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It’s tempting to suggest there’s irony in the fact that Wendy Wulff, a member of the Lakeville City Council, has spent the last three years fighting Minneapolis City Hall. But it was a successful fight with Lakeville city government over the placement of a Kwik Trip too close to her house that thrust Wulff into public life several years ago.

Her activism prompted the city to name her a member of the Lakeville Planning Commission.

Finding that she had a knack for public policy and governing, the freelance Web site designer served on the Planning Commission, ran successfully for city council a few times and is frequently mentioned about town as a candidate for mayor. Up to her ears in duties related to her home-based business, her city-council job and the challenges of raising three boys, she found herself returning to her role as activist when her husband, Dan, was injured in a traumatic accident.

Because of her tenacity and support from a state legislator, Wendy Wullf and her family were rewarded last month with legislation, signed by Gov. Tim Pawlenty, that increases Dan’s disability pension from 60 percent of his former salary as a Minneapolis cop to 75 percent.

“We can make it now,”