Gary Schiff

Quick Facts

Full Name	Gary Schiff
Occupation	Activist
Date Of Birth	Feb 3, 1972(1972-02-03)
Age	52
Birthplace	Youngstown
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Aquarius

Gary Schiff Biography

Gary Schiff is one of the most popular and richest Activist who was born on February 3, 1972 in Youngstown, New York, United States. Schiff was born Gary J. Schiffhauer on the 3rd of February 1972 and was being the youngest child of 6 living in Western New York State. In 1990 it was the American Civil Liberties Union represented Schiff following his graduation in Lewiston-Porter High School in his hometown of Youngstown, New York. In the words of The Buffalo News, Schiff was the artist who painted a mural in the school’s staircase that referred to “drugs, safe sex, AIDS and racism” in the style of the artist Keith Haring. In September that year, the superintendent of the school, Walter S. Polka was able to decide that certain parts of the text on the mural were unsuitable. It was the American Civil Liberties Union became involved in a lengthy legal dispute regarding the constitutionality of Polka’s censorship along with an New York Supreme Court Justice was in agreement against the Lewiston-Porter School Board. In 1991 the school board decided 5-1 to erase the mural. The board pointed to Schiff’s participation in the recent ACT-UP protest at the school, where demonstrators handed out condoms as well as safe sex books to students — as the primary factor in the decision.

From 1993 until 1995 Schiff was the director of from 1993 to 1995, Schiff directed the Progressive Student Leadership Exchange (PLSE) the program that was inspired by that of the civil rights movement’s Freedom Summer. In 1995, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) was interested in the program and offered Schiff to lead it in the new “Youth College for Campaign Training” located in Washington, D.C. The program, which was funded by HRC, invited students between the ages of 18-24 to attend seminars, and sent students on trips to “target states” where they were part of groups as campaign staff members. The program was running as late as the year 2006.

In 1997, before he became a member of the city council, Schiff co-authored an amendment to the City of Minneapolis Charter that mandated a voter referendum on city stadium subsidies that cost taxpayers over $10 million. As of 2009, the Minnesota Vikings were moving forward on a $870 million plan to rebuild a downtown stadium on the site of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The team also considered building a new stadium in other cities, including Anoka, Minnesota and Los Angeles, California. Though supportive of the Vikings remaining in Minneapolis in 2012, Schiff became an outspoken critic of the financing plan for the stadium when it came to a vote before the Minneapolis City Council, in part because it bypassed the charter amendment. Schiff also argued that the plan’s estimated cost to Minneapolis taxpayers, cited at $150 million in construction costs, failed to account for interest, maintenance costs, and upgrades over the course of the stadium’s expected 30-year lifespan. In a Star Tribune editorial, Schiff quoted figures presented by the city’s chief financial officer, Kevin Carpenter, which estimated a cumulative, 30-year cost that could range from $675 million to $890 million. Despite Schiff’s objections, the Minneapolis City Council approved the stadium financing 7-6. Subsequently, the football team moved forward with plans to demolish the Metrodome and rebuild a new stadium on the site, and Governor Mark Dayton signed a financing plan approved by the legislature.

Schiff, at the time working as a teaching assistant in the University of Minnesota’s Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs on his way to earning a master’s degree in urban planning, took a leave of absence to run for a seat on the Minneapolis City Council against Michael Guest and Kathy Thurber in

2001. He won unanimous DFL endorsement on September 11, 2001 and, in a race that was overshadowed by the 2001 terrorist attacks, he ran against Lucky Rosenbloom, an African-American Republican. Schiff received the endorsement of the Star Tribune, which noted his “first-hand knowledge” of light rail systems in other U.S. cities. Elected by a large majority in November 2001, Schiff became one of seven newly elected members on the 13-member city council, joining two Green Party members, two other openly gay council members, one African-American council member, and four women. He was sworn into office on December 17, 2001, earlier than his fellow councilmembers, when Thurber resigned from her seat to assume the position of deputy director of Perpich Center for Arts Education.

As part of the transition that involved moving to Youngstown to Minneapolis to go to school at the University of Minnesota, Schiff changed his name to the original Schiffhauer , as due to their shame as well as inability to admit his sexuality within the small city in Youngstown NY where the family went to church in a conservative Roman Catholic Parish (St. Bernard’s, Youngstown, NY). But, Robert as well as Rita Schiffhauer who were Gary’s parents became members of his PFLAG Chapter in nearby Buffalo, NY in order to know and be supportive of their son. This they did all through their life. Schiff’s public statement states that he changed his name to erase his memories of bullying which was, he claimed “an act of survival”. In the month of October, 1992, he along with 6 other university students protested against the reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) and its compliance with the long-standing prohibition on homosexuals entering the military. The seven protesters disrupted the meeting with the University Board of Regents, and demanded the removal members of the ROTC from the campus and were cuffed to the Regents chairs. They wore signs that read “$old,” suggesting that their rights were exchanged to obtain Federal grant funds, Schiff and the six other students were detained at the hands of University Police and each charged with misdemeanors.

Gary Schiff Net Worth

Gary Schiff is one of the richest Activist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gary Schiff 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Gary Schiff (born February 3 1972, alias Gary J. Schiffhauer) is an American politician and activist who was elected Ward 9 on the Minneapolis City Council. A member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), he was first elected in 2001 and re-elected in 2005 and 2009. In the past, Schiff was involved with various organizations and causes that ranged from human rights through the Human Rights Campaign, to the preservation of historic sites with Save Our Shubert.

Also, the city strictly controlled non-motorized pedicabs. It first allowed bicycle-powered taxis in 1984 however, there was no pedicab permits in the city as of the year 2008. Schiff suggested removing certain restrictions. In addition, the city council passed an ordinance allowing pedicabs to be operating in downtown streets, on bridges that connect downtown, as well as at the Nicollet Mall, at any timing, excluding peak hours of the morning and evening. In the month of October, 2011 when the city allowed taxis to run during rush hour (with new safety rules) 8 licensed pedicab businesses operated forty cabs within the downtown region.

After graduating in 1994 with a B.A. in women’s studies, Schiff moved to Washington, D.C. to work with the Human Rights Campaign. He returned to Minneapolis to work with Progressive Minnesota, “a grassroots group focused on community organizing and electoral politics.” In December 1997, he became involved in a fight to save the Shubert Theater, a former vaudeville house on “Block E” in downtown Minneapolis, after the Minneapolis City Council approved a redevelopment plan that called for the theater’s demolition. Within days, Schiff organized “Save Our Shubert,” a grassroots effort to preserve the theater. After eight months, during which time Save our Shubert acted as a media contact, lobbied the city council, and “kept the Shubert in the public eye”, the Minneapolis City Council voted 9-3 to move the theater to a space adjacent to the Hennepin Center for the Arts at a cost of $3.9 million.

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An avid supporter of microbrewing in Minneapolis, Schiff sponsored the “Brew Beer Here” ordinance that allowed the sale of 64-ounce “growlers” of beer on Minneapolis brewery premises. Passed in August 2010, the ordinance facilitated brewery operation within Minneapolis city limits and led to the opening of Harriet Brewing Company, the first Minneapolis brewery to open in decades. With colleague Elizabeth Gidden, Schiff co-sponsored the “Surly Bill,” an ordinance that permits breweries to sell pints of their products on-site. Schiff also proposed eliminating zoning constraints against establishments serving alcohol within 300 feet of a house of worship outside of the downtown area. The ordinance change was inspired by a struggle between Rob Miller, a brewer interested in opening a “pico brewery” called Dangerous Man Brewing in Northeast Minneapolis, and the church of Saints Cyril and Methodius Church, located across the street from the brewery’s proposed location. Citing his work to ease ordinances prohibitive to the microbrewing industry, Twin Cities Business named Schiff the most business-friendly city councilor in Minneapolis in 2012.

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Schiff had been considering running for mayor of Minneapolis in the 2013 Minneapolis mayoral election as early as June 2012, and stated that his ultimate decision would not be contingent upon whether mayor R.T. Rybak opted to run for another term. Speaking from the Harriet Brewing tap room on January 29, 2013, Schiff announced his official candidacy for the position. On the same day, he also held an event in the Dinkytown area near the University of Minnesota with rapper Brother Ali to kick off his campaign. Schiff was the second City Councilmember to announce his candidacy after Betsy Hodges of Ward 13, and Don Samuels of Ward 5 announced his candidacy later.