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Why Is Everyone Running Against Godden?
Today's loser: City Council member Jean Godden.
Godden, as we've noted, now has four opponents in her race for reelection---more than any other council member up for reelection this year. (Bruce Harrell has one opponent, former Muni League head Brad Meacham, and Tim Burgess is being opposed by former football player Darryl Carter-Metcalf.)
Q: Why does Godden have such a large target on her back?
A: She's the only incumbent council member who hasn't hired political consultant Christian Sinderman and his firm Northwest Passage. Sinderman consults for Harrell, Burgess, Clark, and Rasmussen.
And so the game is rigged. With Sinderman's near-monopoly on local consulting, challengers' choices about who they run against are dictated more by Sinderman's business than by the actual agendas on the ground.
This could explain why Sinderman client Maurice Classen joined the anti-Godden pile-up rather than going after one of the others.
Godden, as we've noted, now has four opponents in her race for reelection---more than any other council member up for reelection this year. (Bruce Harrell has one opponent, former Muni League head Brad Meacham, and Tim Burgess is being opposed by former football player Darryl Carter-Metcalf.)
Q: Why does Godden have such a large target on her back?
A: She's the only incumbent council member who hasn't hired political consultant Christian Sinderman and his firm Northwest Passage. Sinderman consults for Harrell, Burgess, Clark, and Rasmussen.
And so the game is rigged. With Sinderman's near-monopoly on local consulting, challengers' choices about who they run against are dictated more by Sinderman's business than by the actual agendas on the ground.
This could explain why Sinderman client Maurice Classen joined the anti-Godden pile-up rather than going after one of the others.
