John Hoff aka Johnny Northside appears to be delivering his usual storm...of controversy, in N Minneapolis just as he has done while living in Seattle and Grand Forks. In Seattle, he was given a ticket for sitting on a sidewalk and appealed that all the way to the Washington state Court of Appeals and lost.
Click here to readabout that.
In North Dakota, he won a seat on the Grand Forks city council but, was removed just a few months later in a recall.
Click here to read about that.
Johnny Northside has seen some of his posts create some controversy in the last two years but, none of them compare to the storm that he is currently brewing by going after level 3 sex offenders and publishing their exact home address. John has been ranting on and on about how this information needs to be given special attention and the "slum of the slumlords" need to be contacted for "recruiting" these "sick puppies" to NoMi. He has had help from his girl friend, Megan Goodmundson with getting the word out.
One of Johnny's top friends, Jeff Skrenes has taken a step back away from him and has said that he doesn't agree with him on this one.
The Johnny Northside blog is intended to convert NoMi into an "urban utopia" as the blog header states. I am of the opinion that the blog has brought about some changes in the area but, it has also brought in a truck load of controversy as well.
Two weeks ago, John went all out against KSTP News for them wanting to do a story about a recent murder in the neighborhood. He claimed that doing such a thing only brings negative attention to the area and results in people not wanting to move to NoMi.
I can only shake my head and wonder what makes him think the way he does. If a young family is thinking about moving to north Minneapolis,
does he honestly think that giving all this negative attention to the high number of level 3 sex offenders in the area is going to HELP?
Simply reading the comments on his blog as well as the E-Democracy forum shows that his antics are upsetting a lot of people to the point of good citizens who were on the same team before with their efforts to improve the neighborhood, are now split because of his crusade against the sex offenders.
He is creating a storm that has the possibility of back-firing in very bad ways by harrassing sex offenders and recruiting other citizens to "get MAD" as his girl friend, Megan has said.
Well since John see's it as the resident's right to know where sex offenders live, I think the citizens have a right to know that Johnny Northside himself
has not paid his property taxes for 2008 OR 2009 as of today.
John is claiming a reason for outing the sex offenders is to protect "his" son but, he only has visitation rights with his son and according to the CURRENT court records, he has not paid his clild support as he had previously agreed to. John Hoff appears to be one step away from being a deadbeat dad who will have no visitation rights if the court sides with his ex-wife.
Click here for info & facts about non-payment of child support as well as past due property taxes.
All the sudden the picture above that shows John Hoff's face as Dr. Evil is not all that far fetched after all. John firmly believes the public has a right to know about the bad apples in his neighborhood so... The community has a right to know about a resident who has not paid taxes, child support or his court fees.
The Storm is just starting to pick up power and it won't be long before NoMi joins Seattle and Grand Forks as cities that have endured his storm of controversy.