Word: stenvig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Minneapolis too the hard-nosed cop image seemed to lose its appeal. It was personified in that city by Charles Stenvig, a policeman who won three two-year terms as mayor, the most recent in 1975. He tried for a fourth last week, distributing one pamphlet in which he was pictured wrapped in the American flag...
Minneapolis: Albert Hofstede, 37, of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, and Charles Stenvig, 49, an independent conservative, are playing a game of musical mayors. Hofstede defeated Stenvig in 1973, then Stenvig ousted Hofstede in 1975, and now Hofstede has won again. A liberal who managed Hubert Humphrey's last Senate bid, he outcampaigned Stenvig-and outspent him 5 to 1. Stenvig's parting shot in a game that may not have ended: "I have only one last word of advice to the taxpayers of Minneapolis: Watch your wallets...
...jail for income tax evasion (New York City Councilman Matthew Troy). Some lost elections-but are doing well in other pursuits (Tennessee Republican Lamar Alexander, who lost the 1974 gubernatorial race to Democrat Ray Blanton, is now a television commentator; Minneapolis Mayor Albert Hofstede, edged out by Charles Stenvig in 1975, is a bank vice president...
With 219 precincts reporting, Stenvig had 45,065 votes and Hofstede...
...Stenvig, who was mayor from 1969 until he lost to Hofstede in 1971, based his barely successful campaign on opposition to crime, increased property taxes and Hofstede's recent 28-per-cent increase in his own salary, to $29,000 a year...