Here is Mayor Frey's bio from Wikipedia.
My suggestion to Noem is don't fuck with this guy. Anyone who runs marathon in 2:16 is afraid of nothing. (My best time was 3:45 and that was a LOOOOONG time ago. The marathon is 26.3 miles -- today I'd do well to drive that distance in an hour.)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Frey
Frey was born in Arlington County, Virginia,[6] to a Jewish family. He grew up in nearby Oakton, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C., where his parents, Christopher and Jamie (nee' Goldstein)[7] Frey[8] were professional modern ballet dancers. His mother is of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry, and his father converted to Judaism.[9][10]
Frey attended the College of William and Mary after graduating from high school, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2004.[11][12] While attending, he was a distance runner on the track and field team and all-Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) cross-country runner. He competed at the 2002 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships.[13][14] Frey won the 2002 CAA 5,000-meter title in track.[14]
Career
After graduating from college, Frey received a contract from a shoe company to run professionally. He ran in several marathons across the country and competed for Team USA in the 2007 Pan American Games marathon, finishing in fourth place and with his personal best marathon time of 2:16:44.[15][16][17]
Frey moved to Minneapolis in 2009 after graduating cum laude from the Villanova University School of Law and joined the law firm Faegre & Benson to practice employment discrimination and civil rights law before moving on to the law firm Halunen & Associates.[18][19][20][21] Frey gave his graduating class's commencement speech.[11]
In late 2011, Frey ran in a special election for an open state senate seat and came in fifth in the party primary, ahead only of someone who had dropped out of the race.[22]
In 2012, Frey founded and organized the first Big Gay Race, a 5K charity race to raise money for Minnesotans United for All Families, a political group organizing for marriage equality.[23]
Frey being sworn in as mayor
Frey ran in the 2013 Minneapolis City Council election to represent Ward 3. He received the Democratic–Farmer–Labor endorsement, as well as endorsements from more than 40 elected officials and organizations.[24] His platform promised better constituent services,[24] to spur residential development,[24] increase the number and variety of small and local businesses, push for full funding of affordable housing, and address climate change. He defeated incumbent Diane Hofstede with more than 60% of the vote and took office on January 2, 2014. He served one term on the Minneapolis City Council before becoming mayor.
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