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Mounds View City Council March 25, 2024 Regular Meeting Page 8 position. This is the most disgusting predatory behavior I have witnessed. It’s literally abusive at every level to a brand-new person who is seeking office. I have two handwritten letters that were given to candidate Clark written by John. The first one said: “I need names and contact info for Mounds View residents who would like to be quoted in a city- wide mailing along with their photo. Looking to recruit about 6–8 people.” (I call this recruitment.) Next, I quote, “I would do a sign just for you. Can be reused. Would do a 2x4 sign.” (I call this bribery.) “Can tie yourself to the yes vote by placing your sign next to the “vote yes” sign in supporters’ yards” (I call this influencing). This one is my personal favorite, and I quote, “Looking forward to the Nov 24 election, if you recruit two people to run in that election and ride this government-managed trash train to the ballot box, you could find yourself as the majority leader on the council, and you can run the place starting Jan 25 and overhaul the place." (I call this election interference and corruption.) He also sent an email to candidate Clark asking her to circulate a letter that their attorney sent the city to “her group.” To Haulers for Choice, Quite frankly, these are deplorable predatory activities, and they have absolutely no place in Mounds View with our residents and our candidates. Preying on a brand-new candidate like Julie for your own gain to influence our election is completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated in this city. To try to bribe her, get her to recruit for you, and leech on her hard work to build a group for your own gain is just plain disgusting. To be clear, Julie gave me and the city attorney the correspondence that you have been sending her. You have taken advantage of the fact that she is in an impossible situation with a ballot question looming, trying to manipulate her, and trying to influence her campaign for your own gain to steer the outcome of this election. You know that she cannot say anything for fear of you torpedoing her campaign and ending her dreams of serving this community. She may not be in a position to say something to you, but I am, and if you do not understand what that means, I will spell it out for you. Candidate Clark does not want to be a party to your activities, propaganda, or influence. I am going to respectfully ask you to cease and desist from all further communications with her and leave her alone. Just to shore it up for you again, this is not a good look for your organization or your clients. You may want to consider changing your name from Haulers for Choice to Haulers for Profits. In my opinion, it’s actually quite pathetic that you would stoop to this level of preying on a new candidate to try to achieve your desired outcome but given your history it fits your behavior pattern of “bullying and intimidation” going all the way back to the early 2000’s according to your own constituents. I know that you are going to try to find some people to run against us in the fall, and I hope that any resident of Mounds View will have the good sense to see just how disingenuous this whole scheme is and turn you down. I will also let you know that if those candidates emerge, I am ready and will be happy to make sure that this community knows exactly who they are attached to and exactly what you are about. I know Mounds View is better than this, and I know that this community will not stand for this kind of influence and corruption in our elections. If you are sick of these tactics and propaganda in our community, I would encourage all residents of Mounds View to kindly mail Garbage Haulers for Choice a cease-and-desist letter requesting no more mailing solicitations to their address at Po box 13738, Roseville, MN 55119. Mounds View, I will close with this and say that We want you to know that the easiest thing to do would have been to say nothing and just let this story play out like it has in city after city with haulers for choice