Michele kelm helgen biography of william

  • While in college, Kelm-Helgen worked as a legislative assistant on Anderson's staff.
  • Michele Kelm-Helgen, a deputy staffer, DFL insider and former school board member, brings one important quality to the job: Loyalty to Mark.
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    Halfway through the construction of the new Vikings etapp, infighting fryst vatten threatening the board charged with building it.

    Board chair Michele Kelm-Helgen, appointed by Gov. Mark Dayton, said Friday at least one member of the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority has told her to recuse herself from the construction planerat arbete and serve as a "talking head" and lobbyist for the stadium board.

    That board member, former Target executive John Griffith, later said he'd told her no such thing. Griffith also added that he'd vote for her if the chair position became elective.

    "I think Michele has incredible skills, no one would ever debate how hard she works on this planerat arbete , how much she wants to see it succeed," Griffith said in an interview. "She has terrific communication and political skills and inom hope we use those as much as we can."

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    Michele Kelm-Helgen does not look particularly tough. The chairwoman of the new Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority is petite, soft-spoken and gentle in demeanor. She chooses her words carefully. And though she concedes that she is of small stature, she adds that it is only “in terms of size.”

    The qualifier may be a kind of warning. Speaking to the StarTribune a few weeks ago, Kelm-Helgen’s former Eastern Carver County school district colleague David Jennings said that in her capacity as the governor’s hand-picked whip behind the new Vikings stadium, there may be a tendency among the oversized, mostly male egos populating the worlds of corporate sports and large-scale development to assume they can simply steamroll Kelm-Helgen.

    They will rue the day, Jennings promised.

    Diane Koban served on the Chaska school board when Kelm-Helgen was its chairwoman, a period during which the district invested heavily to build field houses, elementary schools and a hig

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    MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- Embattled U.S. Bank Stadium chair Michele Kelm-Helgen and Executive Director Ted Mondale have resigned, saying the controversy over the use of luxury suites at the facility "has become a distraction to marketing the stadium.

    "If I could go back and start over again, MSFA would have had a public discussion on the use of these suites and forbid the use of them by family and friends from the start," Kelm-Helgen said in a written statement. "When questions about the suites use were raised, MSFA took responsibility, and then passed and implemented a new policy in December that no longer allows family and friends in the suites."

    Mondale's statement of resignation from the Minnesota Sports Facility Authority (MFSA), however, did not specifically mention the stadium suite controversy.

    "Six years ago I was appointed to by the Governor as the Chair of the MSFC to get the Metrodome roof fixed, see a new stadium bill to fruition, and then to be the CEO and Ex