainerd City Council candidate Bob Olson and Crow Wing County Board candidate Mary Koep as disruptive forces. "I think the normal ones will win," Torfin...
...city elected officials are rude. Fitzsimmons is sharing campaign signs and a platform with at-large council candidates Bob Olson and Mike Brusseau and Ward 3 council candidate Jim Sykes of northeast Brainerd. Olson and Brusseau have not officially...
...other candidates may be privy to questions prior to the debate. Matt Taylor, who is making the request, produces candidate Bob Olson's ... television show and Mr. Olson is the landlord for Mr. Taylor's downtown business." Olson, who along...
...surfaced this political season in a recent political advertisement in the Brainerd Dispatch taken out by council candidates Bob Olson, Robert Fitzsimmons, Jim Sykes and Mike Brusseau, who are running as a team. The ad is misleading because it...
...Fitzsimmons, who is running on a platform to open government with Ward 3 candidate Jim Sykes and at-large candidates Bob Olson and Mike Brusseau, said he is running to be a voice for the people. "We need to make sure all the decisions...
...not necessarily based on facts. The editorial writer of the Brainerd Dispatch claims a political ad by council candidates Bob Olson, Mike Brusseau, Jim Sykes and Robert Fitzsimmons is misleading. Kevin Goedker has politics in his blood and...
...was fair to say the current city council was a rubber stamp for department heads, brought divergent opinions. Candidates Bob Olson and Steve Wolff, who sided with Olson on several issues, believed it was to some extent. Candidates Mark O'Day...
...downtown parking and to televise the Brainerd City Council meetings. Taylor is campaigning with fellow at-large candidate Bob Olson. He said they agree on many issues and share a common belief: "Integrity in government, honesty on the council...
...increase in taxes." Sykes, a remodeling contractor who's running as part of a team with Brainerd at-large candidates Bob Olson and Mike Brusseau and Ward 1 candidate Robert Fitzsimmons, said the council should investigate city expenditures...