28 Facts About Cam Gordon

Cameron A Gordon was born on 1955 and is an American politician who was a Green Party member of the Minneapolis City Council from 2006 to 2022.

Cam Gordon graduated from Minneapolis's West High School in 1973.

Cam Gordon earned a BS in secondary education from the University of Minnesota College of Education, graduating with distinction in 1977.

Cam Gordon then attended the College of St Catherine, focusing on Montessori education and early childhood development.

Cam Gordon completed the primary level of the Montessori Teacher Certification Program in 1983 and the Prekindergarten Teaching Licensure Program in 1986.

Cam Gordon taught at Child Garden Montessori School from 1980 to 1984.

Cam Gordon was an associate editor of the newspaper Public School Montessorian.

Cam Gordon was a co-founder of the Green Party of Minnesota, which was established in two founding conventions held in February and June 1994.

In 1996, Cam Gordon was the Green Party candidate for District 62A seat in the Minnesota House of Representatives.

Cam Gordon was defeated by DFL candidate Paul Zerby by 108 votes.

Cam Gordon served on the policy board of the Minneapolis Neighborhood Revitalization Program.

On November 8,2005, Cam Gordon was elected to represent Ward 2 on the Minneapolis City Council, defeating DFLer Cara J Letofsky by 141 votes.

Cam Gordon was endorsed by the Green Party of Minnesota, of which he was a former state party chair.

Cam Gordon was re-elected against token opposition in 2009, in 2013, and in 2017.

Cam Gordon was only non-DFL member of the council, and was elected Minority Leader of the council in 2014.

Cam Gordon was one of two elected Green Party members in the Minneapolis municipal government along with Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board commissioner Annie Young until her death in 2018.

Cam Gordon partnered with the Minnesota Public Interest Research Group and students from the University of Minnesota to enact an ordinance in 2011 requiring commercial business owners in Stadium Village to recycle.

In 2013, Cam Gordon supported the construction of protected bike lanes on Minnehaha Avenue.

In 2014, Cam Gordon introduced an amendment to include electronic cigarettes in the Minneapolis smoking ban.

In 2015, Cam Gordon co-sponsored a resolution to repeal ordinances in Minneapolis against spitting and lurking.

Cam Gordon characterized the ordinances as a part of structural racism.

Later in 2015, alongside Congressman Keith Ellison and councilmembers Alondra Cano and Lisa Bender, Cam Gordon showed his solidarity with Black Lives Matter protesters demanding the release of the police video showing the shooting of Jamar Clark.

In March 2016, Cam Gordon opposed a $129 million renovation of the Target Center arena, citing a requirement in the city charter that a referendum should be held for investments in professional sports facilities of over $10 million.

In 2016, Cam Gordon supported a proposal before the City Council to place an amendment on the ballot to raise the minimum wage in Minneapolis to $15 an hour.

In 2016, Cam Gordon opposed a Minneapolis Public Housing Authority plan to tear down 184-unit Glendale Townhomes complex in southeast Minneapolis and replace them with a mixed-income development.

Also in 2016, Cam Gordon opposed a housing ordinance limiting the number of non-family members who may live within the same house.

Cam Gordon deemed the ordinance arbitrary and said that it prevented the expansion of cooperative housing.

Cam Gordon proposed allowing landlords the ability to designate a single property that they owned an intentional community.