Bob's Bio and Bob on Important Issues
Bob was born in St. Louis and moved to Minneapolis when he was in grade school and except for a few years he has lived the majority of his life in Minneapolis. After 2 years of college he enlisted in the Marine Corps and served in-country in Vietnam and was honorably discharged with the rank of sergeant. He attended the University of Minnesota and graduated with a B.S. degree in civil engineering. He worked for the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency for 6 years after graduating. Since then he has worked for several engineering firms over the years. Bob retired at the end of 2023, but he is still active in politics and he owns a rental property near Duluth. Bob has been an election judge in Minneapolis and Richfield since 2008, serving as head judge in his precinct for several primary elections and assistant head judge for most general elections. Bob is involved in local politics and currently serves on several Committees and was a strong supporter of Chris Fields, Doug Daggett, Lacy Johnson, Cicely Davis, and Dalia al-Aqidi all who ran for Congress in the 5 th Congressional District in different elections, and also Karin Housley who ran for the U.S. Senate and Jeff Johnson and Scott Jensen who ran for Governor. Bob ran for the Minneapolis Park Board and ran twice for the Minneapolis City Council. Bob also ran for the State House in District 62B in 2024. He has also supported several candidates for the State House and State Senate who ran in his Senate District 62. BOB EXPLAINS RANKED-CHOICE VOTING Minneapolis has ranked choice voting in the City elections. So the ballot will ask you to pick up to 3 candidates and rank them as first, second, and third choices. Voters are free to pick just one candidate, or two candidates, or three candidates and rank them accordingly. For the 8th Ward City Council race, which is the ward that you are voting in, I am recommending the following choices, first choice: Bob Sullentrop, second choice: Josh Bassis. I am not recommending a third choice in this race. For the mayoral election I am recommending the following choices, first choice: Laverne Turner, second choice: Jazz Hampton, and 3rd choice: DeWayne Davis. The way this works is that if your first choice is eliminated due to insufficient votes , your vote goes to your second choice and if your second choice gets eliminated it will go to your third choice. Note that you are not required to name second or third choices, but if you don’t then once your first choice is eliminated your vote no longer counts. ISSUES Bob is very concerned about the number of candidates running in the Minneapolis election this year who are Democratic Socialists. These include Soren Stevenson, who is the endorsed Democratic candidate for the City Council in the 8 th Ward and Omar Fateh who is running for mayor. Omar Fateh is currently the elected State Senator for Senate District 62. It is Bob’s belief that Democratic Socialists are extremely radical Democrats and at least some of them are indistinguishable from communists. New York City’s leading candidate for the mayor of that city is a Democratic Socialist and he wants to do away with private ownership of property, the police, and prisons. Should the Democratic Socialists win the majority in the Minneapolis City Council and also the Mayor’s office .we could expect that they would at least try to defund the police and raise our taxes to support give away Socialist programs. They could also be expected to raise the maximum amount for a petty misdemeanor to $1000, or higher, and then not prosecute petty misdemeanor offenders. In other cities this has resulted in legalized shoplifting and this practice has caused at least some retailers to move out of major cities. Also, in some cities which includes Minneapolis, underage offenders charged with felonies as serious as murder, were given a slap on the wrist, put on probation, and sent to counseling. In Minneapolis, however, this practice was due to the County Prosecutor, who is retiring before her term is over. Bob has teamed up this year with Laverne Turner, who is running for mayor. Bob teamed up with Laverne in the last mayoral election, as well. Both Bob and Laverne’s major issues in this election are high crime rates and not enough police. If you are interested in returning Minneapolis to a law abiding well-run city where you don’t have to worry about being a crime victim, then vote for Bob Sullentrop for the City Council and Laverne Turner for mayor in the upcoming election. The following is an excerpt from a Wikipedia article: “While having socialism as a long-term goal, some moderate democratic socialists are more concerned about curbing capitalism's excesses and are supportive of progressive reforms to humanize it in the present day. In contrast, other democratic socialists believe that economic interventionism and similar policy reforms aimed at addressing social inequalities and suppressing capitalism's economic contradictions can simply exacerbate them or cause them to emerge under a different guise. Those democratic socialists believe that the fundamental issues with capitalism can only be resolved by revolutionary means of replacing the capitalist mode of production with the socialist mode of production through a replacement of private ownership with collective ownership of the means of production and extending democracy to the economic sphere in the form of workplace democracy or industrial democracy. The main criticism of democratic socialism from the perspective of liberal democrats is focused on the compatibility of democracy and socialism, while Marxist–Leninist criticisms are focused on the feasibility of achieving a socialist or communist society through democratic means or without suppressing counter- revolutionary forces. Several academics, political commentators, and scholars have noted that some Western countries, such as France, Sweden and the United Kingdom, have been governed by socialist parties or have social democratic mixed economies sometimes referred to as "ed as democratic socialist. However, some have argued that following the end of the Cold War, many of these countries have moved away from socialism as a neoliberal consensus replaced the social democratic consensus in the advanced capitalist world.”
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